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Faith Hunter
Jane Yellowrock has her hands full in the latest novel in the New York Times bestselling series that captures “the essence of urban fantasy” (SF Site). Slaying vampires is child’s play for skinwalker Jane Yellowrock. But handling the complicated politics of New Orleans’ supernatural players is another story... Jane is keeping the peace between visiting groups of witches and vamps in the city, but then trouble comes knocking on her doorstep. When her house is magically attacked, the wild chase to find her assailants unearths a mystery that has literally been buried deep. A missing master vampire, presumed long deceased, is found chained in a pit...undead, raving mad, and in the company of two human bodies. Now it’s up to Jane to find out who kept the vampire hidden for so long and why, because the incident could tip already high supernatural tensions to an all-out arcane war.
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Author
Faith Hunter
Pages
368
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published Date
2016-04-05
ISBN
0451465970 9780451465979
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"<strong>Good story, not so good editing</strong><br/><br/>I love the characters and story lines, plus she has a great overall story arc, too, but--you knew there was gonna be one, right?--the last two books have not been as tightly edited. Lots more typos, and more basic mis-spellings (bur instead of but, off the top) than should have made it through, which is bad enough. Sadly, there were also several places where there was redundant writing--not just book to book, but also chapter to chapter. Yeah, I get the need to explain some things from previous books. I even get that it might be good to address it more than once in a book, but those places read almost like a cut-and-paste of the first explanation rather than free-flow thought processes.<br/><br/>Definitely worth reading, and I'll keep reading the series, and hope she fixes whatever issue (late delivery, editor on meds, rough year, whatever) is causing the lack. And I'll re-read when the next book comes out with fingers crossed that the author or publisher takes a second pass to at least fix the typos and missing/extra words so I can pop this up to a four star, which the story deserves."
Angel Ludwig