User blog comment:BrianBerta/Are all ritual pastas pretentious?/@comment-27012445-20160118044939

The first time I heard a ritual pasta, I thought it was the coolest storyg but sadly, like most good things, it became saturated into commonality and eventually destroyed by mediocre rehashing of the plot, the same characters and the same outcome. That is why I wrote The Sounding of the Fifth Trumpet. It was my attempt to do something different with the ritual formula and get the reader to give a damn about the character by making the journey interesting and also having a rational reason for engaging in such high stake games.