
In fact, by the time this series starts, the vampires and the witches are lobbying the government to grant them the rights they believe they deserve. The existence vampires and witches are known to the public. The Jane Yellowrock series takes place in a world where the supernatural is commonplace. The books only attracted interest and attention in the years that followed, drawing readers in because of their strong female character. The Jane Yellowrock series was merely one in a sea of dozens of urban fantasy novels, if not hundreds. A significant number of the novels hitting the bookshelves and making a splash on bestseller lists in the late 2000s involved some sort of mythic creature from the annals of horror emerging to either cause havoc or fight to save humanity.Īs such, it isn’t that surprising that Skinwalker did not have much of an impact when it first came out. At the time, the urban fantasy genre was at its peak. Skinwalker, the first novel, was published in 2009. It’s quite an adjustment for her to make and I admired how Faith Hunter lets the realisation dawn upon her a little at a time.īeast is one of my favourite characters in this series and I’m really enjoying the new I/we combination of Jane and Beast which allows them to work together and talk to each other while still keeping their separate identities.The Jane Yellowrock series can be categorized as urban fantasy. If she dies, whoever kills her will not treat them well. As the book progresses, Jane’s attention is mostly taken up by the realisation that being the Dark Queen means that when she puts herself at risk, she puts all her people at risk. She’s not haunted by them but she’s not blind to them. One of the things I liked about the book was how Jane see the ghosts of her own past actions everywhere she goes. You and the places you’re in keep changing.

Yes, we did go back to New Orleans, where everything began but True Dead was a great example of the truth that you can never go back. She delivered an emotionally intense, action-packed novel that, despite being fifteen and a half hours long, I wolfed down in two days.

Still, you either trust an author or you don’t, so I put my disappointment aside and waited to see where Faith Hunter took me and what she did to Jane in the process. I’d harboured a hope that Jane might go off and do something new, although I had no idea what. I was a little disappointed that the answer was New Orleans. Two years ago, the last novel, Shattered Bonds, went a long way to rebooting the series after the long story arc with Leo and the European vamps came to an end in Dark Queen, so I was keen to see where Jane would go next.

That’s quite an achievement by Faith Hunter. So here I am at the fourteenth Jane Yellowrock book and I’m still having a good time.
