Review:  Dead Serious Halloween Special (Crawshanks Guide to the Recently Departed Book 6) by Vawn Cassidy

Rating:  4.75 🌈

Vawn Cassidy’s Dead Serious Halloween Special delivers that wonderful blend of serious elements and delicious zany otherworldly storytelling that makes this series and the characters such a joy. 

It’s Halloween or Samhain. Obviously. And all our group of fabulous characters, that found family of humans, ghosts, witches, and otherworldly beings will be gathering together for a party. 

But we get an intimate glimpse first into a scene between Tristan and Danny that not only shows the aftermath of the traumatic events from Viv’s death but also how the revelations of the paranormal world has changed Danny’s life.  It’s a highly emotional and impactful scene. Beautifully written and while not a huge part of the story, it reverberates throughout this book.

That’s in keeping with the spirit of the series and how this author weaves all the emotional layers into the narrative and lives .  Especially as what comes next is wildly unexpected and vividly imagined. That’s speaking as someone who never thought that those childhood fairytales were very fun but scary. As they were often meant to be. 

There’s some potentially frightening moments, new characters, old friends reappearing, and happily a resolution that sees everyone safe.  

But not without a dark mention of a “something “  in everyone’s lives that is to be discovered in a new series coming soon.  So a mini- cliffhanger. 

This was a terrific story, I rushed through it because I couldn’t stop reading, from scene to scene. Then again, to get all the small details I missed the first time.  And there’s lots of great stuff in there that moves characters forward in growth and development in their own ways. 

So don’t miss out.  Grab Dead Serious Halloween Special (Crawshanks Guide to the Recently Departed Book 6) by Vawn Cassidy and get ready for the next series to arrive.

Cover design by Natasha Snow @NatashaSnowDesigns

Crawshanks Guide to the Recently Departed :

🔹Dead Serious Case# 1 Miz Dusty Le Frey 

🔹Dead Serious Case# 2 Mrs Delores Abanathy 

🔹Dead Serious Case #3 Mr Bruce Reyes 

🔹Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume 

🔹Dead Serious Case #5 Madame Vivienne 

🔹Dead Serious-Just the Extras 

🔹Dead Serious-Halloween 

Special Crawshanks Guide to the Occult :

🔹The Little Shop of Curiosities Cursed Object #1 – coming soon 

Crawshanks Universe Novellas/ Spin offs (only available from the Vawn Cassidy website ) 

The Grim Adventures of Death & Chan Vol 1

The Grim Adventures of Death & Chan Vol 2 

Blue Thunder 

Dead Serious The True Fan 

Dead Serious Official Companion

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        Dead Serious Halloween Special (Crawshanks Guide to the Recently Departed Book 6)

    

Blurb 

It’s Halloween and Chan’s hosting a party at Harrison’s newly inherited occult bookshop. Tristan is looking forward to a night of music, food and fun costumes with his husband and their friends.

What they actually get is chaos on the streets of Whitechapel when they accidentally open the Gospodar, the master copy of all fairy tales and let all of the creatures loose.

It’s not the first time they’ve escaped but this time, they’re determined not to go back.

They’ve only got until midnight. Tick tock goes the clock…

This Halloween special picks up after the events of book five and leads into the spin off series, The Little Shop of Curiosities.

• Publication date: October 30, 2024
• Language: English
• Print length: 141 pages