Blood Kin

May 15, 2012
Scott continues the Half-Light City series (Shadow Kin, 2011) with a tale about half-fae spy-for-hire Holly Evendale. Holly first encounters Templar knight Guy DuCaine when she falls off a roof and into his chain-mail-clad arms. They meet again when Holly's fae-lord fatherwho abandoned her and her human mother, forcing them to live in a brothelinvokes a geas on her to spy on Guy's brother, healer Simon DuCaine. Her father ensures her entry into the hospital by having her savagely beaten. The Templars have been experiencing an increase in deaths, and Guy will do anything to save his brotherhood, even to the extent of teaming up with Holly and being expelled from his order. In peril is a treaty that divides the city between magic-wielding humans and fae on one side and vampire Blood Lords and shape-shifting beast-kind on the other. Scott has built a fascinating world, best understood if readers begin with the first book and the story of Simon and the wraith assassin, Lily, and then continue with Holly and Guy.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)