Soon Damali finds herself being pulled deeper into the vast and horrifying vampire world. But his unholy intentions have also drawn the focus of other hellish dark forces. Damali soon discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire she has ever met, and this seductive beast is coming for her next. These bodies have been mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before. No neat puncture marks in the neck to show where the life's blood has been sucked from the body.
These killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. Strange attacks have also erupted within the club drug-trafficking network and drawn the attention of the police. But Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires have been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons-predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. 4-city author tour.There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night.Īll Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. The hip-hop turn to the book's prose alleviates the tedium of a stock genre plot, while the well-conceived and intricate rules of Banks's vampire-inhabited world provide endless opportunities for riffs on the meaning of power and sex that will please lovers of similar purplish philosophical musings found in the vampire tales of Anne Rice and Laurell K. Carlos is tempted by the female vampire's offer of joint rule, and Damali must battle to stop an alliance between renegade vampires and demons that promises catastrophe for were-demons, vampires and humans alike. In Brazil, where were-creatures have been terrorizing a portion of the rain forest, Damali and Carlos encounter a female vampire possessed, via were-cat infection and flesh-eating, by the bitter memories of a 500-year-old Neteru who lost her life to raping and pillaging conquistadors. ), Damali Richards, a vampire huntress (or "Neteru"), reconnects with her vampire lover Carlos Rivera, whom she thought was killed in the previous novel but who's now serving a penance for his vampiric misdeeds within a modern-day Knights Templar stronghold. Banks has created a magical, brilliantly imagined world that brings our deepest fears to vivid life, and Damali Richards, the tough, sexy vampire huntress, is a heroine for the ages.
In Banks's third overheated hip-hop vampire thriller (after Minion 'Minion is the thrilling debut of what promises to be an exciting, groundbreaking series.
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