Crow Jane (Rock Band Fights Evil Book 3) by D.J. Butler

Crow Jane (Rock Band Fights Evil Book 3) Reviews

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  Az Vera

  Fast paced and gripping contemporary religious fantasy. What I originally took for some run-of-the-mill action adventure quickly blossoms as a backstory stretching back to the days of "Cain and Abel". It tackles the fall of angels, the creation of hell, and snaps back and forth between the ancient origins of religious stories and a twisting, racing plot in the present day as it all comes together.
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  Scott William Taylor

  The books in this series are fun. They're not too gory or gratuitous. The stories are quick reads, not simple, but singularly focused. Book 3 is called Crow Jane and it's a little different from the previous installments, Hellhound On My Trail, and Snake Handlin' Man. Those stories focus mostly on the band, a group of cursed musicians (some think all musicians are "cursed"...) destined to roam the land playing gigs in seedy bars and fighting the forces of evil.
  
  This one, however, focuses on someone else, a marked woman who has lived since the dawn of humanity, or the Biblical timeline of humanity. I loved it! I loved getting to know Jane, or Qayne, as she was once known. Butler weaves her story masterfully into the modern-day tale. We travel back in time to find out more about Jane, how she became "marked," and how those decisions made millennia ago still reverberate today. She's also an anti-hero we can root for. When Jane and the band meet, each side fights for what they need to survive, and the epic battle is full of twists, magic, and even fire sword-wielding giants. It's quite a ride!
  
  There's monsters and devils, angels and faeries, magical spells and flesh-eating horses. It's the kind of story that could be made into a weekly television series where we enter a world full of imaginative characters and situations. In Crow Jane, we get a better glimpse into one of the evil beings the band has been fighting.
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  Karen

  This is kind of like the old serialized action movies, where each one is a story within itself, but they all are part of a larger vision. The third installment of Rock Band Fights Evil has a definite feminine perspective.
  
  Crow Jane is a character that we haven't met in the first two installments of Rock Band Fights Evil. She is an antagonist that has goals of her own, and the band stands between her and what she wants. She has been sent to steal something that many parties want to own for themselves.
  
  We get to know her through flashbacks, just as we come to know the focus characters in the other stories. She is unique, and we look at her in a way that nobody else in history has ever looked.
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  Shelia

  Qayna's story, from the beginnings of human history, is interspersed with modern events. Also known as Jane, the focus of this story is a very, very old woman in a forever-healthy and fit young body, who really wants to die.
  
  Her tale is a twist on that of Cain & Abel, and she is cursed accordingly.
  
  The ending read like the end of an episode of Kung Fu (look it up, young'uns), where the immediate issue is resolved, and Kane (hmmm...) walks off into the sunset leaving people none the wiser about who he is/was, where he came from or why, nor where he's going, and that was the only thing that made me hold back the fifth star that I often give the short-but-awesome books of this series.
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  Samuel

  This was my favorite of the series so far. It just keeps getting better. Dave re-imagines one of the quintessential biblical stories and creates the extremely compelling new character of Crow Jane that will hopefully return often to the series. Each new installment in the series adds new layers of depth to the ongoing story in an effortless and compelling way. Now I need to go back and read the first book again. I'm glad this is on the Kindle because I keep searching in the previous books for references to characters and to review story lines. Keep them coming.
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  James Wymore

  This is the best of the Rock Band series so far, in my opinion. As a big divergence from the rest of the series, Jane is the point of view as we see the band through her eyes. With a long, dark history blending with the latest adventure, it's a fantastic character sketch.
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  Nathan Shumate

  This series just gets better and better. Watch how Butler mixes a revisionist version of Cain & Abel with Egyptian soul mechanics and the Faerie Kingdom, and makes it somehow work!
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  Greg

  A little disappointed that "The Band" wasn't featured very heavily in this volume.