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(More customer reviews)Book 5 of Lilith Saintcrow's Jill Kismet series is much like its predecessors, with lots of graphic violence, wry commentary, and mysterious goings-on. The plot unfolds in a familiar fashion, with a house full of nursing student zombies popping up here, a pile of disemboweled bodies showing up there, and a Hellish altar materializing someplace else. All that you really need to know about the plot is that it involves a constant stream of bad stuff that keeps Jill running frantically from battle to battle. Only in the rather bitter end will the pattern behind the chaos become clear.
Like the plot, the cast of characters is familiar, including the usual cops, the usual Weres, Sanctuary lady Galina, apprentice Gabriel, and boyfriend Saul -- who, to the sure disappointment of romance fans, spends almost all of his time offstage. Melisande Belisa, killer of Jill's mentor Mikhail, also makes an appearance -- an odd coincidence, given that Jill has just learned something disturbing about Mikhail. Perry, Jill's Hellbreed patron, remains an untrustworthy ally and an unpredictable adversary. Readers who have been hoping to learn more about Perry's motivations will have gotten what they asked for by the time they reach the line "To Be Continued" at the bottom of p. 298. They will also regret not having wished more carefully.
Yes, this book is the first volume of a two-parter, but it ends in a reasonable place. Readers will be much less distressed about being left hanging than they will about the unexpected and unwelcome turn of events that precedes the concluding pages. They will be even more upset about a piece of news buried in the "extras" section of the book: the next volume, titled "Angel Town" and due some time in 2011, will be the *final* entry in the series. This is disappointing not so much because the series has been so good -- it has been just OK -- but because this ending feels forced, like a finale thrown together at the last minute for a TV show that had been plotted out for five seasons but was canceled before the conclusion of its first. I had harbored hopes that this series would develop into something really interesting, but clearly that will not happen. Sigh.
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When a new hellbreed comes calling, playing nice isn't an option. Jill Kismet has no choice but to seek treacherous allies - Perry, the devil she knows, and Melisande Belisa, the cunning Sorrows temptress whose true loyalties are unknown.Kismet knows Perry and Belisa are likely playing for the same thing--her soul. It's just too bad, because she expects to beat them at their own game. Except their game is vengeance.Nobody plays vengeance like Kismet. But if the revenge she seeks damns her, her enemies might get her soul after all...
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