Jane Yellowrock rocks again with "Dark Hair" (Heir)
You may have noticed that I haven't written much on my blog--it's never been completely natural to me to pore my heart out on the page every day and wait for people to give me "thumbs up" and "you go girl!"'s And RL gets in the way far too much with a mother who's been really sick and seems less with me every day (80 yrs old in two weeks...I guess she's entitled), but one way for this grumpy gal to cope with stress is to read, and read A-LOT. Faith Hunter's books are great for giving me these little 15 minute...half hour...3 hour (oops!) breaks with reality when I'm stalking along as Beast or squishing my way through a bloodbath. Many authors write simply...characters don't change much...because (IMHO) the author sees a cash cow and is afraid to add a little chocolate to the milk. I get a charge out of J. D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts), and the character of Eve changed quite a bit in the first few books, but now? If I see one more scene on the staircase...one more sleep-deprived pizza...I'll fall asleep myself. Janet Evanovich is funny funny funny and I love Stephanie, Ranger and Joe in their interminable triangle...but if I didn't get a year long rest between her books I would stop reading them. Formulaic anyone?
Are you worried I'm getting off the subject? Mainly Faith's amazing Jane Yellowrock series? Well, so here's why I think Faith Hunter's work is so much better than that of authors who make 10 times as much...
So many other reviewers talk about what was happening in the book..so let me get into why I love Faith Hunter's writing! Ninth in the series and she still surprises me. Still adds brushstrokes of dimension to her best secondary characters and continues to breath new life and complexity into Jane Yellowrock. Jane Yellowrock lives in a damned if you do...damned if you don't world and manages (usually) very well in dancing on the fine wire between choices. You see her pain and self-doubt, but she doesn't (usually) roll in it and for every moment that she's playing the "what if" game, there's another that's either funny, sexy or a thrill ride of suspense.
Add to that the utterly multi-sensory writing style (smells of rotting blood and the spicy miasma that is NOLA, the crack/grind of a vertebrae, the soft dustiness of old velvet...and let's NEVER forget an amazing scene with her "something." LOL Yeah, I will continue to read Faith's books until she stops writing them. So good!
And I can tell there is on the way...which makes me want to jump up and yell YAYAYAYAAYA!!!! 'Cause I know another book is coming...
