In this world, people are aware that the supernatural-or eldritch, as Carey prefers to refer to it-exists. Daisy, whose role as Hel’s liaison has, until now, mostly consisted of busting fairies who are messing with tourists, suddenly finds herself with an immortal-killing dagger and a lot of pressure on her to solve this thing before the outside world decides to wipe Pemkowet’s eldritch community off the map.Ĭarey’s approach to how much regular humans know about the supernatural is an interesting middle point between the two extreme positions. All signs point to a ghoul who has since skipped town, but there might be some other players in the game. It looks like an accident, but there was magic involved. I mean, the mystery is third-rate at best. (Spoiler: she does, and it’s even better the second time around.) Like many other series in this style, Dark Currents is better more for the promise of the future than the delivery of the present. Rather, it’s great at setting up a new series-and one of the reasons I wanted to read the second book so badly was to see if Carey could bottle that lightning again. Instead, she gets to play a kind of cross between supernatural diplomat and enforcer, and she even gets a sweet dagger while she’s doing it.īut I want to emphasize that even though I enjoyed the book, I don’t think it’s a great novel. Sure, Daisy could claim her birthright, become some kind of super-powered succubus demon, and break the Inviolate Wall and start Armageddon. It’s not dark, brooding urban fantasy, despite the title or the protagonist’s status as a hellspawn half-breed. I’m going to be pretty positive about this book, because it was fun.
But I made an exception after finishing Dark Currents, because I really did like it, and I wanted to read more about Daisy Johanssen. Normally I don’t read new series back-to-back like this I like to intersperse a few other books in between, just for breathing room. The library does, and the book was, and that’s the story. So I did the usual dance of rushing over to the computer and checking if the library has book 1 and, better yet, if it’s available at that branch. I ran across the paperback of Autumn Bones last week-yes, book 2 of the series, already in paperback.
I saw it on io9, added it to my to-read list.īecause that’s what happens when you have a list so long that even if you stop adding books to it today, it will take you about four years to get through it.įortunately, my library has my back. Dark Currents, the anticipated debut to Jacqueline Carey’s new urban fantasy series Agent of Hel, got my attention back when it first came out.
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