Bloodstone
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4.7 • 10 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
They call it Deadtown: the city's quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders - but Victory Vaughn, Boston's only professional demon slayer, isn't exactly human...
Boston's diverse South End is known for its architecture and great restaurants, not its body count. So when mutilated human corpses begin turning up in the area, the entire city takes notice. The killer-dubbed the South End Reaper-uses a curved blade for his grisly work. And even though there's no real evidence pointing to a paranormal culprit, the deaths are straining the already-tense relations between Boston's human and inhuman residents.
As the bodies pile up, Vicky, her formidable aunt, Mab, and her werewolf boyfriend, Kane investigate, only to find that the creature behind the carnage is after something much more than blood...
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Shape-changer Victory Vaughn (last seen in 2010's Hellforged) has no competitors in the demon extermination business. Her werewolf boyfriend, Kane, is a successful lawyer, and she's no longer stuck with a flaky teenage zombie apprentice. Life should be good, but a serial killer called the South End Reaper is making trouble for Boston's precariously placed paranormal population, already targeted by anti-supernatural bigots and deprived of equal rights (an overly transparent parallel to current events). Add in a missing roommate, an angry sister, and a niece on the verge of gaining her powers, and Victory has more than enough on her hands, especially when Kane gets prematurely turned into a wolf and stuck that way. Fans of Holzner's other Deadtown novels will enjoy this solid yarn, which competently weaves Victory's longtime personal issues into a new plot without feeling forced.
