Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow
Interesting read. A little horror, a little romance, a whole lot of police procedural, well kind of, and simply a good read. I think I like this new series of books from Saintcrow.
But I should begin at the beginning. Jill Kismet is a special assistant to the police. She is a Hunter, specially trained to deal with demons, and all forms of hellbreeds. She has been trained by the best, and a good thing too, because her city keeps her very busy, fighting at night and investigating by day. As this story opens, something strange is loose and cops are dying. Jill is determined to stop it, them, whatever it is. What follows is an action adventure that is refreshingly different from many of the other gothic horrors that I have read in the last 12 months.
Saintcrow doesn’t waste a lot of time clearly identifying her evil creatures, vampire, demon, and everything evil is simply hellbreed. Weres can be any animal, not just a wolf, and generally they have established rules and move freely around human society. This provides her with a simple platform to simply get into the action and the adventure. Mostly the good guys and the bad guys are nice and obvious. But our Hunter is definitely a shade of grey.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It never took itself too seriously. Unfortunately however, I doubt very much that I will ever have the time to continue with the series. However, if you are interested, I believe book two is available.
