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review 2013-04-08 23:45
The Scent of Shadows (Sign of the Zodiac, Book 1)
The Scent of Shadows - Vicki Pettersson Joanna was raped as a teenager and now finds strength in hunting down other attackers and enacting some retribution on them. She finds herself caught up in a world of demons, shadows and light. She has to survive the first few days before she can become fully involved. Her sister gets pulled into the plot and things get more and more complicated.It's not a bad read but not exceptional. There are some interesting twists and further books may improve things.
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review 2013-02-25 00:00
The Scent of Shadows - Vicki Pettersson Interesting storyline, though there were somethings that made you go WTF? I really like the main character. I've already bought the entire series as ebooks when they were on sale. I'll try the second one and see how it goes from there.
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review 2012-10-15 00:00
The Scent of Shadows (Sign of the Zodiac, Book 1)
The Scent of Shadows - Vicki Pettersson I wanted to like it but I just found the main character too mean to be able to enjoy at all.
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review 2011-07-07 00:00
The Neon Graveyard - Vicki Pettersson *Rating* 4.0*Genre* Science Fiction**Review**The Neon Graveyard, by Vicki Pettersson, is the final book in the Sign of the Zodiac series. If you haven’t read any of the books in this series before this, or haven’t stayed with it during the rather mundane books like City of Souls, then you won’t understand anything that is happening in this one. The story picks up with Joanna Archer, the series protagonist and storyteller, still banished from her troop called the Light after she lost her powers, and her immortality. She has found shelter among a group of individuals called the Gray on the outside of Las Vegas where none of the other troops can reach her. They are all rogue members of either the Light or the Shadows who have come to Las Vegas from other places like NYC and Arizona. Carlos, the default leader of the Gray, has offered to help Joanna in her mission to retrieve Hunter from Midheaven and is also very protective of Joanna knowing that she is carrying an unborn child in her womb. This is rather like a comic book mixed with some Greek mythology where you have the good guys called the light, and the evil villains called the Shadows. There is even a Comic Book store where so called storytellers write about the events that happen to both camps. They each have different powers that are linked to the Western Zodiac signs. There are twelve active members at one time in each troop. Right now, the Light is missing members with Joanna’s banishment and Hunter’s disappearance to Midheaven and Warren's pure stubborness and refusal to allow discussion. Obviously with the last book of any series, the writers’ goal is to wrap up the unanswered questions and storylines that have been building up since the beginning. Will Joanna actually save Hunter or will Solange win in the end? Will Joanna ever get her powers back that she gambled away in Midheaven as well as two-thirds of her soul? Is Joanna really the fabled Kairos that is said to be so power that whichever side has her, the power shifts in that direction? Will Joanna and Warren finally come to blows after the way he has turned her out? Lastly, what can be done to kill the Tulpa once and for-all before he finds a way into Midheaven and kills all the Light forces and those living in Las Vegas?Joanna finds that she has some hard choices to make both for her own survival, and that of Hunters. She absolutely refuses to allow Solange to keep Hunter and gather more and more rogues in her clutch which in turns gives her more power. She learns more about yet another prophecy called the Sixth Sign of the Zodiac. She realizes that she is a mix of gray, light and shadow, and that’s not really a bad thing in her estimation. She knows that a final confrontation is looming with the Tulpa, who has basically taken away his troops weapons so that she can’t gain her powers back, and Warren, who kicked her out after lying to her and using her and altering her appearance to make her look like her deceased sister Olivia.Questions will definitely be answered. Are they sufficient to make even the true believer of this series happy? I believe the answer is yes. There are several emotional parts as well as not everyone survives this installment. This story is dark at times, but the story telling is first rate. Pettersson doesn’t waste time with fru fru story lines and isn’t afraid of killing off a character or two in order to get to the final cut as well as the final showdown between Joanna, Solange, Warren and Tulpa. The story of Midheaven could in itself, could be separated into a separate story by the author that might actually do well. The darkness and the desperation of the men who end up there and end up staying for the rest of their lives is definitely worth reading about. There is even a twist when it comes to the other three women who Midheaven was made for as well as the fate of Solange and Hunters so called child.The final hard fought battle between Joanna and the Tulpa was definitely worth the wait, but Warren’s battle with Joanna kind of disappointed me as well as fizzled. I was hoping for more of a hard fought battle that what we got.--------------------------------**Spoilers if you really want to know**----------------------- Yes, Joanna ends up getting her powers back thanks to Hunter retrieving her lost poker chips. Yes, Joanna defeats Solange thanks to the fact that she gave Joanna one of her chips back that captures her ether as well as allowing Joanna the power to create worlds, and shields. Yes, Joanna is really truly and unremarkable the Kairos but refuses to be the leader of any troop. She and Hunter decide to leave Las Vegas after the final battle between the Tulpa and Hunter learning that he is going to be a father. No, Joanna does not kill Warren, and his ousting as leader of the Light was pretty much a wet blanket thrown on the story to end a storyline.
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review SPOILER ALERT! 2011-06-25 00:00
The Neon Graveyard - Vicki Pettersson

It's possible I just don't remember Cheat the Grave very well but I feel like we skipped some important steps between book 5 and 6 so I felt like I was playing catch up for the first few chapters.

It was an anti-climactic end to the series.

I was surprised that the 13th sign of the zodiac figured so prominently since the news stories about it only appeared at the beginning of 2011, as far as I know. So it couldn't have been part of the original plan.

I'd say the majority of the book was spent on freeing Hunter. I know it was important and I definitely wanted to see more of Hunter but it further diminished the Tupla's role. The other problem is that the vastly changed Midheaven was much less interesting than the old saloon. I really would have liked to visit the old version of Midheaven because I do think it was a vivid and interesting setting.

Dealing with the troops and the Tupla felt perfunctory. The final battle was very anticlimactic. It almost feels like Pettersson lost interest in the Tulpa, which is unfortunate since he was supposed to be the big bad.

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