In CURSE THE DARK, readers are once again greeted by Wren Valere, a seasoned Talent with the ability to manipulate electricity and use it for magical purposes. Accompanied by Sergei, her long-time partner and liaison in a semi-human world, Wren embarks on another quest, this time to Italy.
Once in Italy, Wren and Sergei are sent to retrieve a missing artifact. Armed with no information other than that the artifact is old and fatal to all who get close to it, Wren and Sergei must find this mysterious object and return it safely to New York City -- or risk their fate.
In this follow-up to STAYING ALIVE, Gilman again introduces heroine Wren Valere. However, this slow-paced novel fails to provide readers with crucial expository information that one would assume is contained in the first novel. Though CURSE THE DARK is well-written, without having read the first novel, readers will have trouble making sense of it.
Once more Wren Valere's game plan has taken an unexpected
direction. She'd agreed to a bargain with one supersecret
magic-watching outfit to protect her partner and herself on
their last job. But now the Silence is trying to wedge them
apart.
On the one hand, ever since she and Sergei began to talk
about their "relationship" things have been tricky. On the
other, though . . . Well, no one better try to stand between
Wren and Sergei when danger is near!
So now they are off to Italy in search of a possessed
parchment (or maybe not possessed -- all they know is that
whoever reads it disappears). Still, when compared to what's
going on at home (lonejacks banding together, a jealous
demon, tracking bugs needing fumigation, etc.) maybe
disappearing won't be so bad...
As if!
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