Cassandra's Reviews > Rite of Passage

** spoiler alert ** After reading a few of these books I have to say that John Passarella's books are the bloodiest and most carnage filled. I get that Supernatural kills off a lot of people, but for the show they usually mention it off screen (ex: when Cas was killed people as God or any of season 5), while in the books we're reading about these people and seeing it. I get it. But man is the carnage level higher in his books.

Personality-wise Sam, Dean, and what little we saw of Bobby were actually pretty spot on. Season 7 Dean was very down, he had failed with Lisa, had a Lucifer crazed Sam who he hadn't seen in a year, and was feeling the loss of Cas all in a few episodes. Sam chipper can-do attitude was weird, but then I think it's Sam, he's already weird to me.

I loved that the baddie of the week was a Japanese based spirit, Teen Wolf did that in Season 3 with a kitsune and seeing Supernatural (even if it was the books) I enjoy seeing something that's not all Western mythology/Judeo-Christian stuff all the time.

The one big thing I didn't like were the extra character input from secondary characters, holy crap did I not care about a lot of this plot. I get that 2 of the kids were tortured souls and the 1 that has a stable piece of life was the sanest, but come on. Do I really need to know their entire life stories? Plus in the show when they gank someone it takes seconds, we get the gore but not the time. In the books we have a few pages, maybe even a chapter of them just killing people. We get it, they're dead.

Stick with Same and Dean (especially Dean) and we're good.