Red Hot Fury

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Title: Red Hot Fury

Book: Shades of Fury 01

Author(s): Kasey Mackenzie

ISBN: 0-441-01892-0 / 978-0-441-01892-5

Publisher: Ace

Genre: Urban Fantasy - Romance

June 2010 : Paperback

Hell hath nothing worse than a Fury scorned...

As a Fury, Marissa Holloway belongs to an Arcane race that has avenged wrongdoing since time immemorial. As Boston's Chief Magical Investigator for the past five years, she's doing what she was born to: solving supernatural crimes.

It's far from business as usual when the body of one of Riss's sister Furies washes up in Boston harbor. Riss discovers that the corpse's identity has been magically altered, but as soon as she reports her findings, she's immediately--and inexplicably--suspended from her job. Then a human assassin makes an attempt on her life, and Riss starts to realize that someone may be trying to stir up strife between mortals and Arcanes.

When a Fury gets mad, she gets even, and Riss is determined to untangle this case. Without the support of the mortal PD, Riss turns to the one man she can trust to watch her back--shapeshifting Warhound Scott Murphy. But since Scott is also Riss's ex, she'll have to keep a tight leash on more than just the supernatural rage that feeds her power as they try to solve a murder--and stop a war...

De qué se trata?

En un mundo dividido entre humanos y seres arcanos, el departamento de policía cuenta con la colaboración de una raza dedicada a resolver crímenes sobrenaturales, las furias.

Marissa Holloway, jefa de investigaciones mágicas de Boston descubre que el cadáver recién encontrado en el puerto ha sido alterado mágicamente para falsificar el de una de sus hermanas furia, desaparecida dos años atrás.

Luego de reportar sus hallazgos es suspendida de su trabajo sin ninguna explicación y las cosas empeoran cuando un asesino humano atenta contra su vida llevándola a sospechar que alguien intenta provocar una guerra entre humanos y arcanos.

Puntaje: 5/5

Para saber más acerca de esta autora:

http://www.kaseymackenzie.com/wp/

Próximo libro:

Green-Eyed Envy - June 2011

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A Strangely Beautiful Tale

Title: The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker
Book: Strangely Beautiful 01
Author(s): Leanna Renee Hieber
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Leisure Books
August 2009



The albino beauty who has come to study at Victorian London's Athens Academy will learn not only to deal with the ghosts that she can see, but her own part in the puzzling prophecy that threatens the known world.

What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy?  Considering how few of Queen Victoria’s Londoners knew of it, the great Romanesque fortress was dreadfully imposing, and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She had never met the powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi Rychman, knew nothing of the growing shadow, the Ripper and other supernatural terrors against which his coterie stood guard. She knew simply that she was different, haunted, with her snow-white hair, pearlescent skin and uncanny gifts. But this arched stone doorway offered a portal to a new life, an education far from the convent—and  an invitation to an intimate yet dangerous dance at the threshold of life and death…



De qué se trata?
Seis niños con poderes sobrenaturales reciben la misión de proteger al mundo de la amenaza de espíritus y demonios. Una profecía anuncia que una séptima joven se unirá al grupo y con ella se desatará la guerra. Luego de veinte años de vigilia, surge una nueva amenaza: un ser sobrenatural apodado the Ripper siembra el terror en las calles de Londres.
Y justo cuando Alexi, el líder del grupo, comienza a perder la esperanza aparece una extraña joven que podría ser la de la profecía.

Puntos a favor:
Un estilo de narración atrapante y casi poético. Una ambientación interesante aunque los detalles sobrenaturales resultan un tanto confusos. Los personajes principales son queribles: el héroe melancólico y la damisela de buen corazón con misteriosos poderes. Los amantes terminan juntos y felices.

Libro de quejas:
Algunos detalles relacionados con lo sobrenatural me resultaron confusos, dándome la sensación de que ese universo no estaba bien definido ni sometido a leyes precisas.

En resumen:
Una historia de misterio sobrenatural y amor predestinado, bellamente narrada en el clásico estilo de los romances históricos.


Puntaje: 4/5

Para saber más acerca de esta autora:
http://www.leannareneehieber.com/

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The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker - Leanna Renee Hieber - Leisure Books

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