by Rob Thurman, Hillary Huber
Trick of the Light takes Rob Thurman's urban fantasy storytelling in a different direction. She is known for her male POV characters, but in this book, the lead is Trixa, a female. While I am a huge fan of Cal and Nik Leandros, it was nice to see a different set of characters, although there is a s...
I am not as happy about this book as I hoped to be. There are so many similarities between this and her other two series (Cal Leandros and The Chimera) that I have to wonder how much is based on real life experiences. All her books involve siblings (in this case foster siblings), one of whom either...
Trick of Light introduces us to Trixa Iktomi, a "bar owner, informant, occasional demon killer, and various other things best not spread around". She's hunting for the demon that killed her little brother. The one thing that can help her is 'the Light of Life' ... "an impenetrable shield that coul...
I listened to this on audio which is why it took awhile to get through. I admit, I loved the narrator's voice. I think she caught the tough chick tone just right. She has one of those voices that in a romance novel would be described as "honey over gravel." She can do rough, tough but also a dar...
Synopsis: Trixa Iktomi, Las Vegas bar owner, information broker and down-to-earth grad of the school of hard knocks, sasses her way into and out of trouble while avenging her brother's death in Thurman's supernatural series launch. Angels and associates of Eden House, an earthly company that employs...
Others have provided synopses, so I won't rehash the story line here. I really liked Rob Thurman's Cal/Niko Leandros series, so I wanted to like this book as well. However, several things just didn't work for me:The book is told in the first person (not necessarily bad), but the narrator, Trixa, is ...
Hmm. What to say?Trixa is a bar owner in Vegas. When first we meet her she's just burned down a nightclub with her two companions, Griffin and Zeke, who she took in years earlier when they were just a couple of starving teens on the street. The arson's okay, though, because the club is owned by a...
If you liked Rob Thurman's other books and don't mind carbon copies of the world and characters, then you'll like this book.Thurman has a good style and good sense of characters; only it doesn't make up for the poor execution of this book. She wrote this like I think on my period; angsty, repetitiv...
I learned that it never pays to underestimate the power of a woman, it might just kill you!This series by Rob Thurman grabbed me and it never let me go and when I find a book to read that does that it stays permanently on my shelves! I am looking forward to the 2nd installment when it comes out beca...
I don't know why but I just couldn't get into this. It's not badly written. I read the first several chapters and just didn't care what happened so I moved on.
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