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Saint City Sinners
Reviewed: October 22, 2008
By: Lilith Saint Crow
Publisher: Orbit Books
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Dante Valentine presents the reader with a different sort of problem. Three
books ago Danny, as she often thinks of herself, attracted the attention of
the demon Japhrimael (a being from a another dimension) who fell in love with
her instead of simply being her guardian as he had been assigned by his master,
Satan (probably not the fellow you’re thinking of). As a result of their
love affair, Dante was changed on a physical level, and her psychic powers amplified
along with her physical abilities. The one-time necromancer and bounty-hunter
was no longer quite human; she was hedaira, and just what that meant was a mystery
to her, one that Japhrimael has never quite explained.
In the future world where Dante lives, psychic powers and magic and very real
things and links between Earth and the dimension usually called Hell are not
uncommon. There is a strong hint that the demons have been influencing human
evolution and that Lucifer has something in mind that involves Dante and the
daughter of her dead friend.
This book returns Dante to her roots in Saint City, but the best part of these
roots have been ripped out by the murders of her two closest remaining friends,
and she swears to avenge them.
None of these problems are easily resolved, and we are left with a literal cliffhanger
on the final page of the novel, which will be resolved in the fifth and final
book of the series. In effect, Saint Crow has written a five part novel. If
I weren’t intrigued by the results, I’d been peeved by the trick.
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