Nikki Glass takes her job as a private detective very
seriously, especially when a call from a client cuts short
an evening with yet another banal blind date.
Emmitt Cartwright has hired her to track down his wife
Maggie and investigate the cult she seems to have joined.
After weeks of legwork she has been able to confirm his
wife's location and develop a dossier on the other
inhabitants of the house. Emmitt claims Maggie has called
and begged him to help free her, that she will be leaving
the gate to the cult house open that night. Emmitt's call is
to ask Nikki to join him, to make certain they can win his
wife free.
Although the night is dark and icy and her gut is telling
her this is a very bad idea, her alternative is to continue
the date with Mr. Snooze so Nikki agrees to meet Emmitt and
help free Maggie.
Just as Maggie promises the gate is left open but Emmitt is
nowhere in sight. As she drives toward the house, a figure
leaps in front of the car, too late for her to avoid him.
It's Emmitt, and he is most definitely dead. Bleeding,
broken and in need of medical help, Nikki is carried from
the accident to the main house and locked in a basement
room. No ambulance, no first aid, just an interrogation
from Anderson Kane (the head of the cult) and an accusation
of murder. As she begins to tell her story about how she
came to be on the property she realizes just how full of
holes it is, particularly as the cult members are acting
like Emmitt was a good friend of theirs rather than a
desperate husband of one of their members. Oddly enough,
Nikki's horrible wounds begin to heal on their own, As Nikki
realizes the cult members also exhibit powers beyond the
ordinary, it becomes clear that her life has changed
forever.
Jenna Black's new urban fantasy book has an interesting
slant on the persistence of ancient deities in the modern
world. Main character Nikki's reaction at being thrown into
the deep end of the crazy pool rings true, and Black does an
excellent job of keeping the reader guessing about who
exactly are the good guys and bad guys for a good chunk of
the book. Although parts of the storyline did not appeal to
me directly, the book was well-written and I would still
recommend it as a new take on urban fantasy. DARK DESCENDANT
is book one in the Descendant Series.
From the acclaimed author of the Morgan Kingsley, Exorcist
books comes the gripping first novel in a new series about
a private eye who discovers, to her surprise, that she’s
an immortal huntress.
Nikki Glass can track down any man. But when her latest
client turns out to be a true descendant of Hades, Nikki
now discovers she can’t die. . . . Crazy as it sounds,
Nikki’s manhunting skills are literally god-given. She’s a
living, breathing descendant of Artemis who has stepped
right into a trap set by the children of the gods. Nikki’s
new “friends” include a descendant of Eros, who uses sex
as a weapon; a descendant of Loki, whose tricks are no
laughing matter; and a half-mad descendant of Kali who
thinks she’s a spy. But most powerful of all are the
Olympians, a rival clan of immortals seeking to destroy
all Descendants who refuse to bow down to them. In the
eternal battle of good god/bad god, Nikki would make a
divine weapon. But if they think she’ll surrender without
a fight, the gods must be crazy. . . .
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