Review: Thoroughly Entertaining!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2011
"I was considering hiring a freelance writer to make stuff up. I mean really, how many different ways can you say, "I came, I saw, I killed"!" -TeaserAshera del Cid is the best of her trade. A demon hunter to be feared by the naughty night creatures and to be respected among colleagues. Her character is full of lethal strength and wit. As the youngest ever to make junior partner in her firm of demon hunters, the respect does not come blindly, Ashera has earned every ounce.On the eve of Ashera's twenty-seventh birthday, a last minute job pops up. Double the normal rate has Valerie, step-sister and colleague, pushing the right buttons to get Ashera to make the stop before the night's end. What Ashera finds there is just the beginning to the end of Ashera's rather quiet life.Personally, I always enjoy a kick butt heroine. I like the no non-sense, take care of business kind of attitude and Ashera measures up and than some. Ashera possesses little of a social life. In her own words, she is not much of a looker but as love would have it she had found a man that loved her as is. As luck would have it, that man was taken from her. Ashera, who already possessed a natural knack for demon hunting from a young age, since losing her lover, been fueled by a new motivation- revenge. Natural talent and motivation has quickly bumped her to the top of the food chain and ultimately has become the nightmare of nightmares. Poor demons... nothing worse than a scorned woman with an arsenal of weapons.Despite praise worthy features of this novel, I did have a hard time when Ashera's true self was revealed. Basically, her initial described features is a disguise meant to keep her safe until she is old enough to fulfill her role. Mentally, I had to re-imagine Ash in my mind. With the cover looking as it does and the person I had created in my mind already, I kept having to rethink the image. I'm also on the fence with the romance between Ash and Ramiel but I am hoping with later books I'll either fall on one side or the other.All in all, I was entertained by The Last Slayer and look forward to forth coming books. Ashera's character is a major highlight and written very well.