Book 11: Black Magic Sanction
Book 11: Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison. 487p. 2010, Eos/HarperCollins.
Reading time: March 3-5. approx 10 hours, mostly new-book squee.
I bought it on Saturday at Schuler's, when Kim was putting in an appearance to pimp her book. I read her short story in Dates From Hell and loved Rachel Morgan right away. This is the 8th book in the series, and the story just keeps moving. Unlike Hamilton, who I started reading about the same time, Harrison doesn't use sex as filler -- she uses character development. The series is a wild ride of action, like Die Hard or Lethal Weapon, and just as funny. Since this is book 8, I don't want to give too much away for those who haven't read any of it yet.
Back in the 1950s, a virus attached itself to a tomato gene and wiped out half the human population. Vampires and Witches revealed their true selves, and started taking things over just to keep civilization going while the humans bumped up their numbers. Other species have become a little more open about their existence, but there still tends to be a line between "our kind" and "their kind."
Rachel is a witch, her business partner, Ivy, is a living vampire, and her best back-up man is a pixie named Jenks. They are security for hire. Naturally, trouble hunts them down on the pretense that Rachel will destroy civilization. Instead, she focuses on destroying her enemies, who wouldn't be her enemies if they hadn't assumed she was out to destroy civilization to begin with.
Reading time: March 3-5. approx 10 hours, mostly new-book squee.
I bought it on Saturday at Schuler's, when Kim was putting in an appearance to pimp her book. I read her short story in Dates From Hell and loved Rachel Morgan right away. This is the 8th book in the series, and the story just keeps moving. Unlike Hamilton, who I started reading about the same time, Harrison doesn't use sex as filler -- she uses character development. The series is a wild ride of action, like Die Hard or Lethal Weapon, and just as funny. Since this is book 8, I don't want to give too much away for those who haven't read any of it yet.
Back in the 1950s, a virus attached itself to a tomato gene and wiped out half the human population. Vampires and Witches revealed their true selves, and started taking things over just to keep civilization going while the humans bumped up their numbers. Other species have become a little more open about their existence, but there still tends to be a line between "our kind" and "their kind."
Rachel is a witch, her business partner, Ivy, is a living vampire, and her best back-up man is a pixie named Jenks. They are security for hire. Naturally, trouble hunts them down on the pretense that Rachel will destroy civilization. Instead, she focuses on destroying her enemies, who wouldn't be her enemies if they hadn't assumed she was out to destroy civilization to begin with.