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A review by kblincoln
Darker Angels by M.L.N. Hanover
4.0
Jayne Heller, who inherited her uncle's fortune and his demon-hunting business, along with a "posse" of three guys with vastly different backgrounds and characters, continues along on her path of self-discovery in this second book in the The Black Sun's Daughter series.
Jayne and the boys are jetting from city to city digging through her uncle's houses and business in an effort to get some kind of handle on her uncle's knowledge of the posessing "riders" who inhabit human bodies and sometimes force them into evil acts.
Then a call from Karen Black, former FBI and ally of Jayne's uncle, brings the team to post-Katrina New Orleans.
The flavor; both physical and emotional, of a devastated city trying to come back is pervasive through the story, really adding an important layer of characterization to the wonderful continuing story of Jayne with her boys.
Relationships change; and what I love about this series is not the imaginative and so-real-I-can-taste it demon posession/voudoun bits, but how Jayne has to deal with her own lack of people skills while developing major relationships with her boys.
This is a story of dealing with destruction and coming back with building up important things like trust and caring between people.
This is about taking a second look at what might be deemed a scar or wound, and seeing how those changes might not necessarily make us stronger, but help us to survive.
We get tantalizing hints about Jayne's own past, and the stakes are raised without any super powers suddenly being discovered, a problem with other urban fantasy I've encountered. Jayne is still Jayne, and she is bruised and beaten, but not down for the count.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: Leftover shrimp ettoufe, spicier and more complex in flavor-relationship than the night before, heavy and satisfying in your stomach after you've eaten.
Jayne and the boys are jetting from city to city digging through her uncle's houses and business in an effort to get some kind of handle on her uncle's knowledge of the posessing "riders" who inhabit human bodies and sometimes force them into evil acts.
Then a call from Karen Black, former FBI and ally of Jayne's uncle, brings the team to post-Katrina New Orleans.
The flavor; both physical and emotional, of a devastated city trying to come back is pervasive through the story, really adding an important layer of characterization to the wonderful continuing story of Jayne with her boys.
Relationships change; and what I love about this series is not the imaginative and so-real-I-can-taste it demon posession/voudoun bits, but how Jayne has to deal with her own lack of people skills while developing major relationships with her boys.
This is a story of dealing with destruction and coming back with building up important things like trust and caring between people.
This is about taking a second look at what might be deemed a scar or wound, and seeing how those changes might not necessarily make us stronger, but help us to survive.
We get tantalizing hints about Jayne's own past, and the stakes are raised without any super powers suddenly being discovered, a problem with other urban fantasy I've encountered. Jayne is still Jayne, and she is bruised and beaten, but not down for the count.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: Leftover shrimp ettoufe, spicier and more complex in flavor-relationship than the night before, heavy and satisfying in your stomach after you've eaten.