Sunday, October 5, 2014

Take a Trip to Sleepy Hollow




Sleepy Hollow: Children Of The Revolution
by Keith R. A. DeCandido
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pub. Date: September 30, 2014
ISBN: 978-0553419009
ASIN: 978-0553419009
Pages: 304
Buy Links: Paperback, Kindle

Review:

The television series Sleepy Hollow was a surprise hit last year on FOX, which just started its second season a few weeks ago. Similar to other fantasy television shows, Sleepy Hollow has entered into the world of novelizations with last month's release of Sleepy Hollow: Children Of The Revolution by Keith R. A. DeCandido, an author who has written a novelization of from almost every popular science-fiction and fantasy franchises.

Sleepy Hollow is based on the classic short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving and centers on Ichabod Crane (played by Tom Mison) waking up from his grave in our time and of course the Headless Horseman, whom is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, comes back from the dead too. Crane teams up with Lt. Grace Abigail "Abbie" Mills (played by Nicole Beharie) of the Sleepy Hollow Police Department to defeat the rising demons and the upcoming apocalypse. He is still searching for his long-lost wife Katrina Crane (played by Katia Winter), who is a witch that is stuck between the living and the dead.

Children Of The Revolution takes place between the season one episodes "The Golem" and "The Vessel." Ichabod Crane is still adjusting to living in the twenty-first century; minding his own business while walking in the park that is until he receives a new vision from his wife, Katrina, telling him to seek out the Congressional Cross that he received over two-hundred years ago.

He has no idea where the medal is located, so he seeks the help of Lt. Mills in order track it down, but there is one slight problem - Serilda of Abaddon, the witch that appeared in the second episode of season one (Blood Moon), is attempting to bring herself back from the dead. It seems the Congressional Cross is one of ten that Serilda needs for her resurrection. Ichabod Crane and Lt. Mills must race against time to find the Crosses, before Serilda's followers do.

Novelizations based on popular television shows can be a mixed bag, as it could be a decent read or a bad read that was only written to cash in on the series popularity. I'm happy to say that say Children Of The Revolution falls in neither category, but instead it is a well-written novel that is set between episode ten and episode eleven of the first season. The story flash back and forth from 2014 to the late 1700's in a similar fashion as the television series. Overall, Sleepy Hollow: Children Of The Revolution is chilling and entertaining read and I recommend it to other fans of the series.



*Disclaimer - I received a complimentary copy in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.


About the Author:

Keith R.A. DeCandido was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians, which pretty much explains everything. He has written around 50 novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, comic books, and blog entries, many of them in various media universes, among them Star Trek, Sleepy Hollow, Supernatural, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Leverage, Marvel Comics, Cars, Farscape, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate, Serenity, Resident Evil, Kung Fu Panda, Doctor Who, and more. Among his many works of original fiction are the fantasy police procedural series of novels and short stories that started with Dragon Precinct, as well as a series of urban fantasy short stories set in Key West, Florida, many of which are in Ragnarok & Roll: Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet. Keith is also an editor (having supervised several book lines and put together dozens of anthologies), musician (percussionist for the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players, the Boogie Knights, and others), and a second-degree black belt in Kenshikai karate (he both trains and teaches). He still lives in New York City with various humans and animals.

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