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Skinwalker Fluch Des Blutes (2012)

by Faith Hunter(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

3802583884 (ISBN13: 9783802583889)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

LYX

series

Jane Yellowrock

review 1: Another fantastic book in this series, which is fast becoming one of my favourites already! Jane Yellowrock is a skinwalker and her most commonly used form is that of a mountain lion. Jane and Beast generally live happily as one, although Beast does try to take over at times, but saves Jane from being mesmerised by the vampires and helps with her added hearing and sight too. Jane is still in New Orleans and Leo the vampire master of the City is still out for Jane's blood for killing his "son" from the first book. Jane, however, has a contract to fulfil with the vampire's council and cannot yet leave the city. She now has to find the vampire who has been making lots of rogue vampires, leaving them to run wild in the streets, killing haplessly. At the same time Jane finds ou... moret that lots of witch children have been disappearing over the decades whilst rummaging for information on the rogue in the police department. She's not overly concerned even though her best friend Molly is currently staying with her, who just so happens to be a witch and has two witch children herself. However, when someone manages to break through Molly's wards on their house and kidnaps Angeline and Little Evan all hell breaks loose. Jane can't do anything but blame herself and as Molly is almost killed in the attack, Jane has to ask favours of the vampires, which is the last thing she wants. Jane works out what is going on, although more information is found out and realisations occur with every tiny step and the big bads become nastier, more powerful and scarier each time Jane gets a little closer to them. She only has a few days until the full moon when the kits (children) will be used for the evil purpose and Jane basically runs herself ragged trying to find out what and where things will happen. I loved all the history of the vampires in this book and how they were supposed to have been created - a slightly different take on the usual myth. Jane was brilliant throughout this book. Yes, she's a feisty girl, loaded up to the eyeballs with dangerous weapons, but she's still scared of the vamps - no showing off for this girl! And the fact that there is a little touch of romance on the horizon for her was good as well - she deserves some happy! Can't wait to get started on the next book in this series.
review 2: 3.5 starsIt's a shame as parts of this series make it brilliant dark urban fantasy which could be 4.5 stars, but there are also parts of it that for me made it boring and repetitive at times!Unfortunately the flaw of the first book with irrelevant lengthy descriptions of things seems to still be here - this time, its that we get subjected to the same information just jumbled around slightly, every time Jane/Beast shift! Yes, we know by now that she goes into a grey space and reaches for the "snake" and her bones... slide and she shifts, changes and there is pain, pain, pain!!!! ...which then leads to a detailed description of the meal she has after she shifts EVERY time. Seriously, I think I read something to that effect about 20 times now between the first two books. Also the description of her shotgun is exactly the same in this one when the marine describes it as when she talked about it in the first book! There were just quite a few things like this that stood out to me where it made me feel I was re-reading the same thing again and again. Although there was a lot of good story in there, don't get me wrong, I still felt like I was skimming irrelevant/repetitive information and it needed a tighter edit.Something changed in this one too so that I felt Jane wasn't quite so tough as she had been in the first - I really loved that she could fight well, but she seemed to keep getting things happen to her in this one and almost getting killed! So I hope in the future she goes back to being as good as she was in the first book...I don't want her to end up being one of these heroines who is supposed to be tough but needs saving every 5 minutes.I do love hearing about her Cherokee and skinwalker heritage, so every time we learn a bit more about that I was pleased - we also learn a lot of interesting stuff about the vampires that's pretty cool. Unfortunately we don't learn anything more about Rick's tattoos yet, but I'm assuming/hoping this has some relevance and to be honest its such a freaky coincidence if it means nothing that I'm surprised Jane hasn't asked him about them yet!And that brings me to Jane's love/sex-life... hhmm I'm kinda disappointed... as long as there is a good story, then I would have been happy for this to stay as urban fantasy without any real romance thrown in, although it's always interesting when there are possible love interests and there is a bit of flirting etc - although I also don't like the kind where the heroine just jumps into bed with every male character! I already mentioned in the first book how it was rather convenient that there were loads of gorgeous guys in the book and every one of them seemed to like Jane - well this one continues that and there are a couple of entanglements, but it was a bit confused. I wish that if there was going to be a romance, then it should be realistic - at the end of the book she ended up, literally overnight, in a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship, which kind of came out of nowhere considering how little we have actually really heard from this character throughout the two books so far! Not to say he wouldn't have been the logical choice, but if this was going to happen I just wish it had been done more realistically. Oh and after the sort-of sex scene early on in the book, I was expecting to get a bit more description than what we got when she finally spent the night with her "boyfriend"!! We got no details whatsoever - I didn't need graphic description, but I did feel kind of cheated all the same that we got absolutely no information, when it seems we get excessive detailed descriptions about tea drinking for goodness sake!...and then it ended with a wishy-washy epilogue...So yeah, overall I still like where the story is going and it definitely leaves me wanting to know what happens in all the loose overarching plotlines, but I am not sure if I can be bothered (or at least not any time soon), as this one left me feeling a bit deflated and a bit "meh"... less

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