Swashbucklers

Name: Swashbucklers
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Dan Hanks
ISBN: 9781696606486

Author: Dan Hanks

Narrator: Dan Calley

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 11/09/2021

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Ghost

Synopsis

When Cisco Collins returns to his home town thirty years after saving it from being swallowed by a hell mouth opened by an ancient pirate ghost, he realizes that being a childhood hero isn't like it was in the movies. Especially when nobody remembers the heroic bits—even the friends who once fought alongside him.

Struggling with single parenting and treated as bit of a joke, Cisco isn't really in the Christmas spirit like everyone else. A fact that's made worse by the tendrils of the pirate's powers creeping back into our world and people beginning to die in bizarre ways.

With the help of a talking fox, an enchanted forest, a long-lost friend haunting his dreams, and some '80s video game consoles turned into weapons, Cisco must now convince his friends to once again help him save the day. Yet they quickly discover that being a ghostbusting hero is so much easier when you don't have schools runs, parent evenings, and nativity plays to attend. And even in the middle of a supernatural battle, you always need to bring snacks and wipes . . .

About Dan Hanks

Dan Hanks is a writer, editor, and vastly overqualified archaeologist who has lived everywhere from London to Hertfordshire to Manchester to Sydney, which explains the panic in his eyes anytime someone asks "where are you from?" Thankfully, he is now settled in the rolling green hills of the Peak District with his human family and fluffy sidekicks Indy and Maverick, where he writes books, screenplays, and comics.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Library of a Viking

Swashbucklers is a fun, fast-paced and insane adventure! Swashbucklers follows the protagonist, Cisco Collins, as he returns to his Dark Peak after several decades. Cisco Collins left Dark Peak for good in 1989, when Cisco and three friends had to save the world from a pirate ghost called Deadman’s G......more

Goodreads review by Nils | nilsreviewsit

”He’d come back to Dark Peak wondering if he could recapture some of the old magic. Even hoping that the monsters would return so he could fight them again. Yet it turned out you could never go back to how it was. And now the nostalgia might actually kill him.” Swashbucklers is the upcoming novel by......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange)

4.0 Stars This is an incredibly fun fantasy story that was heavily inspired by the tropes of the horror genre. While more fantastical than scary, this novel followed all the beats of horror story in the vein of IT or Stranger Things. The tone of the novel was rather light and humorous. Normally I pre......more

Goodreads review by Laura

I'm a bit confused by this book. I get the whole overarching idea, but I kept wondering if it was a sequel. It kept referring to some other epic battle from when the characters were children, and there was a lot of time spent on background based on that previous battle. It made me super interested i......more