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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780316003148
ISBN number: 031600314X
Label: Orbit
Manufacturer: Orbit
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 416
Printing Date: September 01, 2007
Publishing house: Orbit
Sale Popularity Level: 123287
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'Dark fantasy has a new heroine.'
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When the dead call, she answers.
Bounty hunting is a helluva job, but it pays the bills. And it lets Necromance Dante Valentine forget her issues---like struggling with her half-demon side and the memory of her lover's death.
Now psychics all over the city are being savagely murdered---and a piece of the past Dante thought she'd buried is stalking the night with a vengeance. Too bad she's got no way to tell which fiend--or friend--to trust. Or that her most horrifying nightmares are gathering to take one kick-ass bounty hunter down for the count.
But that's only the beginning. The Devil just called. He's looking for Dante's lover--the one he killed...
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This is at least a 4-star book in terms of the quality of the writing, plot, and characterizations - probably 5-star. Our wisely fearful protagonist Dante Valentine is constantly on the move with enough mystery and adventure to make it hard to put the book down. My trouble... her story is riddled with trauma: terrible child abuse, deaths of loved ones, mutilated bodies, oh, yeah, there is more. In fact, Saintcrow may be a little too good a writer because it's very easy to sympathize with Danny's grief and trauma. I was sad, bummed out most of the book even though I enjoyed the storyline. Just too dark for me. Have a steely stomach to get through this one.
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Welcome back Japh! I loved this book, it was a solid read. Very entertaining and action packed.
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This book bridges the gap between book 1 and the death of Japh and book 3 where Japh is back.
This book deals with Dante's grief and her way of coping bu throwing herself into any form of work she can find.
When she gets asked to help in a police case where people from her old school are being murdered so horribly that their ghosts cannot tell secrets, she has to face her own grief and horrible nightmares of her past to help the people who helped remove a sadistic headmaster ten years ago.
A lot of people wanted another book like book one, but for the character to grow she has to work through her intense grief at losing her lover and closing her cycle of dispair. I found it a good story, not as absorbing as book one, but just a good. We see Dante overcome her greatest fear and triumph. (We know this as there are more books)
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I found this second novel in the series to be a disappointment. For me, Danny just does way too much whining and complaining about the same things over and over in this novel. There's not really much room in here for the development of an interesting plot, most of the pages are dedicated to her personal diatribes about: Jace and Japhrimel and the boarding school. There are a few new characters but they are pretty much relegated to very minor contributions. Overall, I didn't find this novel to be very eventful. The very first one was really eventful and not solely focused on Danny's whining. I'll probably check out the third one eventually but overall the second novel was a disappointment.
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I really, really liked the very first book in the Dante Valentine series by Lilith Saintcrow. Dead Man Rising (the second book in this series) was a disappointment.
You meet up with Dante (Danny) a short time after her hunt in the last book and the "death" of Japh. Dante has been recklessly taking bounty after bounty to distract herself from her grief over Japh. Jace shows up to help her out on her bounties and has forsaken all of his connections with the mob for her. Gabe ends up calling Danny in on a grisly murder and Danny finds that these murders may be linked to something that happened at Rigger Hall (the horrible school where Danny was very first educated as a psion and tortured, etc, etc).
This book had a lot of action but it wasn't nearly as interesting and crisp as the very first book. This book makes no progress in Danny understanding her new half-demon nature. Danny spends most of the time grieving over Japh's death and, when she is not whining about how much she misses Japh, she is sitting around talking about how horrible Rigger Hall was and how she can't bear to even enter the place or think about it. I thought it was all a bit over the top and dramatic, even for Danny. I mean the Rigger Hall incidents were years ago. We all have bad memories from childhood, and hers were much worse than most, but in the very first book she seemed to be a reasonably well-adjusted person despite her tough beginning. She spends this whole book whining, grieving, and falling to pieces. I understand Danny is going through rough times but, come on, that doesn't need to be the content of the *whole* book.
I found myself rolling my eyes at Danny's dramatic and strange behavior a number of times. I was hoping all of this was going to lead somewhere profound but even the climax of her facing her fears at Rigger Hall fell dead for me. I really, really hope the third book is better. I liked the very first book a lot so I will read the third, if the third follows the second I am done with this series. So in summary this book was passable but not nearly as good as I was expecting.
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