Hidden

The Immortal Doc Holliday Series, Book 1

By: M.M. Crumley

Narrated by: Michael Cummings

Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Soul eating tattoo. Check

Magical self-replicating knife. Check

Nearly two-hundred-year-old score to settle. Double check.

Meet the Immortal Doc Holliday.

Lying on his deathbed, Dr. John Holliday was offered a choice; let the tuberculosis finish its work or accept immortality. Doc chose the latter, knowing full well that such "gifts" don't come cheap, but damned if the last hundred years haven't been a blast. Partying, playing, fighting, killing; yes, eternal life's been good... But the time to get serious has finally come, and the task he's always known he was saved for is at hand.

Now in modern-day Denver, Doc will be pushed to his limits to keep his promise and save the missing descendant of the beautiful shaman who gave him everlasting life. The trouble is things aren't going as planned, and it's becoming clear that there is far more at stake than Doc bargained for...

It has the perfect blend of supernatural action, humor, and mystery that you crave! Welcome to the hidden world of Amazon Bestselling author M.M. Crumley.

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THE IMMORTAL DOC HOLLIDAY Ongoing Series Titles

Book 1: Hidden
Book 2: Coup D’éTat
Book 3: Ruthless
Book 4: Instinct
Book 5: Rogues
Book 6: Empire
Book 7: Omens
Book 8: Chasm
Book 9: Feral
Book 10: Oblivion
Book 11: Relentless

©2021 M.M. Crumley (P)2024 M.M. Crumley

Meh

It's not terrible, and the poor voicing of it hurts it a lot, but it still just wasn't that well written. Main character was pretty boring and the side characters were all the typical sidekick levels, just not amusing or interesting enough.

great book

at first, I thought this book was going to be boring. I am so glad I continued the story. Now I need to know what happens next

Predictable and Unlikable Main Character

Little underlying structure to magic. Seemed to do what the writer needed except for the whole plastic thing. The main character is unlikable. He is a murdering alcoholic. The only thing that intrigued me was the living house. Poorly written conversations. I get tired of the main character always being a jerk and bantering back and forth with every other character. Over all a poor read. I doubt I will move on.

Awesome Series!!

I am having the best time with this and the Andrew Rufus series (same world). These are fun books with plenty of action and lots of backstory. The characters are super likeable and the villains get their just rewards! The poor reviews made me think on this one for a long time before I jumped in but I am so glad I did. The first book in a series is always a little clunky. Give this a shot and know that as the story moves along it becomes hard to turn these books off.

As for Michael Cummings, he is fantastic! He has a wide range of voices and is very good at using the same one for the correct characters all the time so that you know who is speaking from voice alone. His timing and cadence are spot on and in 15 books I've only heard him mispronounce a couple of words which is super refreshing.

It took a while but was good in the end

I couldn’t help but feel all of the similarities to the Dresdin Files. Advisory talking plant vs a skull. But in the end the story took on more of its own and the ending was action packed and fun. Enough for me to read the next one.

Don’t discount the book yet

The story is so/so but that’s not uncommon in new series. There’s a lot of potential here so I’m hoping the second and third books start bringing it all together.

Not My Normal Mil-lieu But Not Bad

I wasn’t sure what to expect given that this was a book with a character from the old west in a vastly more modern setting. I am glad to see that it isn’t a complete like fish out of water story & that Doc Holliday has some supernatural abilities to help him fend for himself. I’m not sure where the end result is going seeing as how the “little girl” he was supposed to rescue isn’t as he expected, but I guess that is the type of stuff that requires the reader to read on. Here’s to whatever comes next.

Mostly just sets the stage for the series

There are some new twists to the urban fantasy setting and a somewhat original variation of Doc Holliday. Frankly, I think the Doc Holliday character and world of the Wynona Earp TV series gave a better supernatural twist on a modern day Earp with a (demon) soul eating gun. Here, Doc has a soul eating tattoo and never once fires a gun. Why have him forego guns? I’m not sure there’s a good reason. And the whole sleazy womanizer, inveterate gambler and booze hound thing doesn’t make him an anti-hero; Doc is simply a schmuck who’s done nothing to improve himself in over a century. When we meet him, Doc is still going on blackout binges and sleeping with engaged women. He also doesn’t do any good deeds unless there’s something in it for him- namely, paying a debt by saving a gal.

Book 1 provides Doc’s origin story through a jumble of confusing flashbacks. Between the dead affect narration and the lack of signposting, it took me a while to realize when the story was in the past vs. present. For every explanation given about Doc, the magic rules, the various magical beings (cryptids), and how cryptids stay hidden from humans (normals), I feel like there are a dozen explanations lacking. You need to pay attention because the author will describe what Joury looks like, or what kind of a magical being Jarvis is only once. For that matter, there’s a lot of fade to black scenes, whether in the womanizing, fighting, or the main mystery.

I think I might have liked the story better with someone like Luke Daniels narrating. The narration is flat, making it hard to distinguish between the multitude of characters. Moreover, the lack of emotion dulled down scenes that should have felt action packed, suspenseful or heartfelt.

But, then again, the writing glosses over fight scenes, having Doc kill with ease to the point I never felt he was in peril. The author makes excuses for a lack of thought out magic vs science system, constantly telling us that Doc just doesn’t understand either, as if that means we too should just accept magic rules, like how a magic pebble boosts power or that three people can walk away from a car crash at 80mph into a magic wall.

Having said all the reasons why this was a middle of the road listen for me, there were still things
I enjoyed enough to wishlist book 2 and wait for a sale. I liked the slow burn Legolas/Gimli banter and
kill-competition between Doc and Joury. Talking plant Thaddeus, who is both lush and a lush, grew on me (😜). And, the Constantine-ish feel of the hidden world of cryptids and the promise of creature-variety make me willing to give this new author a chance to improve from his freshman offering.

great story

The premise is original. the characters are developed well. wish the rest was on Audible.

So good until the end.

The ending makes the rest of the book feel like an introduction to the world but makes everything that happens to that point meaningless. I was loving every bit of it until the last chapter.