I hope you had a great weekend, for my part i enjoyed my reading time. Like i told you already, this month i will choose mostly urban fantasy book to review and there is one author i really wanted to share with you: Suzanne Johnson. If you follow my blog you know she is an author i really admire and that she is also writing an paranormal romance series : The Penton Legacy under the name Susannah Sandlin.
As Suzanne Johnson she is writing urban fantasy and i love her writing style in any of those genre really, she is writing with her heart and you get to feel it a lot in " Royal Street" first book of the series Sentinels of New Orleans. For the fans out there now it also exist an UK version of this book and both edition of book 2 River Road will be released in November ( US 13th, UK 27th) so you just have to the time to discover this book to be ready.
Happy Reading
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication: 2012
ISBN: 0765327791
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Violence: mild
Language: normal
sex: none
Public: 18+
Source: received from the authorViolence: mild
Language: normal
sex: none
Public: 18+
Short description from goodread :
As the junior wizard sentinel
for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing and
pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and
lethal were-creatures. DJ's boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard
tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip over
from the preternatural beyond.
While winds howled and
To make it worse, Gerry has gone missing, the wizards’ Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as DJ’s new partner, and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her walk his plank. The search for Gerry and for the serial killer turns personal when DJ learns the hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the unlikeliest places, and duty mixed with love creates one bitter gumbo.
My opinion:
I’ve waited a long time to get this book so when the author sent it to
me I was ecstatic and could not believe my eyes. I was in Paradise however I’ve not
started to read it immediately I needed to made another review before and I
felt this book was more appropriate for this month..; I guess I was in fact
anxious and a bit afraid to be disappointed. I’ve read so many wonderful
excerpt, saw so many compliments I
wanted to take my time and make my own opinion because I really admire the
author but it’s not a guaranty I will love all the books she writes.
Now I can’t wait to read book two and
I’m feeling a bit stupid for having been apprehensive. I really loved this book
even if it’s not yet one of my favourite series; it could easily become one
since I want more and this first book is really promising.
First, if I want to be impartial I have
to admit that it’s not overly, completely original. We are finding the big
lines of the Urban fantasy genre and some allusions to other series too (
walking staff anybody? Staff with his own mind?
Yes you got it! There is a walking, sentient staff in the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs one
author that Suzanne Johnson loves and admires- no it’s not exactly the same at
all)
Now that’s quite normal too, when you
write in a genre you have to keep the standards of it and such but what will
make the difference is how it’s writing and the story in itself.
On that side, Suzanne Johnson did really
well. She put the story in a city she knows well and more important one she
loves very much and you can feel this love when reading. Also she used a real
event for the starting point; the story starts and develops in parallel to the
Katrina hurricane and its consequences. We get the feeling of the population and it
gives us another point of view about this events. I particularly loved the
small excerpt of newspapers above several chapters that gave me more complete
understanding of the events. Living in Europe of course we learned about the hurricane and saw the disaster in the
news days after days but for example we weren’t told another tempest came
shortly after and I can understand the feeling of despair of people who had
already been truck once and had to see that coming once again. I really admire
they courage and persistence in rebuilding. The author managed to make us feel
part of this drama and feel compassion and respect for theses survivors.
That gives a special elements to the
story and the fact it takes place in New Orleans a city with such a rich
history, really well introduced in the plot, just make it more believable. If
there is some magic somewhere in the States it would be there it makes sense.
The characters are well constructed, but
still mysterious. We have learned a bit more about DJ's past but we don’t know
all the consequences yet. Alex we have learned about his family but just got a
glimpse of his past and there are so many questions about Gerry like how it
happened, when etc. Then they are all the historical figures, I really loved
those and learning about their history it’s a great asset for this universe.
The characters still having so many secrets it’s really promising for the rest
of the series because I want to learn more as well as the other readers I’m
sure. After all, we will see more of Jean and that will be fun.
I’ve spent an excellent time reading
this book even if the ending give us more questions than closure it did not
bother me like other books, in a way it even seems normal and I really want to
see how the relationship between the characters will evolve. There are some fun parts but few and it’s
normal: we meet with DJ when she is living a dark time after all but we can
hope for more fun in the future and a
lot of potions surprise in bonus ( who
knows^^).
Second book River Road
Score: 4/5
Source: a copy in exchange for a honest review, no other compensation
was received.
If you want this book you can buy it on amazon or on Bookdepository
You can find more informations on the series and Suzanne on her Blog
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