A NIGHT OWL REVIEWS BOOK REVIEW | Reviewed by: Leslee
Special Agent Jace Valechek is having a really bad day, no make that a freaky, where the heck am I kinda day. Sucked from her reality into a parallel universe is weird enough. Add in the fact that vamps, werewolves, golems, and magic exist and humans are a minority and you need a serious reality check. Jace was chosen by the vampire head of the NSA to help them catch a serial killer, someone targeting vamps and werewolves that they have no idea how to go about catching. Mental illness, as well as guns, does not exist in this world so they had to recruit a profiler from our world. Jace signs on to help with the stipulation that when the job is done, she will be returned to her own world. But what do you do when you might be hunting a human and you aren’t sure if you are on the right side of the fight?
J.D. Robb fans, listen up! There is a new author on the block who reminds me of the magnificent Ms. Robb. There isn’t much info on the author, DD Barant but whoever they are, they have written a seriously fabulous book. Jace might seem hard but she definitely has a hidden soft center. She is tough, blunt, smart, and knows how to work a case. The world building is top notch, intriguing and wonderful. No detail was overlooked in its crafting. I was enthralled with this book; I didn’t want to put it down. The secondary characters were so well done, especially Charlie Aleph, the golem. He was my favorite, after Jace, and I loved every second he was on the page. This is the start of a fabulous mystery/police procedural series, with an urban fantasy wrapping. If you feel burn out on urban fantasy please pick up this book, you will thank me for it!!
Jul 09, 2009 | 9780312942588
5 = Rare - Top Pick | 4.5 = I Loved It - Top Pick | 4 = Good Solid Read
3.5 = Enjoyable | 3 Stars = OK - Needs a few changes | 2 Stars = It just didn't click / DNF
Book Blurb for Dying Bites
Introducing the bold new Bloodhound Files series—and a novel that will knock you out of this world…
Her job description is the “tracking and apprehension of mentally-fractured killers.” What this really means in FBI profiler Jace Valchek’s brave new world—one in which only one percent of the population is human—is that a woman’s work is never done. And real is getting stranger every day…
DYING BITES
Jace has been ripped from her reality by David Cassius, the vampire head of the NSA. He knows that she’s the best there in the business, and David needs her help in solving a series of gruesome murders of vampires and werewolves. David’s world—one that also includes lycanthropes and golems—is one with little knowledge of mental illness. An insane serial killer is a threat the NSA has no experience with. But Jace does. Stranded in a reality where Bela Lugosi is a bigger box office draw than Bruce Willis and every full moon is Mardi Gras, Jace must now hunt down a fellow human before he brings the entire planet to the brink of madness. Or she may never see her own world again…
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