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Unperfect Souls (2010)

by Mark Del Franco(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0441018386 (ISBN13: 9780441018383)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Ace

series

Connor Grey

review 1: The Dead who came through the veil in the last book cannot get back to the world of the dead after Connor tore the veil apart. They and the solitary fae are at war over turf in the Weird. The only way to kill a Dead is to separate their head from their body otherwise they just wake up again the next dawn; still dead but re-animated.The undead confuse Murdock’s Catholic faith. His new strength is reaching dangerous levels. He can tussle with a drunken dwarf. Something Connor admits he couldn’t do but Murdock still registers as human to everyone who tries to investigate his odd body shield.And the floating clouds of Taint make everyone lose control except Connor; him it avoids. The police have backed off on suspicious orders from the Commissioner who is so anti-fae it is... more affecting his job. Murdock and Connor follow him to see which side he is secretly meeting with.Ceridwen is gone and Connor has well and truly attracted Maeve’s attention. The endless power fight between Seelie fae, Teutonic elves and the Guild intensifies. Rendered more complex by the illness of the Guildmaster Manus ap Eagan who has a wasting illness no one can identify. Always interested in Connor, he invites him to a party. His new healer, probably a spy for Maeve, tells Connor she is a figure from his past. He doesn’t remember her, (he still has some memory gaps after the nuclear accident with Bergin Vize) but their meeting triggers a disastrous event.There are some old characters back, Shay the boy prostitute and Eorla Kruge, a queen of the Teutonic elves. An earlier book was the investigation of the death of her husband. Shay has a new friend; an undead Hellhound who takes to Connor as well. Neither is sure if he is a kind of lost pet or a portent of doom. His eyes glow red at night.And then Connor finds another creature of darkness, a leanansidhe who calls him brother and Bergin Vize is back and wielding a weapon he got in the land of the dead.It ends with an uncertain future for one character; enough to make me get out of bed past midnight and go hunting for the next book. But the title makes my teeth hurt. Unperfect? Really?
review 2: This would have been a lot better for me if I had read the books that came before in this series. But when you win a book, and have no other paperbacks (that you haven't read before)to take to work with you to read at lunch, you work with what you have. I had to give up reading about 20 pages from the end because it was just too confusing as to what was going on. If I had read the previous books, I'm sure it would have been great. less

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