Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed on + 1568 more book reviews
I didn't realize this was part of a multi-book, multi-author series when I picked it up. So perhaps that has a bearing on my feelings that it is a little choppy.
The basic premise seems to be like that of Kim Harrison's Hollows or the Sookie Stackhouse books. Werewolves, vampires, demons and other supernaturals are present, active, and well known in current-day Los Angeles. The co-exist, but not happily.
From back cover: Los Angeles. Once, it was the City of Angels. Now, its Crimson City, whose inhabitants know nothing of Heaven. The tentative peace between the species -- werewolf, vampire, human -- teeters on the brink of collapse. Sides are being chosen. Yet the peril is greater than any imagine. There is a power here that longs for release, an ancient darkness held captive too long. Below, beneath, beyond, it seethes. And there are those who would see it freed.
Mika herself seeks freedom. Shes come to Crimson City looking for the key. But that keys keeper is a killer, an outsider, a mercenary with a poisoned past. To her kind, he has meant only death. No matter that Conor McCabes pale green eyes hold a hint of lust, the glint of a bond never to be broken; the path ahead lies in shadow. In a city like this, death can come by fire or fang, by claw or kiss. And the moment of truth must come...Through a Crimson Veil.
The basic premise seems to be like that of Kim Harrison's Hollows or the Sookie Stackhouse books. Werewolves, vampires, demons and other supernaturals are present, active, and well known in current-day Los Angeles. The co-exist, but not happily.
From back cover: Los Angeles. Once, it was the City of Angels. Now, its Crimson City, whose inhabitants know nothing of Heaven. The tentative peace between the species -- werewolf, vampire, human -- teeters on the brink of collapse. Sides are being chosen. Yet the peril is greater than any imagine. There is a power here that longs for release, an ancient darkness held captive too long. Below, beneath, beyond, it seethes. And there are those who would see it freed.
Mika herself seeks freedom. Shes come to Crimson City looking for the key. But that keys keeper is a killer, an outsider, a mercenary with a poisoned past. To her kind, he has meant only death. No matter that Conor McCabes pale green eyes hold a hint of lust, the glint of a bond never to be broken; the path ahead lies in shadow. In a city like this, death can come by fire or fang, by claw or kiss. And the moment of truth must come...Through a Crimson Veil.
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