The Rogue Mountains

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Pub Date 03 Oct 2017 | Archive Date 25 Oct 2017

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A monster hunter arrives to help a rural town with its infestation, but the seething hell spawn are the least of his problems. The three lone mountains are home to a powerful witch and a primordial, maddening beast. It’ll take more than one man to eradicate the “invasive species,” but the townspeople have problems (and secrets) of their own. With man no longer at the top of the food chain, the question on everyone’s mind is, “What is man’s place in nature?” And for that matter, what is a monster’s place in nature?

A monster hunter arrives to help a rural town with its infestation, but the seething hell spawn are the least of his problems. The three lone mountains are home to a powerful witch and a primordial...


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Joshua Tarquinio is the debut author of The Rogue Mountains. During the day, he works as a professional photographer and musician. He received his B.A. from Robert Morris University and currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

About the Author:

Joshua Tarquinio is the debut author of The Rogue Mountains. During the day, he works as a professional photographer and musician. He received his B.A. from Robert Morris University...


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This is one of those books that is so good you wish that you'd never finish it, yet you find yourself ignoring sleep because you can't stop reading.  The end of the world has come and gone; it started in Pittsburgh but it didn't end as we expected it to and now there are other creatures from others planes that have infested our planet.   

The authors description of these creatures are so detailed you can literally see them in your mind's eye, "Shug Monkies are four feet tall, with silky black fur, black leather claws, fang and glowing pinpoint eyes. Wood devils look like undead satyrs, with a humanoid torso, shaggy lower halves that ended in feet with cloven hooves, claws at the end of their fingers, and a goat like head with horns and a goatee.  Their teeth were all spikes and their canines were three inches and hung out or the folds of their upper lip and their eyes were front set and pale.  They were skinny and sickly, but agile and springy".  Both animals travel in hordes.  Wood devils are attracted to any type of blood, even its own wounded and dead.  They also make an excellent burger.  There are hellcats, wyverns, hell bats, hell vulture, psychic demons (more than one type), demons, witches, chupacabras, hell dogs and other monsters and creatures that are not monstrous, but also not of this world/plane. 

The story is centered in an area called The Rogue Mountains and Brothers, Pennsylvania is the small hunting and farming town, nestled at the foot of the mountains has managed to survive the last twenty years since the world changed.  There are three mountains in the region and they've struggled to survive since the monsters moved in; they are used to seeing people die and although they try to kill what they can it seems that it is a losing battle. 

Delaney (Del) Ballentine has been a monster hunter for over twenty years, he has traveled from place to place eradicating monsters and making the world safe for humans once again.  However, he has never seen a place as infested as this little valley at the foot of three mountains.  As he learns the history of the town he begins to realize why this place is so infested and he is determined to kill the entities involved.  The author has drawn all the characters so well, you feel like you know Kate, Sam, Ari, Reggie, Connie, Jeremy and all the others; you feel their pain, sorrows and torments, pain and want to see them restore some semblance of order to their lives.  The author gives you their backstory so you can understand why they are the people they are.  This is done so skillfully that you don't get the usual disjointed felling that you sometimes get when an author goes back in time. 

This was an amazing book and I cannot wait to read "City of Monsters" where we find out what happened in Pittsburgh and I may even reread this after I finish reading the new book.

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I received a free copy of this book from Smith Publicity via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This MAY OR MAY NOT CONTAIN SPOILERS, depending on how you look at it.

Let me start off by saying that I liked this book. I was on the fence though between giving it a 3 or a 4. I decided to round up and go with the 4 because the majority of the story had a lot of things going for it.

There is sooooo much great stuff packed into this little book which made me feel it was rushed. It could very easily have been a 2-3 book series. I noticed that the author is going to write a novel about the events of "Pittsburgh" which is fantastic and totally necessary. I want to know what events triggered the apocalypse and how exactly the different realities/monsters exist in our world and why.

But enough on that. It's coming and I'll make sure to read it.

The mystical, magical and the all the monsters..... nailed it. The descriptions of all of the monsters was so in depth that I could easily visualize them. I had no problem imagining myself on the hunt with Del and Nigel and listening to Del explain how and why the creatures acted like they did. What to do and what not to do. You know, being prepared for anything.

Anyways, moving on to the characters. They were great. I loved their stories though I could have done with a bit more of their backgrounds. I liked how the author would move from character to character throughout the chapters to provide little snippets of who they are with a few surprises along the way (of course!). There were SO many characters however, that it became a bit hard to keep track of everyone. Despite their abundance, I became attached to some and then I found myself having "Game of Thrones" moments where my favourite characters would be snuffed out. And not even really going out in a blaze of glory...just kind of an underwhelming gun shot, being stabbed, falling off a cliff, killed by accident, etc. The epic battle at the end was somewhat of a wash as there was just too much going on, with too many characters dying in insignificant ways, that I lost track and stopped feeling any sense of loss or remorse for anyone. I found myself thinking "what could you possibly do now with who's left, and at this point, does it matter?"

I liked the elements of mystery throughout the book and piecing people's relationships together. The setting and idea for the book were fantastic. My major issue with it was really only the underwhelming ending. And just to be clear, what I consider to the ending was not the last chapter with the Boogeyman in it. Speaking of that last chapter.....maybe I missed something but how does any of that final chapter with the Boogeyman have anything to do with the story? Maybe I need to re-read it because I was on the tired side this morning. I'll give it another go and update this review if my opinion on it changes.

I encourage people to definitely pick up this book and read it. It's good. It's fresh, creative, and interesting. The pace is good and it's really impressive how much is packed into it. My catalogue of monsters has definitely increased and I'm not sure I'll ever look at a dog or a monkey the same way again. Really good debut novel and I'm looking forward to reading the next one.

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