Nocturnal Book Reviews

It's been a long time since I've read a book with such a sparkling witty dialogue, such interesting characters and deliciously mad world-building.

Alaskan Fury is an underdog. You look at the cover and think "No effing way!" Yes, way. It's so cool, peeps, I can't even start describing it properly.

Let's see. The beginning is pretty typical. Here is this Fury, who 3 thousand years ago was sent to kill a djinni who got out of line. In the act of desperation he called for a duel and then soul-bonded himself to her. Now she can't kill anyone because her Fury powers are gone, and she also acquired a curse of two-natured and turns into a wolf from time to time. She is bone tired, always afraid of her captive and dependent on him to get her out of danger.

For the last few years they have been holed up in Alaska, the last bastion of supernatural in the world that slowly has been conquered by the mighty Inquisition, but now the Inquisitors are here. In the Inquisition attempt to capture, torture and drain of blood the paranormal creatures who live in the enclave with Kaashifah and 'Aqrab, those two escape and try to make their way to the dragons where Kaashifah will attempt to bargain djinni in exchange for her captured friends.

Of course, 'Aqrab is not ecstatic about it. Like his captor he is bone tired of her hatred, her lashing out at him with magic every time he says something wrong, they both want to die. The miscommunication between them is so vast that right in the beginning the reader is on Fury's side distrusting the djinni, but slowly through their journey, their saving each others lives, their countless arguments, we realise that 'Aqrab is completely opposite to what Fury thinks of him.

The dialogues, the banter are top notch. The story is very complex and full of fleshed out characters. There is this Inquisitor Imelda, who narrates a lot of the book. She is young and talented, and dissatisfied with Inquisition's methods. Her hunt for the fury and the djinni is a sort of revelation for her, and changes everything she believed in before. There is her team, and scary intrigues within the organisation, there is a sweet unicorn, a stupid young and cocky dragon and unbelievably cool and sleek Thunderbird.

At last, there is an epic battle in the end, and I'm very much looking forward to reading more of Sara King. She definitely made a wonderful impression on me *grinning*