Customer Reviews

Johnny, the Mark of Chaos: An Urban Dark Fantasy (Tazmark Dark Fantasy/Horror Series)

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This story was a unique perspective on good and evil with alot of great mystery, humor, and romance, and good magic too. I really enjoyed it. :)

This is one of the best dark fantasy books I have ever read. Very scary. The mystery slowly unfolds with an incredible amount of depth. The dark psychology of human nature, and the chaotic side of life are featured in a stunning fashion, and interestingly reveal powerful insights about natural law and the balanced design of life itself. This is also a fascinating read for any who have had scary or harsh life experiences. There is a lot of mystery, romance, and even humor folded into the fabric of this story. Hard to put down!

The idea is refreshing and original. The characters are well developed. An absorbing read.
My only question is: how could johnny be of Spanish and Chilean blood, be called Juan, and been born in 1099?
Anyway, I highly recommend this book.

This book was great. I read the whole thing in one night I could'nt break away from it. I loved the characters and the story plot(specially Johnny ). I cant wait to get the second one!

I bought this book on a whim looking for something new. In my opinion, this book is basically a romance novel with some elements of sci-fi/fantasy sprinkled on it (don't get confused into thinking this is anything like a horror or really even a dark book). A love story was not what I was looking for but I still found it to be a good read for a few reasons.

The viewpoint is through the eyes of a woman deeply religious, chained down by her fears. I thought seeing things through her eyes was an interesting twist, at least for anything I've read before. There are some occasionaly moments of spirituality (not in the religious sense) and self-awareness by her that keep her view point from becoming boring. This is really the only piece outside of the romance that gets any time in this book. But a much more original character is johnny. To be honest, his character is more interesting and mysterious and I wish the story had been told through his eyes (or even another story completely through his eyes). His character really has a lot of possibility for a great story and I think if he was the narrator, this would have been a better book.
There are some things I don't like about the book also. I almost put the book down after the first chapter due to its complete lack of detail what-so-ever and rediculous voice/style that made the book feel like a childrens novel. Luckily, the writing gets better as the pages progress. Another thing I did not like is the whole book pretty much centers around these two characters and how they develope while the plot around them feels like it is thrown in just to fill in gaps or get from point a to b. I think more time should have been put into plot developement. It is about 300 pages with relatively large print so basically all of that time is focused on the love story. In fact, the whole background surrounding johnny starts to feel cheesy by the end of the book because so little is revealed about it that you just have to accept that it doesn't really make sense.

Rarely does this book steer into territory outside of a love story. It has a few moments of "dark" fantasy and drama but don't expect that to be the focus of the book. Take a look at it if you are just looking for an entertaining and quick read.

Fist book of johnny mark of Chaos series. Written in Jen's Point of View, causing most of my annoyance with the character. A very young and naive girl, that just doesn't seem to be able to breakout of her narrow minded little world, however much experience she lives through in her past or present lives. johnny spends most of the book attempting to break her out of her self-imposed cell. Without giving too much away, johnny ends up evolving. If you read and somewhat enjoy this one, you will definitely want to read the follow-up, which has a better story, action, POV, and conclusion than the first.

Overall, this is book is very well written, but the charters are bit annoying. I hope to read more from her in the future.

I usually do not post reviews of books, but this book struck me so much, I just had to! The characters in this book have so much depth to them. Susan Kalior is an amazing author with such insight. It is a great book which shows us that everything is not as black and white as we may believe it to be. If you love horror, romance, fantasy, suspense...it has it and you will not be let down after reading it. I read it in 24 hours! I couldn't put it down!

This is a very well written book with lots of depth and twists in the plot. Susan Kalior captures so many different aspects of life in this book. I would recommend this to anyone to read. She's a tremendous writer and this is a book that you won't want to put down.

I returned this book. It is intolerable and ridiculous. Basically, her best friend (who she trusts more than anyone) sends her off in a taxi to the "worst section of NYC" where she is dropped off by the taxi driver before she reaches her destination and then is almost raped by some guy who rescues her from some other would be rogues...oh c'mon! And then she meets the man of her greatest desire... that's as far as I got before I returned this book. Do not waste your money! On a positive note, this author can write- I just wish she would write something worth reading.