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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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ISBN number: 0809572036
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Page Count: 394
Printing Date: October 24, 2007
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It was the revelation of the millennium: witches, werewolves, vampires and other supernaturals are real. Fast-forward 13 years: TV reporter Delilah Street used to cover the small-town bogeyman beat back in Kansas, but now, in high-octane Las Vegas - which is run by a werewolf mob - she finds herself holding back the gates of Hell itself. But at least she has a hot new guy and one big bad wolfhound to help her out...
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Having been a long-time fan of Ms. Douglas' Midnight Louie series, I decided to try a new genre--fantasy.
This was a truly absorbing read with interesting characters, an exciting plot and a delightful (and somewhat sexy) romance. I also enjoyed Delilah's silver familiar.
I look forward to the further adventures of Ms. Street, Ric, Quicksilver and, of course, the Las Vegas ambiance which Ms. Douglas creates so well.
Jessie
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I love books about alternate realities, supernatural characters, and strong women. This book appeared to have all that covered. Ultimately, though, it was a disappointment.
Delilah Street is an orphan, a foundling who grew up in an orphanage in Wichita, Kansas. She knows she was named for the place where she was found...but there is no Delilah Street in Wichita. Hmm. In her universe, the Millenium brought out all of the unhumans - werewolves, zombies, vampires, and who knows what else. Delilah isn't even sure what she is herself.
Through a contrived series of events, Delilah finds herself homeless and jobless and headed for Las Vegas in search of her own double, whom she saw playing (or was she?) a corpse on CSI. Of course, once she gets to Vegas, things just fall into her lap. She ends up moving into an enchanted cottage (if you're into creepy surveillance by your landlord) and meeting a series of attractive men - or whatever they turn out to be.
The best alternate universes seem completely real; their peculiar magic and laws work, and I find myself falling right into them. Not Delilah's world. It was too confusing.
The author created too many mysteries and solved virtually none of them. It's all right to look ahead to the sequel(s), but couldn't she have at least let us off the hook about a few of the dangling plots? I don't mind if we still don't know exactly what Delilah is. That sort of self-discovery is what sequels are made of. But what about her duplicate? Can't we even visit the street she was named for? I fully expected both of those situations to be solved by the end of the book, and they weren't.
And the writing style was too cutesy for me. Delilah is constantly throwing in wisecracks, which just make for disjointed reading. This forced wittiness felt choppy and distracting.
I'm familiar with the author's Midnight Louie series. Her main female character in that series, Temple Barr, irritates me, too, so I suppose I should have been prepared for Delilah. I shouldn't have wasted my time on this book. I doubt I'll read the sequel.
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Delilah Street is a paranormal investigative reporter who relocates to Las Vegas from Kansas allegedly to find out about a woman who is her exact double when she sees the woman on a popular TV show. Once there she runs into several other mysteries that are supposed to connect to her search for her body double that she just has to try and solve.
First let me say that the very first 50 pages of backstory of this book were pointless and could have been summed up in about 5 pages. Ok, my annoyances with this books are as follows in no particular order: Delilah's phobias, Dehilah's car, Delilah's pets, Delilah's childhood. All of these things get way too much air time during the whole book.
This story is supposed to take place in the future (post 21st century Millenium), but wait, we don't don't how far into the future so the reader has to guess what freaking year it's supposed to be.
Way too much time is spent describing Deliah's obsession with all things vintage-- clothes, movie characters, movies. In fact too much time is spent describing everything and not telling an actual story. The story, such as it is, is disjointed, and confusing. Attempts to connect secondary characters to the the main plot fall flat and leaves the reader with more questions never to be answered because the book has no definite ending to any of the so called mysteries she is supposed to be solving.
This book waste of money and time.
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Carole Nelson Douglas is a great writer, but I think that she needs a new editor. The last few novels have had some serious logic holes. I end up looking back to see if I missed a page. For example, at the beginning of this novel, why would Sheena the weather witch send a tornado to blow away Delilah's house? Delilah hadn't done anything to her. In fact, Sheena had ended up with her reporting job and rejected "boyfriend". There was no logical reason why she should be getting revenge on Delilah unless perhaps the rejected guy had asked her to, but it was never explained. It was a convenient plot device, but I couldn't see the logic behind it.
There are also an overwhelming number of mixed metaphors in this novel. I realize this has become part of her writing style, and I like a few here and there for flavor, but after a while I wanted to say "Enough already, let's get moving with the story!" It started to feel as though Yogi Berra had written it.
I also found this book to be too similar to Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. They both have a strong female lead with some sort of evolving superpower fighting vampires, werewolves and various other creatures that are now out in public instead of skulking in shadows. It was disappointing to read a copy of someone else's imaginary world instead of something uniquely hers.
I have been a fan of Carole Nelson Douglas ever since 1992 when I bought my very first copy of Good Night Mr. Holmes (which fell apart and had to be re-glued so many times that I ended up buying the series in hardcover because I reread it so often). She is one of my two favorite authors. Unfortunately, the last few novels have been harder to enjoy. I will continue to read them, but wish that she could go back to the better written (and edited!) stories such as the early Irene Adler (or even early Midnight Louie) novels.
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THERE MAY BE SOME SPOILERS BELOW (but nothing major, I believe)
I probably shouldn't read the Amazon reviews for a book before writing my own, but in this case I did, and there's a lot I agree with in the negative ones. The opening is just bizarre: I don't beleive for a minute that the Vampire anchorman would do what he did, and the cow mutilations are just a complete non-sequiter to the rest of the book. That said, let me add some complaints I haven't seen in the other reviews:
1) I don't like the "I'm just a hick from Kansas, so what do I know?" stuff. I've been to Kansas, and all over the rest of the country. Maybe it was once a backwater, but I certainly didn't notice it when I was there.
2) I don't like Ric. The author invokes Nick & Nora Charles several times, but if she is planning some kind of "Thin Man", "couple solves crimes" angle, it didn't work. They *plan* to work together, but in the event, Ric is absent most of the time. Why bother to have Delilah fall for the very first nice guy she meets if you plan to have her work alone? For that matter, the other men she ends up interacting with are much more interesting anyway. Why have her tied down already when she flirts so well with Snow?
3) Give us *some* idea of what's possible and what's imnpossible. I thought I understood most of the underpinnings, then new creatures kept being pulled from behind the authors back. First we had vampires, and that was OK, then she introduced weather witches (for very little reason) and then werewolves. I thought I understood what kind of book it was then, but she followed that with CineSims, whatever Nightwine is, fae, and finally zombies. (And Delilah seems to be 'none of the above'..)
4) OK, maybe in the future, US TV will show nude corpses. Why not? HBO probably does it now. But somehow I don't think a nude corpse will become an overnight sensation with groupies and a major Vegas Floorshow devoted to it. And for that matter, why does Delilah run into crazed 'Maggie' groupies when it suits the plot but is able to walk around unmolested (except by her various enemies) at all other times?
5) I didn't believe in Haskell at all. Sure, the LV police dept is probably in the pocket of the werewolves, but there's no evidence that the country as a whole is corrupt. If he wanted to break in and kill Delilah for personal reasons, that's one thing, but to break in and *arrest* her? That puts all of his procedural errors straight into the system.
Anyway, enough of that. Why did I give the book 3 stars instead of 1 or 2? Because even when the plot makes no sense, Delilah has a nice sense of 'self', and her humorous observations on her various predicaments are amusing and endearing. I basically *like* Delilah and would like to see her in a *good* book.
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