Skinwalker

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Call Number: Fantasy / Hunter, Faith
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind--a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires--and hunts the undead for a living. But now she's been hired by Katherine Fonteneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans and the madam of Katie's Ladies, to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who's killing other vamps. Amidst a bordello full of real 'ladies of the night,' and a hot Cajun biker with a panther tattoo who stirs her carnal desire, Jane must stay focused and complete her mission, or else the next skin she'll need to save may be her own."--p. [4] of cover.

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Ultra-derivative urban fantasy. submitted by eknapp on March 27, 2014, 5:52pm In a slightly alternate history version of New Orleans, a rogue vampire is slaughtering cops and hookers and hermits and yuppies and vampire royalty--pretty much everybody, really. It's bad for PR and tourism and vampire-human relations, and goshdarnit something has GOT to be done. So the vampire council of New Orleans brings in professional vampire-slayer Jane Yellowrock to hunt down the rogue. It's an awkward relationship.

Skinwalker is a total hack of Patricia Briggs's Mercy Thompson series. Let's see, vampire killer...check. Droll and deadly...check. Last of the Indian skinwalkers--who have special skinwalker vampire-killing qualities!--big fat check. Badass combat-trained female shapechanging hero, chackorama. Recent vamp community-revealing alternate history, check check checkitycheck.

And doesn't Anne Rice own the rights to the New Orleans-vampire setting? The way Stephen King owns the rights to the small-town-in-Maine setting?

Anyway. Not much meat here but it's easy enough to read I guess. There's loads of chaste flirting with dangerous-bad-boys-with-good-hearts and a weak who-is-the-rogue mystery plotline.

Yeah, I KNOW that everything is derivative to some extent. There are only four stories, no new ideas under the sun, yadda yadda. But in this case it was ridonkulous. And not even as GOOD as Briggs. Maybe that's the worse of the sins.

Jane Yellowrock book 1 submitted by pamhockey25 on July 9, 2018, 10:59pm Skinwalker is the first in an urban fantasy series that explores the life of a woman who can shift into a mountain lion. Since this is the first in the series, I hope the series will improve. There was a little too much telling and getting into details that didn't really seem to matter in the book. At one point, the main character goes into a home and the author describes the layout in great detail. Why? I thought there was going to be a reason for knowing where the rooms were in relation to each other but no...I find that kind of boring. However, I did like the concept and some of the characters that were introduced and I do want to know more about what will happen with this character so will continue with the series for at least a few more books to see if I can enjoy them more as the writer finds the character...

I did have to force myself to keep reading, so we shall see if that trend continues or not.