by Alaya Dawn Johnson
I picked up this book ages ago on a blog's recommendation and only just got to reading it. I enjoy urban fantasy these days, but sometimes it all starts to run together. This book had some unusual elements for the genre that I found intriguing: the setting in the Prohibition era isn't one that's muc...
Great!
I was just not invested in any character except Amir. I really wanted to know what his deal was so I kept reading for that information only. I couldn't stand do-gooder Zephyr. This book takes place in the 1920s during prohibition and mobsters (in this case vampire mobsters) rule the streets of New...
4.5/5This was such a delightful mess of a book with everything through in for a good measure - gangsters, vampires, social activists, demon hunters, jazz and The Prohibition, of course. Can't have roaring 20s without it!Oh, I forgot djinn! The mysterious stranger with a dark sex appeal, the client w...
Also appears on The Screaming Nitpicker. In 1920s New York, vampires and other such Others are minorities with few to no rights and Zephyr Hollis is the singing vampire suffragette, famous for how much she gives and her never-ending crusade for Other rights. She teaches classes for Others and immig...
YA paranormal with romantic elements. It's the 1920s in New York, and Zephyr, "the singing vampire suffragette" is spending every waking minute trying to atone for the sins of her family (her dad is a famed demon hunter and she learned to hunt "Others" before she could walk) by trying to save, educa...
Moonshine is quite different from the usual urban fantasy sprinkling the shelves. First of all, Zephyr does not put on leather pants to go hunting (though her name would suit her wicked well in one, eh?), she barely has clothes (clean ones at least) to put on for normal stuff. Actually, Zephyr is no...
I couldn't decide quite how to rate this one. Although I ended up enjoying it, I was able to walk away from it initially and wasn't drawn back to it. If it hadn't been a challenge read, I might have left it a while longer. So ... 3.5★ even though I'd read #2, if it's to be a series.Moonshine tell...
This book is set in the 20s. Not exactly the roaring 20s we usually are privileged to have in our movies, but more like the social problems of the 20s we rarely see. This book, of course, goes further and has another group of people who suffer the injustices of prejudice. "The Others" are any groups...
Sucked in from the onset, I fell instantly in awe of the singing vampire suffragette, Zephyr Hollis and her world of out of the coffin, vamps that have inalienable rights just like any other person. I find my fascination didn't end with the character of Ms. Hollis though, it also extended to her da...
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