Simon and Schuster/Pocket
Mass Market Paperback 384 pages
Kindle file size: 2251 KB
November 2010.
Amazon Purchase Link for Vicious Grace
Mass Market Paperback 384 pages
Kindle file size: 2251 KB
November 2010.
Amazon Purchase Link for Vicious Grace
When you’re staring evil in the eye, don’t forget to watch your back . . .
For the first time in forever, Jayné Heller’s life is making sense. Even if she routinely risks her life to destroy demonic parasites that prey on mortals, she now has friends, colleagues, a trusted lover, and newfound confidence in the mission she inherited from her wealthy, mysterious uncle. Her next job might just rob her of all of them. At Grace Memorial Hospital in Chicago, something is stirring. Patients are going AWOL and research subjects share the same sinister dreams. Half a century ago, something was buried under Grace in a terrible ritual, and it’s straining to be free. Jayné is primed to take on whatever’s about to be let loose. Yet the greatest danger now may not be the huge, unseen force lurking below, but the evil that has been hiding in plain sight all along—taking her ever closer to losing her body, her mind, and her soul. . . .
Horrifying.
It must be horrifying to see what you have become. To think it may not be a good thing that you think is fighting the good fight; that it may be a lie.
Jayné is a very introspective young woman. It struck me while reading the book that Jayné comes from a punishingly religious family. She escaped but now without the introspective ability needed to examine what her thoughts and beliefs are. She peels her emotional scabs off. This leads us to a woman who was, at the beginning of the series, of the depressed opinion that she was a loser with nowhere to go.
I wonder if would she have called her uncle for help? Was he benevolent?
There isn’t much sexy or romantic in this novel. It is enough Urban Fantasy/Thriller/Light Horror to pull it right out of the Paranormal Romance category. It is shocking, sad, regretful and well-crafted. It starts out as a paintball/hand-to-hand fighting training. But from there it goes to some scary places.
It is a good book. A page turner. But it lacks the lighter tone Jayné could conjure in the first two books. It is the darkness that comes with the deep knowledge of mortality and that we have left our childhood behind. And with her introspective bent she can’t leave that scab unpicked.
I really like the series. “Hanover’s” style in developing Jayné’s voice is better with each story. His tone as a word smith is modern, incisive, ironic, and often witty in those situations where without a bright spot all would be lost. Like Stacia Kane's Chess Putnam, Jayné and her friends are imperfect heroes, which makes them more approachable.
Highly recommended.
AND I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU ENTER THE GIVEAWAY MADE POSSIBLE BY POCKET/SIMON AND SCHUSTER BELOW.
It must be horrifying to see what you have become. To think it may not be a good thing that you think is fighting the good fight; that it may be a lie.
Jayné is a very introspective young woman. It struck me while reading the book that Jayné comes from a punishingly religious family. She escaped but now without the introspective ability needed to examine what her thoughts and beliefs are. She peels her emotional scabs off. This leads us to a woman who was, at the beginning of the series, of the depressed opinion that she was a loser with nowhere to go.
I wonder if would she have called her uncle for help? Was he benevolent?
There isn’t much sexy or romantic in this novel. It is enough Urban Fantasy/Thriller/Light Horror to pull it right out of the Paranormal Romance category. It is shocking, sad, regretful and well-crafted. It starts out as a paintball/hand-to-hand fighting training. But from there it goes to some scary places.
It is a good book. A page turner. But it lacks the lighter tone Jayné could conjure in the first two books. It is the darkness that comes with the deep knowledge of mortality and that we have left our childhood behind. And with her introspective bent she can’t leave that scab unpicked.
I really like the series. “Hanover’s” style in developing Jayné’s voice is better with each story. His tone as a word smith is modern, incisive, ironic, and often witty in those situations where without a bright spot all would be lost. Like Stacia Kane's Chess Putnam, Jayné and her friends are imperfect heroes, which makes them more approachable.
Highly recommended.
AND I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU ENTER THE GIVEAWAY MADE POSSIBLE BY POCKET/SIMON AND SCHUSTER BELOW.
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