Faith Hunter's (Jane Yellowrock # 7) Black Arts

[Eva Millien]

Blurb:

(off Goodreads)

When Evan Trueblood blows into town looking for his wife, Molly, he’s convinced that she came to see her best friend, Jane. But it seems like the witch made it to New Orleans and then disappeared without a trace.

Jane is ready to do whatever it takes to find her friend. Her desperate search leads her deep into a web of black magic and betrayal and into the dark history between vampires and witches. But the closer she draws to Molly, the closer she draws to a new enemy—one who is stranger and more powerful than any she has ever faced.

My Review:

The seventh book in the Jane Yellowrock series keeps the reader on the edge of their seats.

Coming into New Orleans convinced that his wife, Molly, had come to see Jane, Evan Trueblood discovers that the witch made it to the city and then disappeared. Jane’s desperate search for her best friend leads her deep in a web of black magic and betrayal and closer to a new enemy, one who is more powerful than any she has ever faced.

This steady to fast paced plot keeps the reader on their toes with lots of suspense and action.  The author brings it to life with vivid imagery, intense details and strong bewitching characters that capture the imagination and doesn’t let go. The well written scenes are appropriately timed and believable making it easy for the reader to get totally caught up in the story.

The characters in the Jane Yellowrock series are compelling with intriguing lives that the author incorporates with ease into Jane’s adventures which add lots of depth to the story.  Jane is a kick ass ruthless heroine that always comes out on top, but goes through hell to do so.  Watching  Jane’s personal growth and accepting herself as she is adds additional spice to the story, really making the character come alive. All the characters work great together and blend well with the plots of each and every story.

The author keeps reader’s guessing with new enemies, intriguing problems and lots of action and suspense. This book is no exception she grabs the reader’s attention from the very beginning and keeps it to the very end.  Faith Hunter is a wonderful storyteller that knows her characters well and makes it easy for all her reader’s to get to know them too.

I have followed Jane Yellowrock’s story from the beginning and I find her to be one my favorite urban fantasy heroines and highly entertaining. I really have fell in love with all the amazing characters and the mesmerizing series keeps getting more and more interesting with additional elements that I can’t wait to see unfold and I wait (very impatiently) for the next book with anticipation.

5 STARS

Purchase Links:

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Arts-Yellowrock-Faith-Hunter/dp/0451465...

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-arts-faith-hunter/1116534552?...

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/black-arts-1

http://www.bookdepository.com/Black-Arts-Faith-Hunter/9780451465245

Jane Yellowrock:

Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker who always takes care of her own—no matter the cost...

1. Skinwalker

2. Blood Cross

3. Mercy Blade

4. Raven Cursed

5. Death’s Rival

6. Blood Trade

7. Black Arts

For a complete list of novels and short stories:

http://www.faithhunter.net/wp/books/jane-yellowrock-series/

About Faith Hunter

(off Goodreads)

Faith Hunter's Skinwalker series is dark urban fantasy, featuring Jane Yellowrock, a full blooded Cherokee and hunter of rogue-vampires. Skinwalker, Blood Cross, Mercy Blade, Raven Cursed, Death's Rival, Blood Trade, & Black Arts. Jane Yellowrock is a shape changer (shapeshifter) in a world of weres, witches, vampires, and other supernats.

Her Rogue Mage novels—Bloodring, Seraphs, Host, and the RPG Rogue Mage—feature Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic alternate reality.

Faith writes full-time, tries to keep house, and is a workaholic. She gave up cooking for lent one year and the oven hasn’t been turned on since. Okay – that’s a joke. She does still make cold cereal and sandwiches. Occasionally, she remembers to sleep or use the vacuum cleaner.

Faith researches in great detail, and tries everything her characters do. Research led to her life’s passions – jewelry making, orchids, bones, travel, white-water kayaking, and writing.

Jewelry-making was the occupation of two of her characters: Thorn St. Croix, the Rogue Mage, and the main character of BloodStone, written by her pen name, Gwen Hunter. She fell in love with it. Faith makes, wears, and gives away her jewelry as promo items to fans who come to signings, as prizes in contests. See her FaceBook Fan Page at http://www.facebook.com/official.fait... for pics. She works with stones, pearls, crystal, and glass, wire wrapping her larger, undrilled, focal stones. Labradorite, Amazonite, apatite, aquamarine, and prehnite are her favorite stones. She spends too much money on supplies and needs larger storage for stones, beads, and gems. 

Faith owns upwards of 20 orchids. Her favorite time of year is when several are blooming. Pictures can be seen at her FaceBook page. And yes, she collects bones and skulls. Many of her orchid pics are juxtaposed with bones and skulls —a fox, cat, dog, cow skull, goat skull, (that is, unfortunately, falling apart) and the jawbone of an ass. She just received a boar skull, and would love to have skull of a lion (that died of old age in the savannahs of Africa!)

She and her husband RV, traveling with their rescued Pomeranians, Tommy and Tuffy, to whitewater rivers all over the Southeast. (The poms don’t whitewater. The pampered dogs stay in the RV in air-conditioned comfort!) Tommy and Tuffy love to travel, take long walks, and get groomed. Seriously. They love their groomer!

And that leads Faith to kayaking – her very favorite sport. Faith discovered whitewater paddling when she was researching her (Gwen Hunter) mystery book, Rapid Descent. She took a lesson and—after a bout of panic attacks from fear of drowning—discovered she loved the sport.

Faith is a weekly participant at MagicalWords.net, an online writing forum geared to helping writers. And she is a voracious reader.

Under other pen names, notably, Gwen Hunter, she writes action adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. As Gwen, she is a winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for Fresh Talent in 1995 in the UK, and won a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award in 2008. As Faith, her books have been on the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller lists. Under all her pen names, she has more than 20 books in print in 27 countries. 

Where to find the author:

http://www.faithhunter.net/

http://www.gwenhunter.com/

http://www.magicalwords.net/

http://www.facebook.com/official.faith.hunter

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/234115.Faith_Hunter

https://twitter.com/HunterFaith