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"Snappy writing, a page-turning story and fresh world-building make Dying Bites a satisfying meal of a book."--Kelley Armstrong, "New York"" Times "bestseller of "Living with the Dead""Dying Bites is wacky, unpredictable, fresh and amazing. I would kill to write as well as DD Barant. Seriously." --Nancy Holder, author of "Pretty Little Devils" """ "
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Jace has been ripped from her reality by David Cassius, the vampire head of the NSA. He knows that she's the best there in the business, and David needs her help in solving a series of gruesome murders of vampires and werewolves. David's world - one that also includes lycanthropes and golems - is one with little knowledge of mental illness. An insane serial killer is a threat the NSA has no experience with. But Jace does. Stranded in a reality where Bela Lugosi is a bigger box office draw than Bruce Willis and every full moon is Mardi Gras, Jace must now hunt down a fellow human before he brings the entire planet to the brink of madness. Or she may never see her own world again.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A curious novel, I can't remember the last time I read a book where the character started off as an FBI Agent in "this" world and ended up working in a Alternate Reality where Bela Lugosi is a bigger draw then Brad Pitt because almost the entire planets population is made up of Supernatural Creatures, including Vampires, Werewolves, Golems, Selkie... Particulary entertaining is Charlie, who is the Heroine's Bodguyard and a Golem himself. He has a line in dry one liners which, on occassion, had me laughing aloud:
Heroine-"How do you swim?"
Charlie-"Like an Anvil".
The world is odd for more than one reason, though. No firearms have ever existed on this world, nor were they ever even imagined apparently. "Why" and "How" are answers to read the book for, but the Heroine doesn't have to worry since, being from another world, she can and does bring her service weapon and use it on occassion. Not that regular bullets do much to Vampires or Werewolves, but still. WMD's do exist, but appear to be tied into the Mythos of H.P.Lovecraft. Vampires on this world can even have children together, apparently, magic is very real...
It's a good start with an interesting concept, but so far the Heroine seems to be the Magic Bullet for too many problems. She's a 100% human FBI Profiler who deals with the nutters nutters, those who are supposedly so insane that they have no pattern and kill randomly, or worse. Yet the Anti-Hero of the book isn't crazy, it seems, just damaged-so why did they need her so badly as to pull her across Realities? How could she have even possibly have stopped magic-wielding enemies who could teleport her into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean if she annoyed them, for example?
The story is interesting and quite well-written, the concept unusual-and I hope that it continues, since this world could do with more development-but so far I'm left with a few too many questions. On the other hand, isn't that the point of the first book? I'll try the second before making my mind up.
Heroine-"How do you swim?"
Charlie-"Like an Anvil".
The world is odd for more than one reason, though. No firearms have ever existed on this world, nor were they ever even imagined apparently. "Why" and "How" are answers to read the book for, but the Heroine doesn't have to worry since, being from another world, she can and does bring her service weapon and use it on occassion. Not that regular bullets do much to Vampires or Werewolves, but still. WMD's do exist, but appear to be tied into the Mythos of H.P.Lovecraft. Vampires on this world can even have children together, apparently, magic is very real...
It's a good start with an interesting concept, but so far the Heroine seems to be the Magic Bullet for too many problems. She's a 100% human FBI Profiler who deals with the nutters nutters, those who are supposedly so insane that they have no pattern and kill randomly, or worse. Yet the Anti-Hero of the book isn't crazy, it seems, just damaged-so why did they need her so badly as to pull her across Realities? How could she have even possibly have stopped magic-wielding enemies who could teleport her into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean if she annoyed them, for example?
The story is interesting and quite well-written, the concept unusual-and I hope that it continues, since this world could do with more development-but so far I'm left with a few too many questions. On the other hand, isn't that the point of the first book? I'll try the second before making my mind up.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
'Dying Bites' is a fantastic, urban fantasy/crime novel that grips you from the first page. I was underestimating the quality of the novel, I must admit, when I first read the synopsis. It just looked to me like another attempt to re-invent a way to present vampires and were-wolves, in the aftermath of the Twilight phenomenom. Wrong. It was quirky, laugh-out-loud funny at times and the female protagonist, Jace Valchek, I found I could really identify with.
The basic storyline revolves around Jace Valchek, loner-ish Criminal Psychologist for the FBI, who is transported from her (our current) world into a world where vampires, lycanthropes and Golems make up most of the population and humans are a dying breed. Why is she sent there? Because they (the NSA) and the big boss David Cassius, need her to find a vampire & lycanthrope serial killer that is terrorising their world.
Although the idea of vampires and lycanthrope seems overplayed in our current culture in literature, you'd be surprised at how refreshing Barrant portrays them.
"Oh, this just keeps getting better and better," I mutter. "What next? Are you going to tell me the suspect is short, dresses all in green and speaks with an Irish brogue? Were there traces of shamrocks and breakfast cereal left at the crime scene?" [Page 42]
Any fans of Rachel Vincent, Ilona Andrews, Karen Chance, Devon Monk, Patricia Briggs and Kelley Armstrong would enjoy this hilarious and exciting read. The only problem is the wait for the sequel...
The basic storyline revolves around Jace Valchek, loner-ish Criminal Psychologist for the FBI, who is transported from her (our current) world into a world where vampires, lycanthropes and Golems make up most of the population and humans are a dying breed. Why is she sent there? Because they (the NSA) and the big boss David Cassius, need her to find a vampire & lycanthrope serial killer that is terrorising their world.
Although the idea of vampires and lycanthrope seems overplayed in our current culture in literature, you'd be surprised at how refreshing Barrant portrays them.
"Oh, this just keeps getting better and better," I mutter. "What next? Are you going to tell me the suspect is short, dresses all in green and speaks with an Irish brogue? Were there traces of shamrocks and breakfast cereal left at the crime scene?" [Page 42]
Any fans of Rachel Vincent, Ilona Andrews, Karen Chance, Devon Monk, Patricia Briggs and Kelley Armstrong would enjoy this hilarious and exciting read. The only problem is the wait for the sequel...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The basic idea of the story is fairly different from the usual crop of 'others' more or less hidden in our society and that allows the author to develop some nice little otherworldly touches. The story is well paced. The list of characters is sufficiently wide and varied to allow for progression and development. I liked it sufficiently to pre-order the next installment and yes, I have added the author to my list of those I look out for. Worth a read.
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