Broken Souls Audiobook By Stephen Blackmoore cover art

Broken Souls

Eric Carter, Book 2

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

Broken Souls

By: Stephen Blackmoore
Narrated by: Rudy Sanda
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $21.49

Buy for $21.49

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

Sister murdered, best friend dead, married to the patron saint of death, Santa Muerte. Necromancer Eric Carter's return to Los Angeles hasn't gone well, and it's about to get even worse.

His link to the Aztec death goddess is changing his powers, changing him, and he's not sure how far it will go. He's starting to question his own sanity, wonder if he's losing his mind. No mean feat for a guy who talks to the dead on a regular basis.

While searching for a way to break Santa Muerte's hold over him, Carter finds himself the target of a psychopath who can steal anyone's form, powers, and memories. Identity theft is one thing, but this guy does it by killing his victims and wearing their skins like a suit. He can be anyone. He can be anywhere.

Now Carter has to change the game—go from hunted to hunter. All he has for help is a Skid Row bruja and a ghost who's either his dead friend Alex or the manifestation of Carter's own guilt-fueled psychotic break.

Everything is trying to kill him. Nothing is as it seems. If all his plans go perfectly, he might survive the week.

He's hoping that's a good thing.

©2014 Stephen Blackmoore (P)2022 Tantor Fantasy Paranormal & Urban Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Urban Fiction Paranormal
All stars
Most relevant  
I am loving this series, Eric is an ass whenever possible but in general tries to do the right thing. I'm enjoying the Aztec pantheon instead of the usual eurocentric pantheons in this genre.

urban fantasy with a dark side

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
high quality paranormal nior mystery thriller. only real gripe is the abundance of sudden nausea and injury related handicaps leading the mc to either make dumb decisions or just straight up lose engagements hed normally win. it's better then having no good reason for the plot relevant things happening despite the MC's wishes, but using the same 3 excuses enough gets old.

anyway good book regardless.

very good

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A frustrating novel. Up to a certain point, it's an exciting story about a supernatural pair of stalkers with terrific action and great characters. But the protagonist spends a great deal of the novel trying to escape a deal with a supernatural creature only to make another obviously bad deal with a different supernatural creature? It feels like an unnecessarily stupid character decision that goes against the entire plot of the novel. Having characters make bad decisions simply to set up plot is one of my least favorite tropes, and here it's pretty eyerolling.

Good story up until...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I found the story so predictably upsetting it made me angry. I wish it had been better.

Good Performance, Bad Story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
After the events of the first book in the series, our hero(?) has even more problems in his life. He's borderline stalking his ex, he's "married" to a supernatural power that he doesn't like or respect, and he's haunted by the ghost of his former best friend.

The setting is still basically generic LA, with magic. And the power of the magic seems to be growing exponentially.

We have a couple of new antagonists, who might be working as agents for somebody else or for themselves. There are several supernatural beings with ambiguous motives. And there are new and old allies who only want to kill Carter part of the time.

The plot seems more confusing than the plot of the first novel, and I found myself losing interest at several points during the read. This might have been purely a function of my increasing detachment from the series. The protagonist is written so as to be able to avoid the consequences of his actions trivially, using stickers, a Sharpie, and magic, which reduces much of the plot to the background. The book ends with a big revelation that didn't really make mechanical sense from elements of the story, but which did make thematic sense.

The protagonist seems to be campaigning throughout the book to become even less sympathetic to the reader, stealing whatever is convenient without consideration of his victims and alienating everyone who might be an ally.

After the first book in this series, I was hesitant to continue, because it didn't work especially well for me. After two books, that opinion is reinforced and I won't be reading any further. I don't care to spend any more time with this protagonist or in this world. YMMV.

Unsympathetic Urban Fantasy

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.