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BETTER OFF UNDEAD

Better Off Undead, October 2011
by DD Barant

St. Martin's Press
Featuring: Jace Valchek
352 pages
ISBN: 0312545053
EAN: 9780312545055
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"Exciting addition to the Bloodhound Files series!"

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BETTER OFF UNDEAD
DD Barant

Reviewed by Vicky Gilpin
Posted May 28, 2012

Fantasy Urban

Jace Valchek figures she's pretty much gotten a hang of this whole being-in-a-parallel universe thing, until she has to battle a recent werewolf bite with vampirism in order to keep from losing herself. Not only does she have to focus on doing her job while trying to keep everything from erupting in gang warfare, she also gets to learn how her situation and choices affect those to whom she's closest.

The Bloodhound Files is a great series, and BETTER OFF UNDEAD is extremely satisfying for long-time fans. It can stand alone because of great exposition, but the end is more meaningful if you have read the prior books in the series. I devoured each page because the characterization and fast- paced action doesn't miss a trick. In addition, Barant's work often takes intriguing twists that surpass most other urban fantasy works.

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SUMMARY

Dark magic, unknown enemies, monsters of every stripeβ€”FBI
profiler Jace Valchek has seen it all. In this bizarre
parallel universe, shape-shifting werewolves and
blood-thirsty vampires don’t even warrant a raised eyebrow.
That is, until Jace has to face what life might look like as
one of them …

It starts off as just another run-of-the-mill assignment: to
track down the rogue don of a mafia werewolf family before
he upsets the delicate balance of the underworld. But Jace
wasn’t counting on being bitten…and soon she’s fighting the
growing wolf inside her with a startling antidoteβ€”vampirism.
Stopping a bloody gangland war won’t be easy when Jace is
feeling some new, and very inhuman, desires …

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