I have a new book series obsession
I have just finished Adrian Phoenix's A Rush of Wings, the first book in The Maker's Song, a series of dark urban fantasy novels (they are not romances, though there is a romantic thread), and I need more asap (luckily, three more books in the series are out).
Heather Wallace, a Special Agent for the FBI, has been on the track of a grisly serial killer known as CCK (Cross Country Killer) for a while. His latest crime has let her to New Orleans and a young Goth musician known only as Dante - soon Heather realizes that the killer is changing his modus operandi and is committing crimes to attract Dante's attention - but why that is, is the real question. Oh, and Heather is about to discover that vampires and other things that go bump in the night are real.
This book can get somewhat gruesome and is definitely very dark, so if that bothers you, stay away. If not, you should totally read it! I hesitate to give too much away, but there are creepy Government experiments, some good world-building, and protagonists (Heather and Dante) who I really...well, "like" might not be an appropriate word, but who I certainly root for desperately. I loved the writing style and I shipped Heather/Dante like mad (I dare you to not ship them - I dare you!). Heather is a great, tough, no nonsense heroine with the requisite past family tragedy (her mother was killed and her sister is in a psych ward from mental illness), who doesn't have that tragedy break her in any way. Dante is...well...I think the award for the worst past/childhood/life award has now been claimed. I actually spent the book hoping he would continue to black out his past! I mean, seriously. He's clinging to sanity by his fingernails and I am surprised he hasn't let go of that ledge a long time ago. (Though my favorite part of the book is when he does finally snap under all the stimuli and temporarily reverts into the part of him that is the Government-created psychopath and we read things from his POV).
Anyway, it was wonderful and dark and Heather/Dante forever, and I am off to get Book 2.
Btw, yes, I am getting a goodreads account :) Tomorrow.
Heather Wallace, a Special Agent for the FBI, has been on the track of a grisly serial killer known as CCK (Cross Country Killer) for a while. His latest crime has let her to New Orleans and a young Goth musician known only as Dante - soon Heather realizes that the killer is changing his modus operandi and is committing crimes to attract Dante's attention - but why that is, is the real question. Oh, and Heather is about to discover that vampires and other things that go bump in the night are real.
This book can get somewhat gruesome and is definitely very dark, so if that bothers you, stay away. If not, you should totally read it! I hesitate to give too much away, but there are creepy Government experiments, some good world-building, and protagonists (Heather and Dante) who I really...well, "like" might not be an appropriate word, but who I certainly root for desperately. I loved the writing style and I shipped Heather/Dante like mad (I dare you to not ship them - I dare you!). Heather is a great, tough, no nonsense heroine with the requisite past family tragedy (her mother was killed and her sister is in a psych ward from mental illness), who doesn't have that tragedy break her in any way. Dante is...well...I think the award for the worst past/childhood/life award has now been claimed. I actually spent the book hoping he would continue to black out his past! I mean, seriously. He's clinging to sanity by his fingernails and I am surprised he hasn't let go of that ledge a long time ago. (Though my favorite part of the book is when he does finally snap under all the stimuli and temporarily reverts into the part of him that is the Government-created psychopath and we read things from his POV).
Anyway, it was wonderful and dark and Heather/Dante forever, and I am off to get Book 2.
Btw, yes, I am getting a goodreads account :) Tomorrow.