Wednesday, December 15, 2010

First Drop of Crimson (Night Huntress World book 1)

by Jeanine Frost.

This is a spin off of her Night Huntress series. Instead of following Cat and Bones (although that series will continue and they are in these books a bit), they follow side characters we have met along the way.

One thing to note and I was QUITE disappointed about this ... do NOT read this until after reading book 5 of Night Huntress (which is not out yet!) - This Side of the Grave. It appears that this book takes place after that one and a major plot development is given away (boo!).

Anyhow, as a book on it's own this one was great! It follows Spade who is friends with Bones/Crispin and you also get to know their other mutual friend Ian a bit better. I assume Ian will be a future book.

Spade gets involved helping Cat's friend Denise with some Demon issues. She has PTSD issues when around vampires from her time spent with the vampires in an earlier book when her husband was killed - this at least was in a book I had read. Spade has relationship with human issues so there are some barriers to them being together, none the less it is intriguing and the author is quite good at keeping the story moving forward.

I'm not as excited about the next but that might be because I dont' know the characters too well that star in that one.

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