All Your Wishes

August 29, 2016
In the satisfying seventh installment of the Blood Singer urban fantasy series (following 2014’s To Dance with the Devil), series star Celia Graves, a part-vampire, part-Siren professional bodyguard, is hired to protect a man who’s been charged with capturing a malevolent ifrit. Celia doesn’t want the case—the client is secretive and untrustworthy—but multiple precognitives claim that the fate of humankind is at stake and her participation is essential. Things go wrong at every turn, including assassination attempts and the ifrit taking control of her body and threatening to kill everyone she loves. It’ll take a heroic sacrifice to save the day. A nonstop, action-packed story involving a global threat raises the stakes to high levels, keeping the reader on edge, but in many ways this episode feels like a stage-clearing reset of the status quo. Several extant plot lines and multiple supporting characters are wrapped up or removed in perfunctory fashion, and Celia herself seems poised for the next step in her career. Though not seamless, the book is a solid continuation of the series. Agent: Lucienne Diver, Knight Agency.

September 15, 2016

Celia Graves is a paranormal trifecta--part human, part vampire, part Siren--and her agency, Graves Personal Protection, is finally moving into a new home. When a client asks for Celia's help getting a genie back in its bottle, the ifrit makes a demand: let him have Celia's body or he will kill everyone she loves. Of course, if this creature takes control he will free numerous evil djinn, which would not be good for business either. Celia knows she isn't going to become a homeless spirit, but her client has other ideas, attempting to maneuver her into accepting the ifrit so he can kill it while it is trapped in her body. These options don't work for Celia, so she rebottles the genie for good. VERDICT This latest series installment (after To Dance with the Devil) is penned solely by C.T. Adams under the Cat Adams moniker (the pen name of Adams and Cathy Clamp). The focused Celia makes for a standout protagonist in a dramatic and action-driven urban fantasy.--KC

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