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Hiram Grange and the Digital Eucharist (The Scandalous Misadventures of Hiram Grange, Book #3, Vol. 1)

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The book starts fast and never lets up momentum. Davies' writing style is engaging, with the perfect amount of description and action. The plot pulls you from chapter to chapter, just as any good book should. I love Hiram Grange, and this is a fantastic addition to the series.

Jason M. Tucker
Author of Meat City & Other Stories

Hiram Grange returns in this third installment and meets all my dark expectations. In this story, Hiram struggles with his own haunted past and the twisted machinations of abyssal science. Author Rob Davies is a creative and fast-pace writer who knows his occult lore and Boston well. I enjoyed the novella through and through.

Digital Eucharist begins with a glimpse into one of Hiram's past battles, against a demon, alongside two gris-gris practitioners. We then meet up with modern-day Hiram, months after the death of his beloved Sadie (ooops...SPOILER ALERT! But seriously, a pox on you if you're reading this review and haven't read the first two books). Grange not only has to deal with the emptiness and guilt he's feeling over Sadie, but also with the sins he committed during the course of the aforementioned demon fight. Whether he can do this while fighting said demon again while thwarting an evil cult's new mind-control technology is the question.

Hiram Grange and the Digital Eucharist and Hiram Grange and the Chosen One share an underlying theme, moreso that any other pairing of Hiram Grange books. What makes this even more of an accomplishment is that it was effected not by one author, but by two: Robert Davies and Kevin Lucia respectively.

The best things about these books, in my humble opinion, is that Hiram actually grows with every book. People important to the story line really are mere mortals. And Hiram, as deserving of contempt as he can sometimes be, manages to shine through as a hero, reluctant or otherwise, in the end. He may even have a chance at redemption someday, or at least a lesser degree of damnation.

This book is the third in a series following "the scandalous misadventures of Hiram Grange." I was told that you do not need to read the books in order to understand them, and since this was the first book in the series that I have read, I can tell you that I had no problem understanding the plot or the characters. The book was an interesting read. The narrative moved along quickly, and like Hiram, I did not know what to expect around the next corner. The story jumped around like a chicken with its head freshly cut off. The story was frightening at times with vivid images reminiscent of a horror movie but would switch to a riveting tale more closely associated to a techno-thriller. The main character's appearance and drug use gave the book a sleazy, back alley, private detective feel to it. These different features meld together nicely to paint a bleak picture of a decaying urban jungle that is Hiram's world. Add a few demons and some power crazed mortals and you're in for one hell of a ride!