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Never Burn a Witch: A Rowan Gant Investigation

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Another excellent book by M.R. Sellars. I was very glad to see Rowan Gant again although I must admit I don't want to be living his life - it's way to scary!

This whole series are wonderful and frightning. Great Pagan fiction!

This is a great series of mystery books that deal with Witchcraft in a very respectable way. The main characters are witches who help the law decipher occult symbols found at a St.Louis murder site. It's a fairly realistic portrayal of wiccans. Christians won't approve, but the book gets heavily into the craft and it's tenants.

Check this one out, it was a rollercoaster ride.

I am the mother of a 3 year old, so needless to say, I don't get a lot of time to myself for reading. It usually takes me a while to finish a book. However, I finished this book in three evenings! It pulls you in at the very beginning and doesn't stop until it's done. Even then, it hints at more to come.

I liked it so much that as soon as I read the last page, I got online and ordered two other MR Sellars books.

Sellars presents Wicca and Paganism in a realistic, positive light. His descriptions are so realistic I felt I was right there with the characters. This is a fantastic read whether you are Pagan or just love a great mystery!

I was in the middle of one of Patricia Cornwall's Kay Scarpetta mysteries when I picked up "Never Burn a Witch." After only a few pages, I put Cornwall aside until I finished this book, and the two sequels that follow it: "Perfect Trust" and "The Law of Three."

I had read and enjoyed the first book, "Harm None." With each book, the stakes grow higher for Rowan Gant. There is a real sense of place in the St. Louis setting. The positive portrayal of pagan religion makes it a fascinating read, but Sellars never lets the religious aspect overshadow the mystery.

I cannot recommend the Rowan Gant series highly enough.

First let me say that I admire anyone that can sit down and write
a book. Any Book. Next let me say that as a reader of aforesaid books, I do have some problems with this one. The protagonist does some very unwise stuff, stuff any sane rational person would
never do. Personally I have some problem with individuals that do this. It aggravates me greatly and decreases my ability to empathize with the character. Next the antagonist gets NO character development. Though it is obvious he is a very disturbed individual, there is no insight into his character, what is actually going on in his head, nothing about his background. Last but this is my own personal taste, I could do without the graphic description in the torture
murder scenes, I dont think its necessary or helpful to the story as a whole. I do appreciate the fact that it is basically a reference back to the things that actually happened to innocent victims during the Inquisition, but I don't read these books realism. I know the world is a hard place and people are
capable of atrocities. I dont need or want a blow by blow thanks.

I raced to the store to purchase the next M.R. Sellars book, "Never Burn a Witch". Got it home and began to read it. I thoroughly enjoyed this book but, I must say not as much as the first, "Harm None". My reason for this is because of the cliff hanger at the end. Although most people like movies and books that give them just that a cliff hanger. However, I am more of a complete kind of person. The book itself was a good as the first and I enjoyed the same. Again, M.R. Sellars I thank you.

Can't wait to get to the next book.

Upon reading the 2nd book by M.R. Sellars in his Rowan Gant Investigations Series of books I found the transition of his character from the first to the second book to be really great and wonderfully written. I think his cover artist (who is this guy) has designed the perfect feel for what M.R. Sellars writes about and it made the book literally leap off the shelf at me. It screamed "BUY ME-BUY ME" outloud so I did. And have also bought several copies as gifts for friends. Great writing work from a fantastic author.

1. The book is worth a read and for those that enjoy mysteries or urban fantasy its worth buying.
2. I live in St. Louis
3. I am not pagan, although I have friends that are.

Never Burn a Witch was an enjoyable wasting of time that I should have been doing other things. Although not quite as good as Harm None, I found it to be engaging but be warned you may be somewhat grossed out at the two burning killings. Living in the city I found it to be fun to be able to place MR Sellars scenes and name changed communities ["yes, I recall that snowstorm and lets see, Millchester is here, and Brairwood could be that..."]

If I have a complaint its that MR Sellars, due to the demands of fiction, is loading up the city in his books with more a deranged criminal element that our midwest, comfortably apathetic city really is. But then if he didn't he wouldn't have a series.

Eagerly anticipating this latest offering by Mr. Sellers, I was not disappointed. The characters of Rowan Gant, Felicity Gant, and Ben Storm are devleoped even further. The anticipation literally would not let me put the book down until I was done. It is refreshing to see a Pagan author writing fiction but showing a more "real" side of Pagan beliefs and attitudes. The supernatural elements in Gants' life are only slightly outside the realm of possibilities. The characters are real and situations (sadly) all too possible in this age of serial killers and media hype. Sellers presents his characters in very real fashion, and also gives a realistic view of people who live within this faith known as Wicca, as well as giving realistic and real to life reactions of those who come in contact with many people who are of this faith, both open minded or not. I own his first offering in this series and cannot keep it in my library as it keeps getting loaned out, only to be told they are having to buy their own copy. We can only hope that Sellers will be publishing for many years to come.