The Blue Blazes Mookie Pearl Book 1 eBook Chuck Wendig
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Meet Mookie Pearl.
Criminal underworld? He runs in it.
Supernatural underworld? He hunts in it.
Nothing stops Mookie when he's on the job.
But when his daughter takes up arms and opposes him, something's gotta give...
The Blue Blazes Mookie Pearl Book 1 eBook Chuck Wendig
Chuck Wendig is always an author that you can count on to tell an incredible, intelligent and truly unique, but also twisted tale that tends toward dark humor with a bit of self destructiveness on the side. His imagination is fabulously prodigious, as his characters resemble none that you will find in other novels, and his plots don't look anything like a typical plot you would find in today's writing. Wendig surely is one of a kind, and I mean that in the best of ways. In this novel, he has created a unique, wild, paranormal mob thriller ( like genre cross dressing ) who would think those three things would go together? Wendig makes it work so well, that the three together seem natural, almost organic under his expert hand. Maybe it will be the next big thing?The Blue Blazes has so many positive reviews I won't bore everyone with another plot summary. Mookie Pearl is in the mob in N.Y. City. He runs the crew that harvests Blue Blaze, the drug found in the Great Below that allows people to open their third eye's, amongst other things. His daughter, wanting to compete with his boss, poisons Mookie in the first few pages, but not enough to kill him...and we're off to the races.
Wendig created an entire Great Below N.Y., with history, rules and natural laws, a cartographer, God's, creatures, lost souls, hybrids, magic, myths, religions, sacrifices, shapeshifters, flora and fauna, geology, strata, topography, towns, sacred substances, insects, soul suckers, temples and villages of the dead. It was amazing the detail that he went to considering most of the book occurred on the streets, but that is one hallmark of a CW book.
This story is like a mine car with no brakes, just like in the Indiana Jones movie, where it was zipping around at huge speed, jumping gaps in the track while twisting to the left and right unexpectedly to avoid pillars of rock. It looks like Mookie, his daughter Nora, and all N.Y.C. is headed for a major pileup.
Mookie is muscle as well as running blaze crews for the mob, so there is a considerable amount of beat downs in this novel. The body count is considerable. Most of the things he takes on are not human as they are from the Great Below. He does very little human killing. He does wreak havoc almost everywhere he goes, with a very few exceptions. Even though Mookie goes through gobbos, snakemen, and others from below, he really loves his daughter, and tries his best to keep her safe. He is a simple, faithful, loyal guy, who will be more than happy to protect you if you shoot straight with him. He is not a complicated man, but ends up being a guy that I was definitely pulling for. Nora is angry at Mookie for how he treated her, and her Mother. She is a young adult, so payback is what she wants. She is the one that has the book smarts in the family, but emotionally, she is fixated on the fact that she didn't get enough attention from her Father. What will it cost her to get what she wants? That question drives some of the action in the novel. The other characters in the story, even the secondary characters like Burnsy, Skelly, Candlefly, the Boss, Haversham, Mr. Smiley and Wertz were all well characterized with backstories, descriptions, quirks, foibles and their own unique dialogue. Each was a striking individual, and while they all weren't human, they could all appear to be, and act like it as well. Masterclass characterization overall.
The plot started out diverting you in one direction, but soon, things will happen at pivotal points in the book that change the scope of the novel and the size of the problem Mookie encounters. Wendig is a great one for ratcheting up the tension through his story arcs, and he does a fabulous job ratcheting up the tension at each of those pivotal points until you are dying to know what happens next - keeping you flipping the pages as fast as you can read. At one point, it looks like Mookie, and/or Nora are done for. You will have to read to find out what happens.
The ending is bittersweet. It was the best ending for the book, but my heart broke over Jess. That was sad, but so enlightening. The last part with Kelly was the sweet part, and was richly deserved. Awesome way to end the most creative, wild,paranormal mob thriller I've ever read. So Highly Recommended, that I can't recommend it enough!
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The Blue Blazes Mookie Pearl Book 1 eBook Chuck Wendig Reviews
Not my favorite Wendig outing, but as always, the man will take you, gentle reader, on a damn good ride. Think of this as a mash-up of Gangs of New York, Legion, and a hallucinogenic Raiders of the Lost Ark. Took me a little longer than usual to get sucked into this story, but once it got hold of me, it didn't let go. Demons from the underworld have gained entry into our world and coexist (mostly in the marginal and shady areas of societ); but of course the bigger and badder guys want more. Mookie is an "enforcer" (for lack of a better word); with an estranged daughter who has criminal aspirations of her own. The Boss is dying; and a new regime will be coming. ("Meet the new Boss; same as the old Boss"....that is stuck in my head). Unless Mookie can find the maybe mythical drug from the underworld that will cheat death. But Nora (the daughter) has other plans, and seeing as Chuck Wendig wrote this nothing is going to happen easily, prettily, or logically.
Mookie Pearl has been working for the Organization for most of his adult life. When his boss reveals he has terminal cancer, who should show up just in time to exploit that than Mookie's own daughter? And who is the mysterious Candlefly that has shown up to help The Boss in his hour of need? And what do the creatures of the Underworld have to say about the situation?
It's hard to summarize a novel that packs so many great ideas between two covers. The easiest way I can think of to pitch The Blue Blazes to people is to say "Neverwhere Noir."
The Blue Blazes is the latest of Chuck Wendig's innovative urban fantasies. The main character, Mookie Pearl, is a thick-headed mountain of a man working for the Organization, the criminal syndicate that controls NYC at street level. Below the streets is another story entirely, for that is the Underworld, the territory of Gobbos, Roach-Rats, Snakefaces, and things a thousand times worse.
The Blue Blazes of the title is the street name for a drug that lets the user see beneath the veil, revealing half and halfs and other mystical creatures for what they are. It goes a long way toward explaining the usual urban fantasy conceit of monsters living among us more or less undetected.
This isn't your grandmother's urban fantasy. Instead of lightly flirting with the hardboiled noir genre, The Blue Blazes has it's way with it hard and rough in a filthy alley. Mookie's no white knight. He's a thug and a murderer and does what he has to do. He actually reminds me of Richard Stark's Parker, only with more muscles and much less brain. The conflict between Mookie and Nora is what keeps the book rocketing forward, even when everyone's having a chat.
The situation looks like one of the standard criminal fiction plots at first the boss is going down and a lot of people are wondering who is going to fill the void. Will it be Nora, Mookie's estranged daughter? Will it be the Boss's grandson? Will it be Candlefly?
The mythology of the world Wendig has created is unique there are no vampires, werewolves, or women wanting to have sex with vampires or werewolves. There are cities of the dead in the Underworld but they aren't populated by zombies. I love the concept of the pigments and the powers they confer. I could go on for paragraphs about the Hungry Ones, the Naga, the gangs, soul cages, etc.
Mookie muscles his way through the plot like a meat-cleaver-wielding battering ram. Much like the fabled Timex, he takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. By the time the Blue Blazes was over, I was simultaneously dismayed that the journey was completed but also somehow relieved.
4.5 stars. I want more Mookie!
Chuck Wendig is always an author that you can count on to tell an incredible, intelligent and truly unique, but also twisted tale that tends toward dark humor with a bit of self destructiveness on the side. His imagination is fabulously prodigious, as his characters resemble none that you will find in other novels, and his plots don't look anything like a typical plot you would find in today's writing. Wendig surely is one of a kind, and I mean that in the best of ways. In this novel, he has created a unique, wild, paranormal mob thriller ( like genre cross dressing ) who would think those three things would go together? Wendig makes it work so well, that the three together seem natural, almost organic under his expert hand. Maybe it will be the next big thing?
The Blue Blazes has so many positive reviews I won't bore everyone with another plot summary. Mookie Pearl is in the mob in N.Y. City. He runs the crew that harvests Blue Blaze, the drug found in the Great Below that allows people to open their third eye's, amongst other things. His daughter, wanting to compete with his boss, poisons Mookie in the first few pages, but not enough to kill him...and we're off to the races.
Wendig created an entire Great Below N.Y., with history, rules and natural laws, a cartographer, God's, creatures, lost souls, hybrids, magic, myths, religions, sacrifices, shapeshifters, flora and fauna, geology, strata, topography, towns, sacred substances, insects, soul suckers, temples and villages of the dead. It was amazing the detail that he went to considering most of the book occurred on the streets, but that is one hallmark of a CW book.
This story is like a mine car with no brakes, just like in the Indiana Jones movie, where it was zipping around at huge speed, jumping gaps in the track while twisting to the left and right unexpectedly to avoid pillars of rock. It looks like Mookie, his daughter Nora, and all N.Y.C. is headed for a major pileup.
Mookie is muscle as well as running blaze crews for the mob, so there is a considerable amount of beat downs in this novel. The body count is considerable. Most of the things he takes on are not human as they are from the Great Below. He does very little human killing. He does wreak havoc almost everywhere he goes, with a very few exceptions. Even though Mookie goes through gobbos, snakemen, and others from below, he really loves his daughter, and tries his best to keep her safe. He is a simple, faithful, loyal guy, who will be more than happy to protect you if you shoot straight with him. He is not a complicated man, but ends up being a guy that I was definitely pulling for. Nora is angry at Mookie for how he treated her, and her Mother. She is a young adult, so payback is what she wants. She is the one that has the book smarts in the family, but emotionally, she is fixated on the fact that she didn't get enough attention from her Father. What will it cost her to get what she wants? That question drives some of the action in the novel. The other characters in the story, even the secondary characters like Burnsy, Skelly, Candlefly, the Boss, Haversham, Mr. Smiley and Wertz were all well characterized with backstories, descriptions, quirks, foibles and their own unique dialogue. Each was a striking individual, and while they all weren't human, they could all appear to be, and act like it as well. Masterclass characterization overall.
The plot started out diverting you in one direction, but soon, things will happen at pivotal points in the book that change the scope of the novel and the size of the problem Mookie encounters. Wendig is a great one for ratcheting up the tension through his story arcs, and he does a fabulous job ratcheting up the tension at each of those pivotal points until you are dying to know what happens next - keeping you flipping the pages as fast as you can read. At one point, it looks like Mookie, and/or Nora are done for. You will have to read to find out what happens.
The ending is bittersweet. It was the best ending for the book, but my heart broke over Jess. That was sad, but so enlightening. The last part with Kelly was the sweet part, and was richly deserved. Awesome way to end the most creative, wild,paranormal mob thriller I've ever read. So Highly Recommended, that I can't recommend it enough!
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