Friday, December 21, 2007

For a Few Demons More

This is the latest chapter in the Rachel Morgan saga that I have read. I get these when they come out in paperback and for my taste of the dark side of sci-fi this really has a the feel of a detective style novel in a very believable setting. In this, a couple of the characters from prior books are done away with and others return, obviously, with vengeance in mind. We pick up smoothly from the prior story about the Werewolf focus and delve more deeply into the seemingly unlimited well of power available to our dark version of Danger-Prone Daphne.
For those of you who've not read this series, which I got into quite by accident, Rachel Morgan is an earth witch in an alternate reality where most of the normal human population had been severely decimated by a genetically engineered virus transmitted by Tomatoes. Demons, Pixies, Faries, Elves, Vampires, Werewolves (dogs, foxes, etc), and trolls round out the mythical creature list to date. With the exception of Elves, the "Turn" engendered by this virus made no dent on the now significant population of other-worldly races.
Rachel's job at the start of this series was as a "Inderland" officer and with a genetic quirk foisted on her to cure her of a deadly disease, she can do this job much better than anyone else, or so we're led to believe.
Although this book is found in the science fiction environment, For a Few Demons More (ISBN 0061149810) may also be very comfortable in a couple of other sections and Mr. Dewey could just break his decimal system with this writer.
Rating: 4/5

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