7th Son: Deceit

A lot of readers attach a stigma to fiction that's given away by its author, the thinking no doubt being that if the author doesn't think it's worth buying, why should the reader/listener bother investing their time and emotional energy in it? It's an understandable argument on one level, but with podcasted novels like this, those arguments are proven completely false.

Hutchins is amazingly talented. He writes with the scope and scale of big summer blockbuster films, but in a way that contains more character depth and complexity than Hollywood would usually feature, as we continue to follow the clones of John Alpha in their attempts to discover their progenitor's plans, which go much deeper than any of them dare realize. Hutchin's treatment of the clones is masterful; each of them has their own distinct personality, but every once and awhile you catch subtle little similarities between their personalities, as well as some similarities with Alpha.

7th Son is coming out in print later this year, and I hear a film's been optioned as well, but for now you can listen to the whole thing for free at www.jchutchins.net