martes, 31 de julio de 2012

New Orleans sobrenatural

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Title:  Royal Street
Book:  Sentinels of New Orleans 01
Author(s):  Suzanne Johnson
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher:  Tor Books
April 2012 : Paperback


As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco's job involves a lot more potion-mixing than sniffing out supernatural bad guys. DJ's mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that slips over from the preternatural beyond. Then Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans' fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood waters. Now the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering soldiers sent to help the city recover. To make it worse, Gerry has gone missing, the wizards' Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as DJ's new partner, and an undead pirate wants to make her walk his plank. DJ will learn the hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice ...and duty mixed with love creates one bitter gumbo.


De qué se trata?
Misterio sobrenatural durante el caos originado por el paso del Huracán Katrina por New Orleans en el 2005.

Puntos a favor:
Sentido del humor. Personajes interesantes. Buen ritmo. Historia atrapante y bien narrada.

Libro de quejas:
Demasiados personajes solo conocidos a nivel local, cuya aparición es simplemente anecdótica. La identidad de Gandalf es obvia. Un final no precisamente feliz.

En resumen:
El mejor debut de urban fantasy de este año, hasta ahora.

Puntaje: 4/5

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