Monday 28 August 2017

Deadly Descendant - Jenna Black

As a living descendant of Artemis the Huntress, private investigator Nikki Glass knows how to track someone down. But when an Oracle shows up, warning the Descendants about wild dog attacks in Washington, D.C., Nikki is afraid it might be a trap. The Olympians believe the “dogs” are really jackals, controlled by a blood-crazed descendant of the Egyptian death-god Anubis. Whatever. . . . If Nikki hopes to muzzle Dogboy, she’s got to catch him in the act. But when she stakes out a local cemetery, she ends up face-to-snout with a snarling pack of shadow-jackals whose bite is worse than their bark. These hellhounds are deadly—even for an immortal like Nikki. “Dog” spelled backward may be “god,” but that won’t stop Nikki from teaching these old gods some new tricks. Like playing dead. 

My thoughts:
I am happy that I enjoyed this one cos I am super scared of book 2 syndrome at the moment ;)

But it was light and a fast read. And I do like those.

Nikki found out she has divine blood, and so do a LOT of people it seems, and some can become immortal (if you kill someone immortal first). And now she is stuck with a bunch of weirdos at a mansion. Another set of immortals wants to kill her and yes those guys are real assholes. The nice guys are nice and I do like their leader. Too bad she fancies someone else. Well fancies and fancies, he hates her at times but she totes fancies him.

Interesting side characters, a kick-ass heroine. Bad guys, good guys, Gods and their children.

A nice plot too with someone killing people with the help of dogs and there is a mystery to solve.

Conclusion:
Since I read this in an omnibus it felt really short, which was good ;)

Cover
Something is not right...her head?

Mass Market Paperback, 355 pages
Published April 24th 2012 by Pocket Books
Nikki Glass #2
Urban fantasy
Own

26 comments:

  1. All I can think about looking at that cover, is she not cold?!
    It sounds like a cool series, and I've got to try it out especially since it's UF! Glad you enjoyed this sequel!

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    1. LOL. Thse UF heroines never seem to be cold

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  2. This sounds good. I kind of like the cover :)

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  3. Oooh I think I need to go check out the first one, I know what you mean about 2nd book syndrome. Glad this one didn't disappoint xxx

    Lainy http://www.alwaysreading.net

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  4. That sounds like it could be good.

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  5. Oh I love this series. I need to finish out the series though. I think I ended up on the 4th one?

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  6. This sounds like an interesting series. Glad you enjoyed it.

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  7. I have the sequel of her YA series to read soon, and I am also a bit nervous about second book syndrome!

    ~Mogsy @ BiblioSanctum

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  8. A second book, light and fast - sounds good!

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  9. I haven't heard of this series but it sounds great. Glad you were able to avoid the second book syndrome!

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  10. Cool. I am not familiar with this series, but it sounds like a grow up, kick butt version of Percy Jackson. haha.

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    1. With everyone trying to murder each other yes

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