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The North Valley Grimoire

par Blake Northcott

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MAGICK IS LEAKING INTO OUR WORLD, AND AN OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO KEEP IT A SECRET.Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Craft and 007 collide in an all new magical spy thriller from Blake Northcott, the international best-selling author of Arena Mode. The North Valley Grimoire is Kickstarter's #1 MOST FUNDED & MOST BACKED original novel of 2018! SUMMARY Warrantless searches.Illegal surveillance.Prisoners locked in indefinite detention.It's all in the name of national security, or so we're told. While the government expands its power behind a veil of secrecy, a complicit media remains silent. As the world continues to spiral, it's business as usual in North Valley--a sleepy suburb known for little more than golf courses and overpriced real estate . . . until a series of murders casts a shadow over the town.When Calista Scott investigates the death of her classmate, she uncovers a secret the government has been protecting all along: magick is real. It's the most dangerous weapon in existence. And the grimoire her classmate left behind is the equivalent of a loose nuke. REVIEWS "I love this book. Blake Northcott has seamlessly shifted genres and proven she's as masterful in magic and fantasy as she was in science-fiction. Don't pick this up unless you're prepared to not put it down." - Mark Millar (Writer of Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Marvel's Civil War, Old Man Logan) "There is world-building going on all throughout fiction these days -- and then there is Blake Northcott taking it to another level. Telling the story of a magical conspiracy through the lens of teen adventure, The North Valley Grimoire is what would happen if James Patterson and J.K. Rowling had a baby and it grew up to be a best-seller." - Scott Lobdell (Hollywood screenwriter of blockbuster Happy Death Day, Marvel Comics writer of Uncanny X-Men and X-Factor) "From the first paragraph, The North Valley Grimoire grabs the reader. And once it takes hold, it refuses to let go. Successfully fusing a spy thriller and supernatural adventure is not easy, not without losing key elements that make both genres so entertaining, but Blake Northcott delivers in full, face-melting force, all while building an immersive world that you will not want to leave. She has a real winner on her hands!" - Cullen Bunn (NYT bestselling author of The 6th Gun, X-Men Blue, and Deadpool) "A razor sharp page-turner that seamlessly blends two worlds--a late 90s teen horror film, and a cat-and-mouse spy thriller where magic is a weapon. It's electric, and I've never read anything like it." - Rees Jones (co-author of Royals, with the world's #1 selling author, James Patterson) "Horror has a compelling, new protagonist in Calista Scott, and a powerful, new voice in author Blake Northcott. Read this book...but do it with the lights on." - Bryan Edward Hill (Writer at DC's Detective Comics, Hollywood scriptwriter of Ash vs. The Evil Dead) and Titans on the DC Universe steaming channel.… (plus d'informations)
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Fun YA Mash-up of Spies & Magick
Review of the Independently Published edition (2018) based on the crowdfunded Kickstarter edition "The North Valley Grimoire" (2018)

[3.5] I never caught the magic & fantasy bug and only ever managed a few pages of the first Harry Potter. Even adult styled works such as "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" and "The Magicians" became part of my DNF list. For this current work, I even had to look up that grimoire meant a textbook of magic rather than the sad French mirror of my imagination.

Espionage, dystopia, coming of age, fish out of water and Lovecraftian (sorry, I associate anything with tentacles as Cthulhu-adjacent) are right in my bailiwick though, so Blake Northcott's independently crowd-funded novel was a definite draw. The crowd-funded aspect itself was of interest as it does seem to be an indicator for future publishing with even literary translations such as "Cleopatra Goes to Prison" (Kickstarter) from Dedalus Press or small Independent Press prizes such as the Republic of Consciousness Prize (previously Kickstarter, now Patreon) being funded through that method. In addition I discovered that Northcott is from my own hometown of Toronto, Canada so let's support our local authors as well!

I did mostly enjoy The North Valley Grimoire but did feel that there was an odd change in allegiances about halfway through the novel that just felt off and which subverted my enjoyment for the rest of the work. Saying anything more about that would be a spoiler. Still it was suspenseful and compelling enough for me to finish and to look forward to what seemed to be the promise of a sequel. Northcott is currently (September 2019) crowd-funding a graphic novel Everglade Angels ( )
  alanteder | Sep 13, 2019 |
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MAGICK IS LEAKING INTO OUR WORLD, AND AN OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO KEEP IT A SECRET.Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Craft and 007 collide in an all new magical spy thriller from Blake Northcott, the international best-selling author of Arena Mode. The North Valley Grimoire is Kickstarter's #1 MOST FUNDED & MOST BACKED original novel of 2018! SUMMARY Warrantless searches.Illegal surveillance.Prisoners locked in indefinite detention.It's all in the name of national security, or so we're told. While the government expands its power behind a veil of secrecy, a complicit media remains silent. As the world continues to spiral, it's business as usual in North Valley--a sleepy suburb known for little more than golf courses and overpriced real estate . . . until a series of murders casts a shadow over the town.When Calista Scott investigates the death of her classmate, she uncovers a secret the government has been protecting all along: magick is real. It's the most dangerous weapon in existence. And the grimoire her classmate left behind is the equivalent of a loose nuke. REVIEWS "I love this book. Blake Northcott has seamlessly shifted genres and proven she's as masterful in magic and fantasy as she was in science-fiction. Don't pick this up unless you're prepared to not put it down." - Mark Millar (Writer of Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Marvel's Civil War, Old Man Logan) "There is world-building going on all throughout fiction these days -- and then there is Blake Northcott taking it to another level. Telling the story of a magical conspiracy through the lens of teen adventure, The North Valley Grimoire is what would happen if James Patterson and J.K. Rowling had a baby and it grew up to be a best-seller." - Scott Lobdell (Hollywood screenwriter of blockbuster Happy Death Day, Marvel Comics writer of Uncanny X-Men and X-Factor) "From the first paragraph, The North Valley Grimoire grabs the reader. And once it takes hold, it refuses to let go. Successfully fusing a spy thriller and supernatural adventure is not easy, not without losing key elements that make both genres so entertaining, but Blake Northcott delivers in full, face-melting force, all while building an immersive world that you will not want to leave. She has a real winner on her hands!" - Cullen Bunn (NYT bestselling author of The 6th Gun, X-Men Blue, and Deadpool) "A razor sharp page-turner that seamlessly blends two worlds--a late 90s teen horror film, and a cat-and-mouse spy thriller where magic is a weapon. It's electric, and I've never read anything like it." - Rees Jones (co-author of Royals, with the world's #1 selling author, James Patterson) "Horror has a compelling, new protagonist in Calista Scott, and a powerful, new voice in author Blake Northcott. Read this book...but do it with the lights on." - Bryan Edward Hill (Writer at DC's Detective Comics, Hollywood scriptwriter of Ash vs. The Evil Dead) and Titans on the DC Universe steaming channel.

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