This is a new author, a first book, it has a great cover and a fun
story on the inside.
This is an urban fantasy novel that was refreshingly original. Sure
it had a vampire romantic interest, BUT the focus on Ryu was NOT
that he was a vampire but that he was an investigator. And not once
ounce of emo, tortured vampire was squeezed out of this character,
or any of the characters for that matter. This book has selkies,
kelpies and nahauls (oh, my!). It has gnomes and naga and Alphars
(elves, really, but don't call them that). There are no faerie
courts or stand-offs between vamps and weres. There is no love
triangle. There IS a lot of sex, but it's not graphically
descriptive (thank the gods!) and although it was a little too in
the forefront of the book, it was easy (for me) to skip over and
get back to the mystery. Yes! There is mystery! Woohoo!
Twenty-six year old Jane True ends up in the middle of a murder
mystery which somehow is connected to her and she discovers that
she isn't just a normal human who likes to swim in the ice-cold
ocean and who doesn't need a coat in the winter. She has a past
that continuously haunts her in the small town she lives in in
Maine. She finds out a lot about her present and past in this book
that she never knew could even be possible. She grows as a person
throughout the novel and regains confidence she had lost years
ago.
I am terribly anxious for the next book which will be released in
July 2010.