City of Light: An Outcast Novel
They ended the war.But they started something worse.When the bombs that stopped the species war tore holes in the veil between this world and the next, they allowed entry to the Others—demons, wraiths, and death spirits who turned the shadows into their hunting grounds. Now, a hundred years...
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They ended the war.But they started something worse.When the bombs that stopped the species war tore holes in the veil between this world and the next, they allowed entry to the Others—demons, wraiths, and death spirits who turned the shadows into their hunting grounds. Now, a hundred years later, humans and shifters alike live in artificially lit cities designed to keep t
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780451473509 (0451473507)
ASIN: 451473507
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Arthur creates the exact right blend of PNR, urban fantasy, and sci-fi in this series. I’m a sucker for stories about a world barely clinging to the ruins of its former self. In this case, it’s due to a war that happened over one hundred years ago between shifters and humans that’s left us both at t...
This could have been a wonderful book and the start of a series that I would have followed avidly but the writing degraded my enjoyment too much for me to want to continue. "City Of Light" is an Urban Fantasy / Sci-Fi book that has a lot of strengths. It brings together humans, shifters, aliens, g...
I was searching for a new UF series. One that would make the waits between new Mercy or Kate books bearable. Found this one. And loved it. The heroine is great. She is not a human in the strictest sense, she is an enhanced, bio-engineered being. But she has a soul, a unique voice and a character...
Many, many years ago bombs were dropped on the world to stop the war between the species. The bombs tore holes between the worlds which left openings for demons, wraiths and death spirits to enter. Now a hundred years later the best thing to do is stay out of the shadows and the dark. Unless you wan...
I love this author but struggled a bit with this one. I guess being that it's the first in the series there was a lot of character and world building and I got somewhat lost. This was set post apocalyptic with engineered humans, shifters, vampires and other paranormal folk. It took me a while to con...