This is the first book in the series by Lillith Saintcrow, the author of the Dante Valentine books. I loved Dante Valentine, and now Jill Kismet is on the list too. In this series, Jill Kismet is an executioner/exorcist who works the Nightside bringing down the criminals that the police can't. Th...
Jill is really damaged, which makes her more real than a lot of other female characters. I was depressed while reading this book. It's full and I mean really full of blood, gore and her issues with pretty much everything in her life. Nevertheless, I liked it. The past came back in this second boo...
Fun book. Looking forward to the series. the beginning of the book was a little difficult to get into but by the end I was intrigued.
always enjoy her books Full of nice ideas, but don't any allure. Reading was very unenjoyable experience.
I enjoyed this one quite a bit - the story was interesting and multi-layered. Jill is asked by a cop and personal friend to look into something that at first doesn't seem to be her kind of thing. As a favor, she digs into it, as in the same day seems other nightmares come into play.I think the st...
Full disclosure: I didn't finish this book. I just couldn't get into it. I had wanted to read it when I read somewhere that it was steampunk and pseudo-Sherlock Holmes. There was some steampunk, yes, but no one in this book is nearly as interesting as Sherlock Holmes. I found I didn't like any of...
Since I haven't read much steampunk and I saw The Iron Wyrm Affair at the used bookstore, I knew I needed to snatch it up. When I finished TIWA, I stared at the cover for a few minutes trying to decide how I felt. There were things I loved and others that irked the heck out of me. Rating it se...
I spent the majority of this book confused. I had no idea what was going on, there were cockroaches everywhere, Saul was being a weirdo, Jill was being a weirdo, the Cirque was creepy, and Jill's "sea-urchin aura" kept spiking everywhere. I'm rating this up mainly because I like Jill quite a bit,...
Wow. Each time I finish a Lilith Saintcrow novel I'm left emotionally drained, and this time more than ever. I'm afraid to read on, yet I need to know what happens in the last installment... but I don't want the story to end. This world is terrible, terrifying, gory and dark, and from a hunter's ...
Angel Town is book 6 of the Jill Kismet series. I read the first 5 because I got them as a set, however, even as a set, I couldn't finish reading Angel Town. The biggest issue I had with the series is the main characters didn't seem to learn or change or grow, keeping everything seemingly the sam...
The second installment in the Jill Kismet series was as good, if not better, than the first. In fact, I loved it. This is dark fantasy, really dark and gruesome. Young prostitutes are found mutilated and half eaten, their entrails gone, their eyes missing. They've been taken by an unknown type of...
I enjoyed Flesh Circus. I liked that Saul was back for this book but I don't really feel like he was given the amount of time he deserved. I also liked that this was about a demon circus. I could see that happening and how people might respond to the siren's call and how the hunter simply had ...
I've found this series is getting better with each book. There's lots of action and rather gruesome details to make things interesting, if a bit stomach churning. The circus brings some interesting new characters/antagonists to the story. Jill also goes in a relatively new direction for her, away...
All through this book I kept thinking it would get better on the next page. All the build ups and most of the action was great but the main character and her interaction with Jaf were horrible. Jaf was given no personality where as there are paragraphs of the main characters problems repeated aga...
This is the third book in the Jill Kismet series, but the first one I've read. Normally I try to read a series in the proper order, but when I began this book I hadn't done my due diligence to find out if it was part of a series. Oh well. Luckily for me, this book can read as a stand-alone, and t...
I love Lilith Saintcrow's books, she is a masterful story teller with each of her created more fantastical than the last and this book is no exception. Steelflower is a wonderful book full of lovable characters, strong emotions and kick ass action, heaps and heaps of awesome action. This is the t...
I suppose that was amusing enough but it wasn't really written all that well. First, the librarian had so many stereotypical qualities that I was surprised I kept reading (some day my eyes are going to get stuck at the back of my head from rolling them so much when reading a book like this). Then...
It was hard for me to rate this book. Right now I am giving it 2.5 stars out of 5. I loved the first book (The Hedgewitch Queen) which is written from the perspective of Vianne. This book is written from the perspective of Tristan d'Arcanne, her husband, and captain of the guard, but after the sh...
The Ripper Affair was good but almost too convoluted with so many plot twists that, at times, I felt more lost than Clare if he were asked how he 'felt' about Bannon. The book starts on a very tragic note, and that grim beginning overshadows the entire book. I am very unhappy that the series will...
Just as every cop is a criminalAnd all the sinners saintsAs heads is tailsJust call me Lucifercause I'm in need of some restraintI blame Buffy for the rash of ass-kicking, smart-talking, bitchy female vampire slayers and the legions of sidekicks who inexplicably give them unconditional love.I don...
*Getting kicked around and half-strangled by the Devil was getting to be almost routine by now.*After the events in Sarajevo Dante and Japhrimel are in Cairo Giza when a message from Gabe reaches her. Dante has to go back to Saint City to help friend. But it`s going to be more than help it`s aven...
Remember those stupid movies where the animal would warn about impending danger and an asshat of a human wouldn’t listen?No, nobody remembers those movies. Everyone’s dead, over ninety percent of the population, probably more every day. Anyone left has more to worry about than the fact that you c...
When the brief codescramble of encryption was over, its whine through the earpiece enough to make him wince, he didn’t waste time on niceties, either. “Bingo, sir.” “What?” Control sounded irritated, but that was usual. The past few months had been one irritation after ano...
The empty lots outside the asylum walls were full of mortal garbage—syringes, plastic bags, greasy food wrappers, and other urban effluvia—but they were also free earth, and Robin leaned against Pepperbuckle under an anemic maple lifting its green buds in defiance of wasteland. Her fingertips fou...
Read on for a sneak preview ofPROTECTING THE COLTON BRIDE by New York Times bestselling author Elle James,the fourth book in the 2015 COLTONS OF WYOMING continuity. “Why don’t we get married?” Even though she’d known it was coming, it still hit her ...
Jeremiah had to halt to breathe, but Puck did not leave him behind. Instead, the boy-sidhe crouched, his ear-tips perked through the frayed silken mat of brown hair, his leathers creaking just a little too much. This shaded dell, tucked some distance away from one of the bone-white paths, was rin...
The knife cleaved flesh, yes, and there was a hot jet of salt-crimson blood. Then… droplets hung in midair, and the blooming within her was a sweet pain. Her Discipline roared, needing no chant to shape it. No, when a Discipline spoke, the entire sorcerer was the throat it passed through. It requ...
As lady-in-waiting at the Court of Arquitaine, she studies her books, watches for intrigue, and shepherds her sometimes-foolhardy Princesse safely through the glittering whirl. Court is a sometimes-unpleasant waltz, especially for the unwary, but Vianne treads its measured steps well. Unfortuna...