– Customer review on 11/08/2011

No one buys these books thinking that they'll be reading a master piece. It might happen, but when it does, its a pleasant surprise. On the other end of the spectrum, however, I do not expect to buy a book and find myself skipping whole chapters out of pure boredom. I bought a tie-in novel on the Supernatural series-world. As a TV series where the main characters are Sam and Dean, I would've thought that they would be the center of the story. Instead, I find myself realizing that those characters are being used in this book as crutches, a useless partition curtain in between the real plot, happening in 1969 and 1989, a mere smoke screen as the author uses this fandom to pimp out his 'original' characters, who, honestly, come out as two dimensional and flat as a piece of paper. And yes, there is a whole chapter on the Campbells (Mary Winchester's parents) and a whole chapter on John hunting on his own (is Bobby really that loaded that he buys hunters he knows plane tickets to go on hunts? What is he? The head of some hunter mafia network?) but the two characters that were suppose to actually DO something and earn this book the right to be called a Supernatural tie-in novel, are almost absent from the 'plot'.

So, seriously? Worst waste of money I ever spent on books.