Take Vegas, add several pantheons chock full of jaded god-
hood plus a multitude of immortal minions and you have a
rich environment for Jamie Wyman's debut novel WILD CARD and
any books in the series to follow. (Please Jamie, please
write some more!)
Catherine Sharp's soul was sold for love. She's been
spending more than a decade doing the bidding of the bitch
goddess Eris trying to earn it back, in her free time
between grunt tech jobs. One more task and Eris has given
her word to be done with Cat. Too bad you can't trust the
Goddess of Discord any further than Cat can throw Eris'
unctuous personal servant, Marius the Satyr.
I did a double take when I found out this book was a debut
novel. I would have bet good money Jamie Wyman had been
publishing for years. I even checked for short stories via
her blog and came up empty. What this means is that Jamie
has been honing her craft for years pretty much on her own.
Like most authors, she doesn't live in a vacuum, and she had
an editor to work with on this particular book via
Entangled's Danielle Poiesz but even with that level of help
on board it is rare I get to read a first novel with the
polish this one shows. The pace is dead on, the level of
excitement in the hairy scary scenes is piquant and perfect
and the characters have depth, energy and seem to be acting
from rock-solid motivations made clear without dragging down
the plot.
If you have a taste for urban fantasy and a kick-
butt heroine (she can really do some damage with a hammer,
this girl) I highly recommend you go spend your money on a
copy of WILD CARD and encourage Jamie Wyman to write a
sequel. I'll be waiting.
It was bad enough that gods gambled with human souls, but
Catherine Sharp's soul just had to be won by the Greek
goddess of Discord, Eris. As if working a dead-end tech
support job didn't suck the life out of her as it was. Now,
Cat finds herself performing random tasks for the goddess in
her free time.
But when Coyote, the Native American trickster himself,
claims to have won her own soul in Mayhem's weekly poker
game, Cat wants in on the action. With five sneaky gods
upping the ante, Cat needs to find a way to collect the
winning chips that could save her soul.
Marius, a handsome yet irritating satyr with his own debt to
Eris, might finally come in handy for something. If they
play their cards right and work together, Cat and Marius may
just get their freedom back. If they don't kill each
other—or fall in love—first.
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