Wednesday 10 February 2010

URBAN FANTASY REVIEW: In Golden Blood - Stephen Woodworth

BOOK BLURB:

Natalie Lindstrom has a gift: the power to speak to the dead, to solve crimes by interviewing murder victims. But now Natalie wants to escape, from the voices that fill her head, and from the organisation that has used her as a crime-solving tool - and who now wants to recruit her daughter. So Natalie takes a job as far from crime and punishment as she can get: with an archaeologist in the mountains of Peru. Her job: to find a trove of priceless artifacts - by channelling those who lived and died at an ancient Incan site. But in the towering Andes, Natalie enters a 500-year-old storm of betrayal, murder, greed, and rage - and she cannot silence the voices of the dead. The slaughtered reach out to her. The slaughterers boast of their crimes. Alone, cut off from her family, Natalie faces a chilling realisation: every truth she uncovers is leading her one step closer to a terror beyond imagining.


REVIEW:

I absolutely loved the first book in this series that I read so when I unfortunately missed the second, I was a tad worried that the third would lose me and ruin what was a great memory. Luckily for me, it didn’t with the return of vulnerable powerful seers who not only endear themselves through their vulnerability but also with their courage. It’s an absolute corker of a read with great pace, lulls as well as high action points and perhaps best of all allows the heroine to grow. Add to the mix beautifully utilised info dumps that don’t over burden the reader but enhance the overall arc and you’ve got a story that will definitely keep those pages turning long into the night.

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