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Loading... Broken Soulsby Stephen Blackmoore
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  carol. | Nov 25, 2024 |    ) yarmando | Apr 21, 2024 |  ) cwebb | Sep 4, 2023 |  ) Glennis.LeBlanc | Jan 4, 2023 | (Eric Carter #2) by Stephen Blackmoore After book one, I didn't think it could get better but I was wrong! Oh my! What a wild ride! Best friend dead and avatar for a god? Check! Married to a death god? Check! How to deal with the death god's husband god? Ummmm... Lots of fun!!! (  ) MontzaleeW | Sep 5, 2022 | no reviews | add a review
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Sister murdered, best friend dead, married to the patron saint of death, Santa Muerte. Necromancer Eric Carter's return to Los Angeles hasn't gone well, and it's about to get even worse. His link to the Aztec death goddess is changing his powers, changing him, and he's not sure how far it will go. He's starting to question his own sanity, wonder if he's losing his mind. No mean feat for a guy who talks to the dead on a regular basis. While searching for a way to break Santa Muerte's hold over him, Carter finds himself the _target of a psychopath who can steal anyone's form, powers, and memories. Identity theft is one thing, but this guy does it by killing his victims and wearing their skins like a suit. He can be anyone. He can be anywhere. Now Carter has to change the game-go from hunted to hunter. All he has for help is a Skid Row bruja and a ghost who's either his dead friend Alex or the manifestation of Carter's own guilt-fueled psychotic break. Everything is trying to kill him. Nothing is as it seems. If all his plans go perfectly, he might survive the week. He's hoping that's a good thing. No library descriptions found. |
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Sure, our necromantic lead, Eric Carter, has similarities to Dresden. However, Blackmoore pares down the protective instinct justifications to a few sentences scattered here and there. Carter's upbringing is shockingly normal, if somewhat magical. And while Carter has a problematic relationship with an enormously powerful female deity, Santa Muerte, he's only mildly attracted to her, unlike Dresden and the White Queen. More importantly, Blackmoore does not sexualize every woman in the story, so he's already 80% more tolerable than Butcher.
This story involves a Bruja who is known for running a vampire halfway house on skid row, and multiple attempts on Carter's life. It has fast paced action and a twisty plot, although I did see one of the twists coming back in book one (yay, me!). Blackmoore brings in Mayan and Mexican cultural influences which spices up an often homogenous mythological field. There's a little side piece with summoning the Santa Ana winds that I particularly enjoyed, as many who have been to Los Angeles will.
I finished in one day. On to the next! (