Review: Raising Urban Fantasy to a Whole New Level
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 5, 2011
Pallas had hoped living in the land-locked St. Louis area and managing a hotel that caters to the many races of beings that came across to our world when Atlantis fell would give her the safety and new start she needed, far from the sea. Yeah... that didn't work. As she tries to balance her life across two very different, but equally dangerous, worlds, she has her hands full. This strong, intelligent heroine has too much integrity to let her friends be in danger, regardless of the source. She has to deal with unknown enemies and bad-nasties on all sides, often at her own expense, but if that's what she must do, she will.The world created by Annetta Ribken is well-crafted, complex, and rich with memorable characters. The story is perfectly paced, at times "gigglesnort" hilarious, and at other times utterly terrifying. With the literary world overflowing with urban fantasy in recent years, it's difficult to stand out or have any sort of original take on the genre, but this author scores big on both counts. The entire story is so well - and believably - told, the next time I check into a hotel, I almost expect to see a Gorgon, a pixie, or a mermaid roaming the halls.