I love Rob Thurman's Leandros brothers series, the two brothers fighting the Auphe and Cal's dark side, balancing their need to be able to keep moving and stay alive with the friendships they find themselves drawn into. I was delighted to discover a new series couldn't wait to get into Trcik of the Light. I did wait though, until I could pay it some attention.Thurman's books tend to be a little darker than a lot of their peers and although the new Tickster series takes place in the same world it may be darker still.
Trixa is a bar owner and part time demon killer, with her young stray's grown into hunters Zeke and Griffin. The demon Solomon seems fascinated by her and she continues to bait him, but then they are both after the same thing, the Light of Life, and they aren't the only ones. For Trixa though this isn't about Heaven and Hell, it's not about justice, it's about revenge for her brothers death plain and simple.
It's the start of a series so there is time given throughout the book to getting to know the main players and their histories, motivations but only ever in part. Rob's humour is still there but with Goodfellow just a reference in this book and not around to provide his particular brand of conversation there is less open levity. It's beautifully paced though action, searching and reflection all balanced to build and even though it's down to be a series I was still wonderin ghow the hell Trixa would get out of this alive.
A number of times I thought I was being taken down familiar tropes and new what was coming, who would turn traitor, who would come through, what angle the romance would come from, but Rob is, once again, deliciously atypical.
Rob Thurman's novels are a must for fans of the Jim Butcher/ Kat Richardson/ Mike Carey side of the Urban Fantasy market.
4 comments:
Not read any of Thurman's work yet. With a female lead, think this is something a man would enjoy or is there another Thurman book you'd recommend?
When they launched the first series they kept her picture off the book and combined with being Rob rather than Robyn I suspect it was so male readers wouldn't be put off because with UF it's hard to tell whether you are getting Dresden or Sookie sometimes
Nightlife is the first novel and it's got two perspectives so it's not the easiest to read of the Leandros books but it's where she starts and a good place for a reader to start. If you go for Trick I would say the female protag is not typical at all and should work for a man. Rob is that bit darker than most, her characters more asexual.
I've not read anything by this author before but the series sounds interesting. Thanks for the recommendation :o)
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