Supernatural: The Unholy Cause (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
This book is set during season 5 of Supernatural during a Civil war re-enactment. All i can say about this book is that it is a good book series so far and i can easily see these being actual TV episodes. i am currently watching season 8, so going back to these books to the previous seasons was great as it is making me want to watch the entire seasons all over again. The story was amazing and easy to read and i found my self getting lost in the book. love the characters in this book and found that i never knew who was on Sam and Dean's side as the judgments that i made of certain characters were proven incorrect as the story progressed. I Was also pleased that Castiel was a part of this story, the way that he appears and disappears around Sam and Dean always makes me smile as Dean in particular reacts to it in a funny way. I would still recommend these books to any Supernatural fans or even people who haven't heard of Supernatural as they are well worth the time to read and i think that most people would enjoy these books :) Takes place in Season Five.Chapter One: Sneaky start so I won’t spoil it. A regular guy goes on crazy rampage. One of the victim’s last name is Gamble. Nod to Sera?Chapter Two: Sam dreams about Lucifer and choking. Wakes up panicked unable to recall most of the details. They are in Georgia on a missing child case (also named Gamble – doesn’t seem related to the other case so I’m wondering if the author forgot he already named a character for Sera- we’ll see.) Rufus shows up with the kid and asks the brothers to go the next county over and work the case he was headed to when this other case came around.Chapter Three: Working really hard on rebuilding their relationship with honesty, Sam tells Dean what he can remember about his dream. They show up at the Civil War Re-enactment battle field where the first Gamble was killed. Dean’s his snarky self, insulting the re-enactors by saying they’re playing dress-up. The re-enactors suggest they talk to the field doctor Castiel.Chapter Four: Castiel thinks the re-enactors are real and that he has his healing ability back until Dean clues him in that they were only pretending to be wounded. Kind of funny. Castiel is there looking for someone who was around at the time of Christ. The show has gone wild with Lucifer, God and Michael, but neatly avoided bringing Christ into it, so I’m a little surprised, although the guy Castiel is looking for is really just a contemporary so it is still barely tiptoeing around him.Chapter Five: They meet the female sheriff and she does not like the brothers even a little bit and is unhelpful in their “FBI” investigation. So far in all the books I’ve read, the cops have either known about hunters or become quickly helpful after witnessing something supernatural. It’s refreshing to have an antagonistic officer.Chapter Six: They decide to split up. Sam going to the Historical Society and Dean to the coroner’s to get a look at the rampaging guy’s corpse. Dean argues that splitting up isn’t good, especially with Sam’s dream and Lucifer wanting to wear him to the prom. Sam huffs a bit and gets his way.Castiel shows up at the coroners. They find a swirling dark thing coming out of the guy’s skull that attacks Dean. Cas confirms that it has to do with the guy he is looking for.Chapter Seven: Sam meets the Historical Society guy who knows about hunters and had called Rufus. He helps Sam with a lot of clues, including a missing noose with powers that seems to be connected to the killings. Remembering his dream, Sam keeps rubbing his neck.Chapter Eight: Castiel’s nickname is spelled as Cass. That shouldn’t bug me, but do you see two S’s in Castiel?Chapters Nine – Twelve: More clues gathered. More nastiness from the sheriff. Dean is getting edgy and doesn’t like that Sam confided everything to the Historical guy. Another re-enactor is killed.Chapters Thirteen: Castiel tells them this noose business and the guy he’s looking for is too powerful and the demons are after Sam for what they have planned so the brothers need to leave. Sam says the demons will come after him wherever he is so it’s better to give them a frontal attack. The sheriff found out they aren’t FBI.Chapters Fourteen- Nineteen: Demons tear up the battlefield and uncover a mound of bones. One particular skull sends the black residual out that kills a guy and a bunch of demons that try to take off with it. The boys pull off some cool espionage to get close to the bones while avoiding the sheriff. She sends bloodhounds after them and Dean has a moment where he freezes, remembering the hellhounds. A lot more happens in these chapters that are pretty riveting. Handcuffs, Castiel , fleeing through a swamp, car crashes. They also find a tortured corpse with strange markings and Dean realizes the same methods were used that he was taught in Hell.Chapters Twenty - Twenty-Seven: They find the noose. Something supernatural chokes Sam. Whoops, trusted the wrong guy again. Yikes. Dean is shot. The boys get separated in the chaos. Now Sam is down too.Chapters Twenty-Eight –Thirty-Eight : Oh my freakin freakiness. The world pretty much explodes. Moving into the climax and it is a whole helluva battle, involving the entire town, all the re-enactors, zillions of people are possessed, a lot of chaos. Cas finds his guy and that doesn’t begin to turn out the way I expected. Both Dean and Sam are hurt and separated and in the thick of it. The action keeps amping up and up and up and just when there is a little lull, nope, it takes off again. Ten chapters fly by like one. The pace is fantastic.However, the reason behind what is going on and why so many demons are there, doesn’t equal to the strength of the action surrounding it. In other words, the motivation of the Big Bad is just kind of meh, more of the same we’ve heard and seen on the show, nothing original or extremely clever. Not that I’m saying it’s not a good read because of that, I was just expecting something with a little more umph or uniqueness to it. But the interplay and excitement and description (some downright gory) are tremendous. The secondary characters surprised me with who was good and who wasn’t and the main one turned out to be downright sadistic. And of course what the boys do to protect and save as many people as they can (there’s an edge of your seat scene with a locomotive and another with what a demon does to Sam—ahhhh, nooooo!) keeps this book at page turner level so it all balances out into a satisfactory conclusion.
What do You think about Supernatural: The Unholy Cause (2011)?
A tie in the doesn't suck. It was, in fact, pretty damned good!
—Lecia
