Dark Currents

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Call Number: Fantasy, Adult Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Carey, Jacqueline
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fantasy	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Carey, Jacqueline	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"Small town Pemkowet, Mich., is a popular tourist destination for humans. It's also home to a thriving 'eldritch community' of supernatural entities, thanks to the presence of the local underworld controlled by the Norse goddess Hel. Daisy Johanssen, a half-demon trying to dodge her innate attraction to the 'Seven Deadlies' while functioning as Hel's agent on Earth and the local link between the eldritch community and the human police, is called in to help investigate the drowning of a local college boy when signs of both foul play and magical residue are found on the body."

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Love this author, love this book submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 14, 2013, 8:19pm I will read anything that Jacqueline Carey writes, no questions asked. But that's about whether I'll pick it up. From there she has to earn a good rating. Once again, she did.

The two downfalls of this book to me are (1) that it plays into the whole current vampires and werewolves variation of fantasy, which is simply not my interest, and (2) that her 24 year old heroine feel juvenile enough to be more like 18. It's also much lighter than some of her other work.

But letting those go, Carey creates great characters, draws out a realistic universe that makes you want to live in it (even if ghouls that feed on your emotions do exist there), is internally consistent in ways that other authors dream of, and has created a wonderful and compelling storyline with a great mystery and drama that completely sucked me in.

Book candy, in the best possible sense. I didn't want to put it down.

And the book's climax? Perfect, pulling together various characters' strengths, weaknesses, attributes, and very natures in perfect and yet unexpected harmony to... well. You'll have to read it to find out.