Review: From the Aether Vitalis universe
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2013
"A Wild Hunt" is an urban fantasy with paranormal creatures. According to Loomis most of the "Aether Vitalis" stories are dark. "A Wild Hunt" could be considered dark fantasy in my opinion.In "A Wild Hunt" we deal with death magic and its apparently willing victims. That is what can happen when dark witches are in your neighborhood. Good job the neighborhood watchperson - well skinshifter - is close by.At the beginning of our tale Ariane Conant seems to be your typical drooling college student. Her job is to protect humans from finding out too much about the faery community. That one of the humans she ends up protecting just happens to be her drool object just ups the ante for her. She goes from an empty-headed drooler to a dangerous woman to cross in a magical battle."A Wild Hunt" was a pretty good short story. There are limits to how much background and info you can cram into a story this size, but Loomis did manage to give us a little. Mainly we had action from the very beginning and the story did not slow down as it went along.Not too violent and no explicit sex.[...]