Review: Get omnibus if you want to about Nki Slobodian
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2013
Well written and engaging but I don't like authors who end a book with, basically, the starting calamity of the next book. Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea ends this way, and so does The Devil Is A Gentleman; it does finish the arc of the story in Before The Devil Knows You're Dead. So if have Omnibus you're good. This just a pet peeve of mine and it will stop me from getting anymore books by this author since I know she does this. If this doesn't bother you, she is well worth reading with an engrossing storyline and a complete alternate world where those who are different (psychic, mage, and the like) are placed on registry. Those on the registry aren't allowed to work, own guns, and with most civil rights taken away. It is a great story but she just hit my pet peeve nerve.The first thing we learn about Niki Slobodian is she can see ghosts and interact with them. Late one night Niki Slobodian is walking down a rainy street in the bad part of town when she notices a bar called the Deep Blue Sea. This bar, which she has never see before even though she knows this part of town. At first the bar seems like ghosts do, but it gets more substantial as she gets nearer. When she enters there is only one very old female bartender. After getting a drink there is suddenly a man beside her on the next stool. Sam knows her name, that foster grandmother is the hospital, and that she is on the registry. Sam has a job for her and he tells her he can get off the registry. Which is impossible, no one gets off the registry. Sam then explains that the seal to hell has been cracked and a Dark has escaped. Sam wants Niki to find the Dark. That is the start of this story that covers three books.