Give Me Ladies With Blood On Their Hands

[redbrunja]

Does anyone have recommendations for books about bad girls? Girls who are not nice? Who prioritize their survival over other people?

Because I was reading the opening of Keturah and Lord Death and when I got to the part (about four pages in, so not a spoiler) where Death tells the heroine that he’ll spare her if she names someone she’s prefer to die in her place and she’s like, ‘oh, no, I couldn’t possibly!’ and I’m like, ‘BOOM, DONE WITH YOU, POLLYANNA.’ It could have been anyone! It could have been someone she hated! Someone she barely new! Sweet jesus, I can think of five people who I’d be willing to trade for my life WITHIN THIRTY SECONDS.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/the-summoning/

I listened to these three books and while they're not perfect I enjoyed them far more than the 2 Otherworld books I read by the same author.

These had the creepiest and most vivid portrayal of a necromancer that I've seen yet in urban fantasy, especially by book 3. I'm sure there are scarier books out there, but these.worked for me because thwy really showed how crappy it would be to talk to ghosts and how traumatic it would be to have to animate the corpse of someone you know just MINUTES after they died because, well, life got dark.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oooh, The Summoning is actually available at the library five minutes away. I think I'll snag that later this evening.

because thwy really showed how crappy it would be to talk to ghosts and how traumatic it would be to have to animate the corpse of someone you know just MINUTES after they died because, well, life got dark.

I am intrigued!