false<![CDATA[Santa Olivia]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255658195m/5931169.jpg59311696Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth.
Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive "Wolf-Man" who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. The "Wolf-Men" were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear, and Loup, named for and sharing her father's wolf-like qualities, is marked as an outsider.
After her mother dies, Loup goes to live among the misfit orphans at the parish church, where they seethe from the injustices visited upon the locals by the soldiers. Eventually, the orphans find an outlet for their frustrations: They form a vigilante group to support Loup Garron who, costumed as their patron saint, Santa Olivia, uses her special abilities to avenge the town.
Aware that she could lose her freedom, and possibly her life, Loup is determined to fight to redress the wrongs her community has suffered. And like the reincarnation of their patron saint, she will bring hope to all of Santa Olivia.61036112952009Santa Oliviatotal:440|5:128|4:162|3:117|2:29|1:4|440170186914732falsefalseFri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009Mon Jul 13 21:11:44 -0700 2009Mon Aug 17 12:26:42 -0700 2009 However, if you are up for a quick adventure that is self contained and a bit...more...]]>
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Santa Olivia is the latest book by Jacqueline Carey, who is better known for, and much better known for the Sundering Duology, and much much better known for two Kushiel trilogies. While the former is a take on classic fantasy and the latter are milestone in dar...more...]]>
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Loup Garron is born in the forgo...more...]]>
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Jacqueline Carey fan for many years now, hooked on her bestselling Kushiel's Legacy Series. Heard about this paperback of hers and picked it up without hesitation since it is very different from her norm, which I would describe as novels with epic sagas of unbelievable richness.
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50falsefalseSat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sat Jun 20 06:13:58 -0700 2009Sat Jun 20 17:52:23 -0700 2009 (Synopsis from Amazon.com) SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth.
Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next ...more...]]>
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Santa Olivia, while ostensibly paranormal fiction, shares many qualities with this type of dystopian SF. I...more...]]>
41falsefalseSun Jun 07 07:13:06 -0700 2009Sun Jun 07 13:29:15 -0700 2009 It's better than that. Much better.
While the novel isn't about werewolves, it is about superheros, or at least what makes a heroine. ...more...]]>
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50falsefalseSun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009Fri Jul 17 20:47:38 -0700 2009Sun Jul 19 15:58:10 -0700 2009 I've said it before and I'll say it again: Jacqueline Carey could write a shopping list and I'd pay money to read it. She has a vivid imagination, a captivating writing style, and there is no one else writing SFF novels today who has anything like her combination of ...more...]]>
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Santa Olivia, her latest novel. Loup is a citizen of Outpost, a military-occupied town that's no longer part of any country - no-one comes in, apart from the military, and no-one leaves.
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