Supernatural: The Unholy Cause Mass Market Paperback – May 4, 2010

a great supplemental supernatural novel. good story.

Pretty good it's almost exactly like the TV show if you enjoy the television series you'll like this book it's a awesome story

Like the best episodes of the series, Joe Schreiber's "The Unholy Cause" grabs your interest in its opening moments and doesn't let go until the end. It twists and turns and surprises, moving so fast that you'll find yourself at the last page completely out of breath...and wearing a big, satisfied smile.I've been a fan of the series since the pilot episode, and was delighted to discover that Mr. Schreiber seems to be a fan as well. His portrayals of the Winchesters and their supporting cast are spot-on, to the point that you can see (and hear) them in your mind's eye as you read. Not a single note rings false. His original characters are presented in just enough detail to make them interesting, and each of them offers a surprise or two along the way. His villains are scary (and smart) and present a worthwhile challenge to our heroes.Yes, it's a TV tie-in. It's not great literature. There are a few typos and a couple of small continuity glitches. But overall, the book is great, great fun, and I recommend it highly.

Takes place in Season Five.*************************There Be SPOILERS*********************Chapter One: Sneaky start so I won't spoil it. A regular guy goes on crazy rampage. One of the victim's last name is Gamble. Nod to Sera?Sam dreams about Lucifer and choking. Wakes up panicked unable to recall most of the details. They are in Georgia on a missing child case (also named Gamble - doesn't seem related to the other case so I'm wondering if the author forgot he already named a character for Sera- we'll see.) Rufus shows up with the kid and asks the brothers to go the next county over and work the case he was headed to when this other case came around.Working really hard on rebuilding their relationship with honesty, Sam tells Dean what he can remember about his dream. They show up at the Civil War Re-enactment battle field where the first Gamble was killed. Dean's his snarky self, insulting the re-enactors by saying they're playing dress-up. The re-enactors suggest they talk to the field doctor Castiel.Castiel thinks the re-enactors are real and that he has his healing ability back until Dean clues him in that they were only pretending to be wounded. Kind of funny. Castiel is there looking for someone who was around at the time of Christ. The show has gone wild with Lucifer, God and Michael, but neatly avoided bringing Christ into it, so I'm a little surprised, although the guy Castiel is looking for is really just a contemporary so it is still barely tiptoeing around him.The climatic scene: Oh my freakin freakiness. The world pretty much explodes. Moving into the climax and it is a whole helluva battle, involving the entire town, all the re-enactors, zillions of people are possessed, a lot of chaos. Cas finds his guy and that doesn't begin to turn out the way I expected. Both Dean and Sam are hurt and separated and in the thick of it. The action keeps amping up and up and up and just when there is a little lull, nope, it takes off again. Ten chapters fly by like one. The pace is fantastic.However, the reason behind what is going on and why so many demons are there, doesn't equal to the strength of the action surrounding it. In other words, the motivation of the Big Bad is just kind of meh, more of the same we've heard and seen on the show, nothing original or extremely clever. Not that I'm saying it's not a good read because of that, I was just expecting something with a little more umph or uniqueness to it. But the interplay and excitement and description (some downright gory) are tremendous. The secondary characters surprised me with who was good and who wasn't and the main one turned out to be downright sadistic. And of course what the boys do to protect and save as many people as they can (there's an edge of your seat scene with a locomotive and another with what a demon does to Sam--ahhhh, nooooo!) keeps this book at page turner level so it all balances out into a satisfactory conclusion.I'm pleased to recommend The Unholy Cause.

Now, I've read all of the spn books except "Heart of the Dragon" so far. The rest to me either hit semi-close to the boys' relationship, or hit pretty close to the creep factor. Never had I read an spn book that got BOTH and so damn well, until "The Unholy Cause."It takes place early season 5. The boys are united, but still reeling from events. Cas is in it some and Bobby via phone calls. Rufus has a short scene as well. Emotional and physical whump abounds for both boys. Up against demon armies, civil war re-enactments turn not-so-acting and on the run from destiny, determined law enforcement and history itself, the boys have to help return an ancient coil before it's too late...for them all.Some of the imagery is downright chilling and I actually found myself interested in the secondary characters.A VERY fun read! I couldn't put it down!

The author has a very creative and well-played storyline. And most importantly for having a Supernatural novel, he kept the Winchesters and their closely bonded relationship, very much involved in all of it. I sincerely hope he writes another one very soon.This was very smart, very well researched in historical aspects and religion. Nice descriptive writing style and very easy to understand, even if you're not a history buff.I think that, maybe if I were to personally add an element at all, since he DID use Castiel in the book, it would've been the comedic aspect of the angel; he played a very serious role, as he usually does, but it would've been nice to have a 'confused line' or 'misinterpretation' on Cas's part. But that's just me :). I'd read it again, and I'd recommend it to friends! Awesome book!

This story is good enough to have been an actual episode and it was written well, too. There was a healthy mix of original characters vs. Supernatural characters -- no focusing on the original characters taking up time when you really want to be reading about Sam and Dean. Bonus points: Cas was in the book for a couple of blinks of the eye, and as little time as he was in the story, he behaved exactly as you'd expect him to. (Okay, maybe it was a little far-fetched to think that he couldn't tell a Civil War re-enactment from the real thing, but still!)If you want to read a Supernatural book where the characters really sound like the characters, with an original plot PLUS a bit of Cas, this is the book.