In SIN'S DARK CARESS, our heroine is Dr. Bianca Sin, a
forensic witch who works through a special branch of law
enforcement that investigates crimes of a mystical nature in
this alternate New York City. Bianca is working alongside
homicide detective Lancelot McManus and they've been
investigating gruesome murders in which a familiar symbol
has been painted nearby. The bloody symbol stands for the
Dark Brethren, a mysterious organization behind many of the
city's crimes involving the magical community. This series
has a unique blend of various supernatural creatures that
exist alongside the human world such as vampires (Aeternus),
Animalians (shifters of different animal species), witches,
dragons, and so many more. I thoroughly enjoyed the intense
detailing of the world-building in this series.
This novel is considered urban fantasy and I even go as
far as label it a dark urban fantasy due to the graphic
murder scenes and violence. The murder scenes are even more
grisly because they involve young pregnant women who have
their babies carved out of the womb. Bianca and McManus are
desperate to stop these killings and find the missing babies
before the Dark Brethren can finally manifest themselves
fully into the world. The people who once comprised this
group are no longer corporeal and need new bodies to inhabit
in order to bring about their dark reign of terror.
Although the violence in this book is graphic, it is
necessary to the story and kept me quite engaged as I waited
breathlessly to get to the climax of the story.
SIN'S DARK CARESS is the third book in the Dark
Brethren
series by Tracey O'Hara. Although this book is a part of a
series, I felt that you could read the novel as a
stand-alone without much confusion. Luckily, the author
also provides a glossary of terms to define aspects of her
unique world building that otherwise might not be clear to a
new reader. The romance is secondary to the story and there
is very little of it, but it's obvious that Bianca and
McManus have a strong attraction to one another and I do
hope that the author continues their storyline in the next
book. There were some spelling errors that I noticed while
reading and I had a published copy and not an uncorrected
proof. Even with the noticeable errors, the story was so
engaging that I was able to bypass them with ease and it did
not detract from my reading experience at all.
An ancient darkness has risen from the ashes . . . and
terror has been loosed upon an unsuspecting world.
Forensic witch Bianca Sin has never seen anything like it:
homeless teenage girls torn to pieces by dark magic in the
cold shadows of the city. More terrifying still is the
symbol written in blood on an alley wall—the unmistakable
seal of the Dark Brethren.
Teaming up with NYPD homicide detective Lancelot McManus and
an elite task force headed by the shapeshifter Oberon
DuPrie, Bianca knows her worst fears have finally come to
pass. A new war of annihilation is looming that will plunge
the worlds of vampire, shapeshifter, and human into
chaos—and two adversarial tribes locked in uneasy truce will
need to take up arms together to save the children. Trust
will be essential for Sin and McManus, as the hunt forces
them to confront their deepest terrors.
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