Nocturnal Book Reviews

Egalley thanks to Bell Bridge Books
I've been a huge fan of Anthony Francis since Frost Moon came out and even left a rare (for me) raving review on Amazon, so when I saw this book on Netgalley of course I grabbed it straight away.

Oh man, fantastic writing! Complicated to the point where I had to concentrate really hard to follow it, full of action and intricate details and teeming with fascinating characters. It's more of a sci-fi type of craze where through the whole book you feel like you're tripping out. Only without spaceships.

Poor Dakota can't catch a break in this book. She is trying her best to be a mother to werekin and troubled teen Cinnamon, but then Atlanta gets besieged by evil graffity which eats indiscriminately werekin, vamps and humans and starts magical fires.

Who else but Atlanta's famous skindancer and magical tattooist can help? Dakota tries her best to fight it and loses some of her friends and lovers on the way. Police suspects she is the arsonist, vampires order her to investigate and court threatens to take Cinnamon from her...

The magical showdown in the end is spectacular, the relationship between Dakota and Cinnamon are very touching, her loss of friends and lovers make you feel sad...

Dakota is refreshingly straightforward and blunt, which usually gets her into trouble. Interestingly enough (and I pointed this out before with Broken by David H.Burton) here is another sex scene written by a male author and again it's the man who is being seduced and the woman who is taking charge *grinning*

Overall, if you like craziness of Carole Nelson Douglas you might like Anthony Francis.