Series spotlight: The Blake Moran Series by Davie Mac

 

An ad for this author and his books pops up fairly often on Facebook. A few months ago I started the first one, Too Young to Die, but quit after 8 pages. 

 The books are first person point of view, and are written in a different style. I decided to give them a try again this week, and ended up reading all four books.

  The main character is Blake Moran, an early 30's single guy who runs a private investigator business. 

 I mentioned the writing style being different. Blake's rambling thoughts are part of the book. He will privately make jokes that amuse him, state that he said something out loud that is shocking, then say he actually didn't say it. Once I got used to it, I found the books very amusing. It is hard not to laugh out loud while reading these books. 

 The books aren't quite Christian fiction. Blake is not a Christian til the fourth book, but becomes friends with a pastor and has a lot of chats with him and does start going to church at one point.

 But they are clean, and bad language free.......for the most part. In the third book, the word for a female puppy dog is thrown around a few times, in addition to "bastard", and not in the original sense of the word. What is really sad, is the author is a pastor. I wonder if he ever preaches on bad language. Sorry, not sorry. It is a pet peeve of mine when Christian authors put inappropriate words in their books.

 But other than that, these are excellent books. It is refreshing to have books like these where the male character is the main character, and the book centers mostly on him. The Christian fiction market is geared way too much for women.

 I will briefly hit on two other negatives for the series: 

1) They are written first person, and the author occasionally goes to third person for another character. That is OK and cool. However, he needs better editing, for he occasionally messes up and goes to third person for his main character. Sometimes in the same paragraph. It happens a lot, and is obviously a mistake.

2) In a couple of the books, there is debate in classrooms. One in a high school classroom, and one in a college classroom (where the b-word gets tossed around). Even though I agree with the author on the topics-  Creation vs evolution  and global warming - I felt too much time was spent on the issues, especially global warming as it had nothing to do with the plot of the book.

  But even with the negatives I pointed out, these are really interesting, suspenseful, and entertaining reads. Blake is a hilarious character that drive even the people who love him crazy, but he gets the job done.

 An example of his thinking: he is on his way back to the mansion of the guy who hired him, driving a 9 million dollar car the guy loaned him, and said he was pretending to be Batman on his way back to Bruce Wayne's mansion. Then says not really. Then he says, "yeah, I actually did."

 I do recommend these books, with the warning about the language in the third book. I read all four books in the last few days, and enjoyed them immensely. 

 They are on Kindle Unlimited, and there is a fifth book in the works: The Conspiracy Cabal. No date given.

About the author:
Davie Mac (aka David McAllister) is Pastor of a multi-location church and resident of Tucson, Arizona, and has always been a big fan of the “who-done-it” genre. He combines the suspense and humor he so enjoys and weaves in answers to some of the biggest question our society has about life, God, Jesus, and the Bible. David has already completed the third book in this series and is working on the fourth and the audio books. Professionally, David founded and has pastored the Bridge Christian Church for over 30 years. He is also a song writer, having written over 50 songs to date, he plays the drums in a band, and is an avid weightlifter. David and his wife Kimberly have seven children and fourteen grandchildren.

Check out his website: DavieMacbooks.com  By the way, his hair style looks like what he describes for the pastor in his books. 😀