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Dark Currents: Agent of Hel - Jacqueline Carey
Dark Currents: Agent of Hel
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Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Kushiel’s Legacy novels, presents an all-new world featuring a woman caught between the normal and paranormal worlds, while enforcing order in both. Introducing Daisy Johanssen, reluctant hell-spawn… The Midwestern resort town... show more
Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Kushiel’s Legacy novels, presents an all-new world featuring a woman caught between the normal and paranormal worlds, while enforcing order in both. Introducing Daisy Johanssen, reluctant hell-spawn… The Midwestern resort town of Pemkowet boasts a diverse population: eccentric locals, wealthy summer people, and tourists by the busload; not to mention fairies, sprites, vampires, naiads, ogres and a whole host of eldritch folk, presided over by Hel, a reclusive Norse goddess. To Daisy Johanssen, fathered by an incubus and raised by a single mother, it’s home. And as Hel’s enforcer and the designated liaison to the Pemkowet Police Department, it’s up to her to ensure relations between the mundane and eldritch communities run smoothly. But when a young man from a nearby college drowns—and signs point to eldritch involvement—the town’s booming paranormal tourism trade is at stake. Teamed up with her childhood crush, Officer Cody Fairfax, a sexy werewolf on the down-low, Daisy must solve the crime—and keep a tight rein on the darker side of her nature. For if she’s ever tempted to invoke her demonic birthright, it could accidentally unleash nothing less than Armageddon.  
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780451464781 (0451464788)
ASIN: 0451464788
Publisher: Roc Hardcover
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
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Lyndi
Lyndi rated it
4.0 Dark Currents: Agent of Hel
"lugubrious", "pulchritudinous"... On the same page. Like a paragraph apart. This author is pissing me off. PUT DOWN THE THESAURUS AND STEP AWAY FROM THE OBSOLETE WORDS."eschatological", "antimacassars", "saturnine", "loquacious", "eponymous", "onotological"... OMG JUST STOP.There are a few moments ...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it
4.0 A cut above
While this does make use of some of the same tropes and motifs found in too much Urban Fantasy today, it is a cut above. If you are thinking it will be like Carey's Kushiel books, think again. There is a hint at a romantic many sided figure, but just a hint, the main focus is a mystery. So while ...
Inkspot Fancy
Inkspot Fancy rated it
4.0 Paranormal romp
Like a lot of people, I got my introduction to Jacqueline Carey through the Kushiel books, so when I grabbed this one - an urban fantasy detective-style story - I wasn't quite sure what to expect. Lots of sex and gore? Complicated political setups? Doomed romance? Well, no, no and maybe, in that o...
Merry Meerkat Marginalia
Merry Meerkat Marginalia rated it
3.5 Dark Currents
Star Rating: 3.5 Stars, Borrow it Self Purchase, Kindle Edition First Impression: I love how Daisy has a tail she has to keep under control. I like how she has a lesser demon for a father. It’s fun and entertaining however, there is nothing new or special about this one. Yes it has a mermaid whi...
Fangs for the Fantasy
Fangs for the Fantasy rated it
2.5 Dark Currents (Agent of Hel #1) by Jacqueline Carey
Daisy is the child of a demon, which means she has a constant temptation to embrace her vast potential power – and possibly end the world. This would be a bad thing Unfortunately her job as Hel’s (that would be the Norse goddess Hel, not Hell) liaison to the Midwestern Eldritch resort town of Pemkow...
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