To Serve and Protect

Onset, Book 1

By: Glynn Stewart

Narrated by: Ray Porter

A small town cop with an unexpected gift. A shadowy government agency on the side of justice. A call no good man could turn away.

When vampires attack David White's small town, only luck, firepower, and the intervention of an elite government task force saves his life. The aftermath of the attack leaves him in the middle of the world's biggest secret: the existence of government agencies that regulate the supernatural.

They insist that David's "luck" is actually a supernatural gift, and he's immediately recruited into ONSET, the most shadowy part of America's thin blue line of police protectors.

Questioning both his gifts and the agency he now serves, David is drawn into an escalating battle that threatens all of humanity. If he isn't what ONSET thinks he is, the entire world may pay the price.

©2017 Glynn Stewart (P)2017 Podium Audio

Fast paced, progressive urban fantasy

I ended up loving this book and the series as a whole. If you like urban fantasy books where the main character is suddenly discovering his powers and growing powerful pretty quickly, this is something you'd like. It's most similar to Demon Accords and it was my searching for something similar to that that caused me to find and read this book and boy, was I happy I did.

The series is about a man, David, who is a cop in a smaller town, who finds himself being attacked by vampires. Something happens and he discovers that he's an 'empowered', which is a human who is, well, empowered. Imbued with new powers, strengths, abilities, and now knowing about the supernatural world, he's informed and asked to join a government organization that keeps the peace in face of various supernatural threats, ranging from newly turned creatures like vampires or werewolves, to awakened trolls or summoned demons.

There's lots of action and very little romance. There's a decent bit of diplomacy and politics thrown in, which I especially like when you get to see how the actual government works both within itself and when it comes to interacting with other governments, organizations, and supernatural communities.

The story wasn't perfect by any means, but it was interesting enough to keep me engaged all the way through. The best way to describe it would be very entertaining, but still fairly simplistic.

Narration was perfect. I've nothing to complain about there and Ray Porter always delivers. After seeing the interesting description, it was seeing Ray Porter as narrator that made me pull the trigger and as always, he delivers.

Overall, I loved the series. To me, there's something special about this series when it comes to that straight forwardness that, for some reason, most other fantasy series' just don't do, and I appreciate it here. The ending, without spoiling anything, left me totally satisfied and only left me wanting more. That's a win in my book.

Nice !!!!

I picked this audiobooks series by chance, not knowing nothing about it only that it was recommended by Amazon to me.
And I don’t regret it for one second.
Glynn Stewart writing is excellent, easy to follow and understand, the story is great, coupled with Ray Porter narration created a perfect Audio series.

Fully recommend by me to all !!

Dynamite story and superb narration by Ray Porter, as usual!

Cannot wait to read the next book in the series. Do yourself a favor, spend the credit. Then sit back and enjoy!

New favorite

I can’t wait for the sequel! The story was a rollercoaster ride mash-up of horror and superhero. I enjoyed it so much that I do not want to write a review that may spoil any of the story. Ray Porter was amazing as always.

God I hate

God I hate the stupid hacker she is so freaking stupid I hate her so much it makes me physically angry.