G.L. Giles’ Review of M.R. Sellars’ Love Is the Bond

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G.L. Giles’ Review of M.R. Sellars’ Love Is the Bond: A Rowan Gant Investigation (E.M.A. Mysteries, an imprint of WillowTree Press, 2005)


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“Nefarious Lady Night Stalker-Walker’s Killing Spree Calls Out Crime Scene Investigators with Metaphysical Skills”

It’s nice to read a book where the female protagonist isn’t the victim. In fact, she’s the antithesis: she’s a serial killer! Although this is book six of the Rowan Gant Investigation series, readers can jump right in with this one without being lost. M.R. Sellars skillfully blends Neo-Paganism and Voodoo into his tales, yet he also dares to turn them on their heads with twists that are definitely not part of mainstream spiritual political correctness. A trait that’s quite refreshing! For instance, he employs sadistic sex magick throughout with dominatrix-style rituals. Guaranteed to keep you turning the pages, even though other obligations may be beckoning.

As Sellars explains in the “Author’s Note,” this “book is a first-person narrative. You are seeing this story through the eyes of Rowan Gant.” As such, I enjoyed the accuracy of imperfect sentence structure, etc. as it added to the verisimilitude of the storyline. Accents were spot-on in sentences with naturally-flowing speech patterns. And I found myself wanting to learn Gaelic after reading choice phrases, uttered by Rowan’s feisty Irish-American wife Felicity, throughout the book.

Finally, the dialogue between husband and wife was realistic as it wasn’t saccharinely-sweet. Rather, it was clever and even acrimonious at times.

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