Unfortunately, in book 1, Unhallowed, Sebastian had to bind himself to one of the books to contain its evil, and has no idea how this may imperil him. In fact the library was built as a container for these evil objects. Vesper’s brother, Noc, who has too many tentacles to pass as human, is another employee, along with an important cast of side characters. They are searching for four magical books that were created by a necromancer in the mid 1800s to bring about mankind’s destruction. Both he and Vesper Rune, his human-like, but tentacled lover, are employees of a library dedicated to neutralizing dark magic. On page one, where Sebastian Rath attends a murdered person’s funeral because the deceased was once a friend and co-worker, before betraying Sebastian, we know we can trust Sebastian’s ethics. Please read them in order to understand the increasingly complex plot and, of course, to get full pleasure from both. Yet Unseen is as frightfully sublime as Unhallowed, the first novel in his Rath & Rune series, both set in the early 1900s. In fact, I avoided scary movies like the plague. Hawk, I’d never enjoyed having goosebumps from fear.
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