With so much urban fantasy currently on the market, it's
hard for a reader to find anything that feels "fresh." MOB
RULES feels fresh. I read it with the same sense of
enjoyment and discovery that I felt when the first Tanya
Huff and Laurell K. Hamilton fantasies came out
years ago.
Tough girl Domino Riley is an enforcer for mob boss Shanar
Rashan, an ancient and powerful Sumerian sorcerer. When
Domino is called on to investigate a stomach-turning
ritualistic murder, she discovers that this is no simple
hit among friends. It never is. Domino needs to find out
fast who is targeting her outfit and why.
A strong cast of secondary characters, including a feisty
pixie, step up to help her out. And there is a love
interest...kind of, in the form of her boss' son. But the
real action is with Domino as she slowly but surely cuts
her way through the magic and mayhem and to arrive at the
vortex of the mystery, where nothing is as it seemed. It
never is.
Okay, so maybe these are some elements you've read before,
but Cameron Haley tells her story with a lot of
panache. It's a good story, well-told; funny, but she gives
you plenty to think about too. Welcome to book one of The
Underworld Cycle series.
If street magic was easy, everyone would be doing it
I'm Domino Riley, an enforcer for Shanar Rashan. Like
most mob bosses in L.A., he's a powerful sorcerer, battling
for control of the city, gathering up the magic of violent
and powerful emotions ans storing it for his own use. Back
in the day, Rashan saved me from the streets and made me his
lieutenant. You could say I'm his go-to girl.
When a fellow gangster is ritually executed, I have to find
out which of Rashan's enemies was behind it--and why. The
cryptic messages I'm getting from the Beyond tell me
it wasn't a simple hit.
With the bodies piling up, I need to win an occult gang war,
take out the supernatural traitor within our outfit and, oh
yeah, deal with the mixed messages I'm getting from the
boss's son...
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