by Mercedes Lackey
Before Buffy or Hamilton's Anita Blake or Harris' Sookie Stackhouse, Lackey was writing Urban Fantasy with a strong heroine, Diana Tregarde, starting with Burning Water and also including, besides this one, Jinx High. Diana is a practicing witch and a "Guardian" sworn to protect innocents who get ca...
This book is filled with magic and Guardians and psychic vampires and yet it has a real feel to it. Di the heroine has a job, bills, friends and a broken heart. She has panic attacks that can impede her in her job. She has unruly hair and does not dress to impress. People are ending up dead, their s...
I like the Diana Tregarde stories. This is really my first taste of Urban fantasy. There were not many writers, especially female ones writing in this genre backll in the 90s. I recommend this book for young adults actually because the material is just right for teens today. Nothing preachy nor ...