Feed Your Interest

So I *DIDN’T* end up reading Temporal Void last night. I was intending to, but I got distracted by Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow.

I’ve read her stuff before (Working for the Devil (Dante Valentine)) and really enjoyed it. It’s not particularly special to have tough-as-nails heroines flying solo against the forces of evil. But it *IS* special to have it be well-written, to have significant character growth (I personally felt Dante was a bit escapist at times…), and to have an honestly dark story. I’m not just talking about bad things happening. I’m talking about bad things happening to the heroine. I guess it’s kind of to be expected when her employer is lucifer himself…

And oh, another special thing about her series is that they actually finish… The Dante Valentine novels had a grand total of 5 books and finished. We all know how annoying it is for series to just keep going and going, with the characters getting more and more powerful, and more and more repetitive…

Back to the main topic. I just finished Night Shift, and it was good. It’s the first book of the Jill Kismet series. Unlike Dante, we learn early on that Jill voluntarily approached a hellbreed with an offer of an exchange of her services for the hellbreed’s power. She takes on the possibility of losing her soul for the real benefits of being able to fight other hellbreeds and weres 1-on-1 and come out the victor.

And it also becomes obvious early on that it is a power she needs and wields well… She is the Hunter that the police go to for help; she is the Hunter that the FBI and the CIA have respect for; she is the Hunter that the creatures of the nightside fear and avoid where possible.

If you’re looking for something in the paranormal contemporary genre, I’d recommend this as a possible book to read.

Tags: dante valentine, jill kismet, lilith saintcrow, night shift, working for the devil

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