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 Murder in the Magick Club by Byron A. Lorrier Nov 16, 2011
By Elisa
I'm not sure I liked Bryn, the Magick Club owner, as I'm not sure I like Detective Rutland, the police officer who has the task to investigate on a murder happened behind the club. Both of them have an attitude towards life and people that I found a little disturbing, since it seemed detached. But then you start to pick some details, like how Bryn is almost a protector for the ones working with him (he is more than ready to defend them when Detective Rutland starts questioning around), or like the same Detective Rutland (gay) talks about Nick, the young man hanging around Magick Club, clearly turning tricks to live, and no, he is not talking about him in a sexual way (or maybe a little) but more like someone who is regretting to see a young life like that one going waste. And in the end I think I loved them, with all their very bad side and nasty comments and even sometime offensive behaviour.
When I say that you "start to pick details", I have probably also given you an idea of the reading experience; the style is not simple, sometime the characters, mainly Bryn and Detective Rutland, start a flow of thoughts or words that is almost like a torrent, and like the one fictional character in front of them, also the reader on the other side of the page would probably like to take a breath, but it's not possible, and the same narrative voice is almost running, to not let you have neither a second. You are there trying to collect all the pieces, and suddenly you have almost finished the novel, and the solving of the mystery somewhat is no more important, since all the details you collected give you a better puzzle than the "simple" murder you were trying to solve.
Murder in the Magick Club is not a linear mystery novel where you have a clue here and there, and you more or less arrive to the end with a 50/50 possibility to find the villain, it's more like a melting pot of characters, and among them neither one is fully villain or fully good guy. Actually I think that most of them would require a some sort of therapy, physical or mental. It's for sure dark humour and you have not to be scared to laugh of inappropriate things, otherwise you will feel really guilty upon finishing this novel if you liked it.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
a remarkable book Jun 02, 2009
By Dr. Judith L. Klykken
I began reading murder in the magick club early one evening intending to read a few pages before going to sleep. Hours later I closed the book feeling as is I had been a visitor into an underground pagan culture.
Wow! The Magick Club is the meeting place of choice for some of the seediest characters in recent memory. No faded pastel people here, no genteel Southern belles or cultured gentlemen need apply. The club has attracted slags, slatterns, sexual deviants, unrepentant thieves and self-engrangradizing soothsayers. Bryn is a cafe owner with big problems--he's in debt, his employees set a new standard for slovens, the customers redefine spiritual bankruptcy and now a murder.
The writing is edgy, snarky with sly insights into the Wiccan subculture of Tampa, Florida.
Murder in the Magick Club is a new, original voice in the expanding world of countercultures. Read it--I promise you will learn a thing or two!
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
insightful look at the "Tragic Club" crew Feb 02, 2011
By Harriet Klausner
Alcoholic Bryn Thomas owns and manages the seedy Magick Club where he employs an eccentric staff that no one else would hire. His waiters (Robert the snide commentator and Cal the snarling silencer) are former felons who stink at their job. As for his waitresses Madge is not customer friendly especially after three drinks while Bri actually services the patrons. Finally there is Honey the psychic, who besides reading the future is hard to read what she does for employment at the run down nightclub. Thank goodness the patrons match the quality of the employees and employer.
Still hung over from the night before, Bryn finds a body behind the dumpster. He questions his staff; but each insists they do not know the identity of the corpse or why he lies like a garbage heap next to last night's garbage. Unsure what to do next, Bryn and his team discuss calling the cops with the suggestions by the waiters apparently persuading their employer as to what to do.
Fans who appreciate something atmospherically different will want to read the entreating but strange Murder in the Magick Club. The story line is totally character driven by those who work or drink at the dive as the whodunit even with a neat spin is more a device to enable readers to better know the misfits and outcasts who have forged an odd community. With a nod to Bret Harte (see The Outcasts of Poker Flat), Byron A. Lorrier, Esq. provides the audience with an insightful look at a group of seemingly losers with no place to go yet in an odd symbiotic way have forged into a sort of family unit; albeit as Homicide Detective Rutland says at the "Tragic Club".
Harriet Klausner
4 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Unforgettable characters make this story truly magic! May 25, 2009
By zwitchbethany
Murder in the Magick club is the inside story of a Pagan Night Club in Tampa, Florida. The owner of the night club is up to his chin in debt, the staff not only hate each other they're stealing from the cash register too, and to add insult to injury a murder occurs behind the club. These ingredients are combined in a cauldron called "The Magick Club" and chaos ensues. The characters in this book consist of the completely wacky to the somber and sullen... with a little S&M thrown in for good measure. I laughed, cringed, giggled and might have cried a little if the characters weren't so deserving of all the karma that came their way. Great read for anyone looking for something out of the ordinary! Pagans beware, the Magick club is open for business.
 Murder in the Magick Club Jan 21, 2012
By ChancesR
"ChancesR"
Emphatically I must say I am not prudish or small minded, but there was just too much foul language in the book... over the top. I waded through 2/3 of the book before giving up the ghost waiting for some real plot development. A disappointment.
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