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Pete is haunted by a bad experience from her youth involving magic and death. She's now a detective inspector who deals in death without the magic. Her grown up world collides with the death and magic from her past and she forced to deal with those nightmare, rescue the missing kids and possibly a messed up mage.I really wanted to like this book more than I did. Pete seems to be a kick ass girl with plenty of personality and goodness. She wants to save everyone. Jack is a bad boy with secrets and a tortured past. Elements that sound fab to me......but I just didn't get why Pete wanted to help Jack so bad. He doesn't have a heck of a lot to redeem him, not even charm. I think possibly that the history that the author tried to portray was much more complex and indepth than she got across and thus Pete has this bond with Jack that will not allow her to give up on him. Hey I can only assume that, as this is not what came across in the story.I'm going to give the next installment a go as I'm hoping that Jack will grow on me and I will see something in him that I like and want to succeed.
��The debut of a new series from Kittredge, this book is much better than the Nocturne City books. The writing is tighter and more clever, the characters have more complexity, and the plot moves along at a better pace. If you're looking for a good dark and/or urban fantasy, I recommend giving this one a try. This series even improves with book two, 'Demon Bound', and I have high hopes for book three.
I was hoping my run of uninteresting books would end here..... yeah, no.