Book Review: BuyMort: Grand Opening: How I Became the Accidental Warlord of Arizona by Damien Hanson and Joseph Phelps (Shopapocalypse Saga Book 1)

     Welcome to the BuyMort family. Your life has just been upgraded to this interstellar family where you can buy and sell everything you could ever need with just a thought. Why wouldn't you love it? Tyson was a maintenance man at a RV park in Arizona until BuyMort arrived. Now, with Sleem and all kinds of other aliens running around he must forge a new life in this buyers market. 

    I received a copy of this book from one of the authors in exchange for an honest review. This book is exciting and fun to read from the beginning. I received it a few days before release and I have book 2 now. I will be starting it soon, and I already can't wait!

    While I would hate to actually have to deal with BuyMort I love how Tyson managed. He has a unique sense of humor and I loved the writing style. We follow a first person account of Tyson while he deals with this new shopping and selling opportunity placed in his, and everyone else's, mind. He quickly learns that exchange rates aren't exact. With BuyMort's appearance comes alien life: priests as well as affiliates who follow BuyMort as they spread their joy. His previous boss, Mr. Sada, has already started cashing in by getting a MortBlock to prevent anyone else from selling anything that belongs to him. However, there are plenty that want to take over, because conquest is an accepted transaction method with BuyMort. 

    The pending interspecies romance that seems to be budding between two characters is weird to me, but that could be more from being unsure how that could possibly work than anything else. Normally, I am completely fine with human and alien relations. We shall see if this becomes a thing as we progress. I genuinely hated Mr. Sada in this book. We did literally nothing productive during the entire book, often making things more difficult than they needed to be. 

    I can't wait to see how Tyson, Rayna, Molls, and (my personal favorite) Phyllis continue in the BuyMort family. Phillis is a woman over 90 who loves getting high and is one of the biggest supporting characters in this book. It would not have been the same without her and I hope they find a way to keep her as a long-term character despite her age. While book 1 was just released on August 31 Amazon says book 2 will be out on November 10th! Just enough time to grab your copy of 1 before 2 comes out. 

    This book is available on Kindle Unlimited or buy it for $4.99 by clicking here. 

Books by this author: 

Smart Shopper (BuyMort Book 2) 

Rise of the Windowpuncher (BuyMoirt Book 3)

Bull Market Mayhem (Shopocalypse Book 5)

Book Review: Witch Piney Are You? by Tony DiGerolamo (The Pineys Book 2)

     Now that Lewis is a member of the family and is living with his cousin, Hem, in the old farmhouse he has started working at the shop. While normally things are slow he is determined to bring in some cash to the place so Hem will stop borrowing money from him for things. Except Hem likes to visit the Happy Hand, which normally wouldn't be a problem if they didn't have a whole bus load of tourists on their way in. In order to satisfy everyone on his own Lewis makes another deal with Aunt Christie. While this deal is innocent enough more witches will soon be coming to the Piney's and they are in search of the boy Christie promised them. Can Lewis and his new cousins stop this new foe? 

    I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. I enjoyed most of book one, baring a certain gross event, and this book was actually better than book one. They are still hunting devils, but there are also shape-changing witches. 

    My biggest pet peeve with this book actually took place within the first chapter. A guy is heading down the road through the woods and his truck breaks down. His 9 or 10 year old daughter hears some wolves howling and calls them doggys. Then while he is fixing the truck she hops out of the truck and runs into the woods after these animals then stands there watching them calling them doggys. I don't know if this child was mentally behind or what but my almost 6 year old doesn't even act like that or walk like that. My almost 2 year old sure. And my nephew who is eight wouldn't call a wolf doggy or run into the woods at night after them. It just isn't realistic from an age appropriate standpoint. 

     Other than this the book was enjoyable. We have witches that can appear as something else, more devils to fight, and a lot of feminism. Can't say I loved that last part, but there are all kinds, even the extremists like in this book. I didn't like Lewis as much in this book as I did in the first one. Especially his choices at the end of the book, but we will see if he changes for the better later on. As before the writing in this book is great and the story is engaging. You want to know what happens next and find it hard to put down. 

     This book is available on Kindle Unlimited or buy it on Amazon for $2.99 by clicking here. 

Books by this author: 

My Cousin, The Piney (The Pineys Book 1)

The Third Grade Piney (The Pineys Book 3)

Feud of the Pineys (The Pineys Book 4)

Jersey Shore Piney (The Pineys Book 5)