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Cardinal's Sin: Psychic Defenders Uncover Evil in the Vatican (The Committee)

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Hey, when one of the nations top authorities on Witchcraft sits down to write a novel, it results in an awesome story with true-to-life characters. If only Buckland had been consulted when writing the movie "the Craft" maybe then that movie would have turned out great. No matter, this book is an awesome story. The second book about the commitee, it deals with a black magician in the vatican causing weather problems in the good old U.S. of A., and when the Committee gets called in, its time for a realistic no-holds-barred struggle between the forces of good and evil.

Like "The Committee," Buckland's novel keeps you wanting more. He obviously did some research on the Vatican and found a way to weave it into the story line. His two main characters, I feel, are well-developed, but the others need a little more depth. His writing is a little spare, but, hey, Hemingway got away with it, so why not. Looking forward to developments in later novels.

I got this looking for some quality occult fiction the king I found in Aleister Crowley and to a lesser extent Silver Ravenwolf. I thought it was a good book with a cool dak side cover artwork, but I found the plot of a group of psuedo heroes avenging a rapist to be buried beneath a premise of genuine occult things. I guess it is worth the kind of low price you'd expect from a mass market paperback format. I thought it had some suspense especially with the satanists involved. Occult fiction is one of those unique sub genres- you'll either love it or hate it.

Yet another attempt to get into another genre of the writing world. Too bad you didn't advise all the readers of all your past works about the fiction in them. Most of us in the Craft know about your ability to sound valid and this is yet another stunt to show that you have talent in the writing field. New Flash: YOU DON'T. Maybe a biography of you might be a good idea for one of the many of us who have known of your bookwriting episodes. Wouldn't it be fun for a tell-all book about Buckland to come out? Bet it would be better than this one!