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Manufacturer: Ace
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780441016068
ISBN: 0441016065
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2008-06-24
Publisher: Ace
Studio: Ace
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Editorial Reviews:
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First in a stunning new urban fantasy series from an author who “NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE.” (BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW)
Demon hunter Maxine Kiss wears her armor as tattoos, which unwind from her body to take on forms of their own at night. They stand between her and her enemies, just as Maxine stands between humanity and the demons breaking out from behind the prison veils. It is a life lacking in love, reveling in death, until one moment—and one man— changes everything.
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Summary: A Great Read
Comment: The Iron Hunt is about how a girl named Maxamine Kiss fights demons. During the day She has tattoos all over her body except her face and head. These make her body hard and impenetrably hard. At night her tattoos come off her body and take the form of demons. Since her tattoos are gone Things can heart her, but The Demons known as Zee, Raw, Azz, Dec, and Mall protect her. Of the group only Zee can talk. In the book Maxamine has only a small number weapons: 12 knives 2 pistols and a 12 gauge shotgun ;^} Her mother had the same weapons and advantages as did her mother and her mother and so on. These were the last demon hunters. Not only did they fight zombies but they also needed to be ready in case the veil fell. The veil was the prison that held back the worlds most powerful demons, and if the veil fell it was the hunters job to kill them all. If you want to hear more about Maxamin's life then you have to get the book.
I recommend this book to people who can handle swearing and also this book is kind of grotesque.
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Summary: The Confusing Hunt
Comment: She is Earth's last protector. Hunter Maxine Kiss is the only thing standing between our world and the prison veils that keep demons from taking over our home. Passed down from mother-to-daughter for generations her own demons protect her body by day, resting as tattoos on her skin. At night her demons walk beside her, allies and parasites in their own right.
I wish I could offer more details on the plot. A better synopsis, but I spent most of the time I was working through this book back-tracking trying to figure out what I had missed. Were there lines I needed to be reading between perhaps? Liu is a great author, she has a wonderful imagination, but there was something missing in this story. I later found out part of that may have been because the story actually begins in an anthology. Some readers may like this but I found it to be a stumbling block. Why should I be forced to go out and buy an anthology so I could get the first chapters of this new series?
I tried to like it. I was very interested in the demons and how they came to be passed to Maxine and her maternal bloodline before her. Unfortunately very little was explained to help this part of the story along and while there were secondary characters I wanted to know more about and see more of I ended up finding Maxine herself to be a bit too two-dimensional for my tastes as a reader.
If you're a hard-core urban fantasy fan or demon slayers are a favorite heroine type for you this series might turn out to be right up your alley. For me, the results are still out there... I'll be waiting a while before bothering with any further installments.
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Summary: It was good
Comment: I thought it was good, but it had a hard time catching my interest but when it did I got into the book okay. Once it did, it was a good book. I won't read the next one in the series, however, I like the author and enjoy her books.
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Summary: Engrossing Urban Fantasy
Comment: I've been a fan of Marjorie M. Liu's urban fantasy romances for a while, so I jumped on this new series. The Iron Hunt shows Liu's ability to keep the reader guessing and the intensity keeps the pages turning throughout. Although this book has been tagged by some as a paranormal romance, it's not a romance at all. If you're looking for love, go to her Dirk and Steele series.
I loved the action and that the plot was so unpredictable. Too many books follow expected paths, allow readers to figure out where the line is drawn beween the good guys and the bad ones. This book even questions the heroine in places. The people you ant to believe in are the people you're not sure you can trust.
I was dissappointed with some aspects of this book, though. One major difference between this title and Liu's previous books that I have read is this one is in first person and the perspective seems to limit descriptive elements. It's as if the character of Hunter (Maxine) doesn't feel the need to talk about things she already knows, which in turn leaves the reader in the dark on many things. As an example, she never gave a good description of her living tattoos, in fact I was left with conflicting mental images of traditional inked imaged covering her and her entire body being a solid black.
Another problem was the lack of definitions or explainations for the terminology used. Every fantasy book has it's own anguage and meaning. Readers need a clear definition of new terms to help build the alternate reality. This book had nothing. Many times I was left trying to figure out exactly what a given word meant in the context of the story and came up blank.
Her lack of description and explainaton left me floudering in several action passages. I had to go back and figure out what was happening and how we got to such a strange point. The reader will be yanked out of one strange situation and into another with little to no transition.
The book is the first in a series, and there are many situations left unresolved an waiting for the next installment. Don't look for any clean endings in this one. Hopefully some of the terminology questions will be resolved in the next book, too.
Overall, "The Iron Hunt" is a very exciting read and I recommend it with the warning that it's not a good book to put down and pick up later. It's not a light read and is best suited fo someone who wants to get lost in a book for a while, preferable someone who can read it in one to three sittings. Like her other titles it's also intense and not for the squeamish, so be prepared for a bit of an "eew" factor.
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Summary: Weird
Comment: If I had to sum up this book in one word, the word would be WEIRD.
During the whole book Maxine is confused, scared and clueless. I was pretty confused also. The author tried to be poetic & dramatic, but there is nobody in the book to really care about, they were are all so flat.
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