false 2281814 2 <B>First in a stunning new urban fantasy series from an author who NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE. (<I>BOOKLIST</I>, STARRED REVIEW)</B><BR><BR>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. 2288010 book 24 6 2008 The Iron Hunt (Hunter Kiss, #1) total:341|5:59|4:121|3:101|2:41|1:19| 341 1183 690 65 4 4 false false Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 16:03:50 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 16:18:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 10:16:29 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 10:56:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 13:11:22 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 14:32:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Sep 16 17:55:20 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 17:55:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 01 10:46:47 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 12:17:26 -0700 2009
That's the first sentence of Marjorie M. Liu's The Iron Hunt, and it's just about perfect as opening lines go. It's the primary reason I bought the book. Not only does it draw the reader in, eager to find out ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 05 15:34:08 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 00:46:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 17:53:36 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 21:33:41 -0700 2009
The reason for three stars is that I was confused throughout the first half of the book. I expect the first book in...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 22:48:43 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 01:03:36 -0800 2009 1
The book was a bit confusing at times, but I think that was intentional. I felt like I was read...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 19 12:16:08 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 17 10:56:12 -0700 2009
Imagine a woman cover...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 00:39:54 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 20:32:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 20:53:45 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 05:12:35 -0700 2009 Hunter Kiss (the companion novella) before reading The Iron Hunt. It is certainly possible to begin with this book, but it will be a much smoother read (less confusing) with the novella as background. Liu has a beautiful sense of imagery, and an amazing imagination...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 22:16:07 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 14:11:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 29 20:22:24 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 20:22:37 -0700 2008 Marjorie M. Liu
320 pages
June 24, 2008
ISBN-10: 0441016065
ISBN-13: 978-0441016068
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Synopsis:
“Living tattoos: Demons of the flesh, turned into flesh. The only family demon hunter Maxine Kiss has ever known. The only way to live—and the ve...more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 14:24:48 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 19:11:34 -0700 2008
Maxine Kiss is the world's last hope. For 10000 years demons have been trapped behind a veil. She is charged with killing those demons tha...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 15:15:05 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 15:15:34 -0700 2008 The heroine is a demon slayer who has demon protectors tattooed onto her body. All the demons, which are sort of like the standard demon interpretation, ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 21:59:47 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 09:20:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 01:49:03 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 00:04:22 -0700 2009 When I was eight, my mother lost me to zombies in a one-card draw."

The story was a whole lot of fun: dangerous woman in a dangerous situation, hereditary demon tattoos passed down matrilineally , cryptic Faustian bargains, Lovecraftian horror...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 18 20:56:52 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 13:09:22 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 20:56:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 18:33:24 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 11:29:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 26 14:02:46 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 14:04:52 -0700 2009 Great plot, wonderful heroine - the last bastion of hope for the world against demons that threaten to break free from their ethereal prison world and...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2281814