Best podcast novel EVER!!

Of course I'm talking about J.C. Hutchins's trilogy 7th Son. J.C. is a master story teller and a great guy (I know first hand from exchanging a few emails with him). He started releasing the 7th Son novels in a serialized format last year with Book One: Descent and has just wrapped up Book Two: Deceit. This series literally kicks my ass!! At the end of every week's installment I find myself yelling at my iPod, "That's it?!?!?!? Don't end there!!!"



7th Son is an action packed thriller about seven clones who have to track down the person they were cloned from, the "Alpha," and stop him from hatching an insanely clever and evil plot to throw the planet into chaos and destruction. I was dubious at first - clones? But when I heard the bone chilling prologue I was officially hooked.

One of my favorite parts about 7th Son, and the podcast novel genre in general, is that the authors themselves are the ones reading the story. You are hearing it exactly as the author intended it to be. You also get the opportunity to get to know the author in a way that doesn't exist with regularly published novels. Like I mentioned in my previous post, the podcast community is a family and as such the listeners have the opportunity to email or leave voicemail for the author. Not only do I get to hear a great story, but I get to know great creative people behind it, too.

I highly recommend the 7th Son novels which you can find here. I can't say enough good things about them and about J.C. Hutchins himself. These books will have you tightly gripping your iPod in anticipation of each and every episode.