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Third Shift Society, Vol. One (Third Shift Society, #1)

Third Shift Society, Vol. One by Meredith Moriarty

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a lucky find at the library as I don't get Webtoon (because I'd probably get nothing done if I did) and I enjoyed. Is it anything truly new in the urban fantasy, Buffy/Supernatural sort of genre? No, not really but that doesn't mean it wasn't fun.

Ellie is just your average girl in the city who lost her job and then runs across a pumpkin headed man in an alley battling a monster. Compelled to help (as Ellie is pretty sweet), she learns she has psychic powers and when Ichabod i.e. the Pumpkinhead offers her a job, she says yes. The job is relatively a simple one, they investigate places of supernatural disturbances.

She doesn't nearly as many questions about all this as I might have liked and Ichabod dodges the one she did ask (why is your head a pumpkin). We have them dealing with ghosts from immurement, spiritual snakes things, bug men, demons and a surprise visit from someone who looks a lot like Alice in Wonderland.

Ellie does do the one thing Ichabod asked her not to: to go solo on a case and naturally it goes not as well as she'd like. Vol 2 will probably be dealing with the consequences of that choice.

I like Ellie, Ichabod and Simon (Ichabod's friend and supernatural doctor). I'm looking forward to more of this. The art is excellent as well.

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