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J. C. Hutchins’s 7th Son will always be for me a simultaneous experience of escapist fluff perfectly blended with thoughtful philosophical concepts.   The 7th Son series stands up to a biennial rereading for both the purpose thrills (despite knowing the ending) and thoughtful analysis of deeper themes and meanings.  

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I’m still a little upset that I will never get the chance to read these book for the first time again.  While overjoyed with the satisfying and epic conclusion, the feeling of anticipation was lost when I finished that last episode on Christmas night, 2007.  I lost the opportunity to speculate what was going to happen next and how the story was going to eventually end. While I can still remember the more powerful emotions from that first read-through, the specifics elude me and I wish I could recall some of that speculation.

Now I’m writing this blog as a public record of what I anticipate and hope will happen in this new adventure.  2,229 days after I finished 7th Son, The 33 was released. After reading this first episode I have complete confidence that the wait was well worth it.  There are only two things I hope to take away from the new reading experience: to be entertained, and to think.  I look forward to sharing my speculation, my questions, my hopes for future installments.