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Death Blows (The Bloodhound Files #2)
by
D.D. Barant
FBI profiler Jace Valchek was pulled into this parallel realm to hunt for Aristotle Stoker, a human serial killer who preys on vampires and werewolves. Now she works for the National Security Agency of the Unnatural States of America - and her boss is a vampire.
At a bizarre crime scene, Jace finds a bloodsucker murdered by magic, fried to the bone and dressed in the costu...more
At a bizarre crime scene, Jace finds a bloodsucker murdered by magic, fried to the bone and dressed in the costu...more
Kindle Edition, 332 pages
Published
March 30th 2010
by St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Death Blows by DD Barant is the second book in The Bloodhound Files. If you are not familiar with the series, it is a good, fun, urban fantasy with a twist: monsters (such as vampires, werewolves, and golems) exist in alternative worlds, and the heroine, Jace, is pulled into one of those worlds. Jace has been deliberately brought into the alternate universe because of her skills. She is a serial killer profiler and the alternate universe needs her expertise to solve a case. It is a very well don...more
This book was a chore to get through. In addition to vampires, werewolves and golems we get superheroes. I love superhero movies and the Bigtime Series by Jennifer Estep - very cute superhero series. This book, not so much.
It was an OVERLOAD of information. It was just too much! You get a lecture of time/space continuum and comic (or kamic) books, both in this world and the "real world." Turns out **spoiler alert** one of the main characters actually turns out to BE a superhero. Now what? Is he...more
It was an OVERLOAD of information. It was just too much! You get a lecture of time/space continuum and comic (or kamic) books, both in this world and the "real world." Turns out **spoiler alert** one of the main characters actually turns out to BE a superhero. Now what? Is he...more
3.5 stars, but I thought I'd round up.
Things I enjoyed:
- Jace and Charlie's relationship; by far my favorite part in the books thus far.
- I like the idea of alt universes and how nearly each person in the thrope/pire world has a doppelganger in Jace's world.
- I like the comic aspect, I thought it was interesting.
- Jace's wit had me laughing out loud on multiple occasions.
Things I didn't enjoy:
- There's only one thing I didn't really enjoy, and it was that this book was one big information dump....more
Things I enjoyed:
- Jace and Charlie's relationship; by far my favorite part in the books thus far.
- I like the idea of alt universes and how nearly each person in the thrope/pire world has a doppelganger in Jace's world.
- I like the comic aspect, I thought it was interesting.
- Jace's wit had me laughing out loud on multiple occasions.
Things I didn't enjoy:
- There's only one thing I didn't really enjoy, and it was that this book was one big information dump....more
Jace Valchek is a criminal profiler, so she deals with socio- and psychopaths all the time. That she’s in another universe where there wasn’t much mental illness before is something she’s still working out. She's stuck in this alternate world until she can track down and catch a human terrorist out to take down the non-human population and until she can find the mage who brought her to this world.
There is a slight issue with her being able to complete her search…she is still being called out for...more
There is a slight issue with her being able to complete her search…she is still being called out for...more
As you may have guessed from my Daring You To Read... post a little while ago, I’m a big fan of D. D. Barant’s Bloodhound Files. Having suggested the first book in the series, I thought it might be a good time to post about the second book, Death Blows, since I’m re-reading the series in anticipation of the fifth book, Back from the Undead, which is being released at the end of March. (I have previously been about Dying Bites, despite my appreciation of the rest of the series.)
First up, how gorg...more
First up, how gorg...more
I love the premise of this series. Jace reminds me of a young Anita Blake (Laurel K Hamilton) only before she became a total slutty harem holder....back to young kick ass Anita vampire hunter, who was someone a girl could look up to. That's Jace. She is sarcastic and independent and can handle herself around werewolves, vampires, golems, and psychos.
In this book, she pauses her hunt for Bram Stoker when murders hit those close to her. Namely, Gretchen's baby-daddy who gets found in a Flash costu...more
In this book, she pauses her hunt for Bram Stoker when murders hit those close to her. Namely, Gretchen's baby-daddy who gets found in a Flash costu...more
Death Blows by DD Barant is the second book in The Bloodhound Files. If you are not familiar with the series, it is a good, fun, urban fantasy with a twist: monsters (such as vampires, werewolves, and golems) exist in alternative worlds, and the heroine, Jace, is pulled into one of those worlds. Jace has been deliberately brought into the alternate universe because of her skills. She is a serial killer profiler and the alternate universe needs her expertise to solve a case. It is a very well don...more
This is book 2 in The Bloodhound Files series. In Death Blows, FBI Special Agent Jace Valchek, transported from our world to one inhabited by supernatural creatures, must solve a series of killings that are closely connected to comic book art. Comics are illegal in this world since an incident decades ago when they were a source of murderous magic that caused a number of deaths.
The villainous serial killer who is Jace's ultimate target is Aristotle Stoker (named after you know who), a tall, han...more
The villainous serial killer who is Jace's ultimate target is Aristotle Stoker (named after you know who), a tall, han...more
Jace's focus gets shifted in this book. While she is still determined to find Stoker since he is her ticket home, things get a little hairy when she gets assigned to a bizarre crime scene. The victim is staged like the comic book character, The Flash. There's one big problem however, comic books have been illegal for over 50 years in this reality, so no one but Jace knows who the Flash is. She quickly realizes the killer must have some sort of tie to her own world and it becomes a race to find h...more
Jace Valchek is a criminal profiler - she does crazy for a living. The fact that she was yanked out of our world by some major mojo and dropped into an alternate earth where the human population is a measly 1% and the other 99% are things that go bump in the night doesn't change that. She's stuck in this alternately fangy world, working for the NSA until she can track down and catch a human terrorist out to take down the large vampire (hemovore) and lycanthrope populations so the humans can stag...more
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This is the second book in the Bloodhound series. It sees Jace hard at work tracking down the one man whose capture will give her her ticket back to own reality. Unfortunately for her, the events of book one are still going strong and she soon finds her time and energies diverted to a new series of comic book themed murders. I have some familiarity with the comic book world but even so I'm not sure I followed all the logic here as Jace puzzled things out. But I'm really starting to like Jace, es...more
3.5 Stars. This book was a departure from the first book in more ways than one. The first book had NSA Agent Jace Valchek hunting for Aristotle Stoker, the serial killer taking out vampires and werewolves. That's what she was brought over to this alternate reality to do, and the way she was to get to go home to her reality.
This time around, there was only lip service to the hunt for Stoker. Jace had a new round of murders to investigate; ones patterned after those in comic books. Yes, comic boo...more
This time around, there was only lip service to the hunt for Stoker. Jace had a new round of murders to investigate; ones patterned after those in comic books. Yes, comic boo...more
Book two in The Bloodhound Files and I've begun to lose interest. Which is a shame, because it started with such potential. Alternate universe with vampires, lycanthropes and golems, and a whole lot of magical intrigue thrown in for good measure. Not to mention the fast wit of the female protagonist. I had high hopes for the series and book two was kind of entertaining, but still lacked something for me.
I think it was the romance, or lack there of. Cassius even spends a night or two at Jace's ap...more
I think it was the romance, or lack there of. Cassius even spends a night or two at Jace's ap...more
This book is the second of the series, best read in order. The first one is Dying Bites
A very fast abstract of the first book (view spoiler)...more
A very fast abstract of the first book (view spoiler)...more
Apr 23, 2012
Ami
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
urban-fantasy-paranormal-futuristic
Plot summary ... Since this is for personal reason -- so I can remember -- I put it under spoiler tag.
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I have always liked first person story telling. DD barant tells this story really well.
Every time Jace thinks she is getting a handle on her new life something happens to remind her that Kansas is a hell of a long way from here. Comic books on this world - or in this case Kamic books - have been outlawed since the 1960s. Back then a group of enterprising bad guys figured out they could tap into some major mystical mojo with specially written kamic books. To counter this the government published...more
Every time Jace thinks she is getting a handle on her new life something happens to remind her that Kansas is a hell of a long way from here. Comic books on this world - or in this case Kamic books - have been outlawed since the 1960s. Back then a group of enterprising bad guys figured out they could tap into some major mystical mojo with specially written kamic books. To counter this the government published...more
Jace is still on the hunt for the man responsible for the cause of insanity to thousands of the inhabitants of this dimension, which is her key to getting home. A new case comes up in the meantime that might involve him, but also seems to involve her friend Dr. Pete. There is a lot more to Dr. Pete than meets the eye as we soon discover. It seems that in this world comics are not just illustrated books but actually come to life and were banned decades ago. But some of the villians and heroes of...more
WOW! Ok - This book - ha ha -
Hard to discribe this book - the reading was like the first book - Dying Bites - it was slow and hard to follow along - but over all - it was a pretty good book.
Death Blows ended... wow - ok well without giving anything away - I thought I was going to skip the 3rd book that is coming out - but it looks like I have to go reserve it at the library now - I need to find out what happens with Dr Pete ... I wont say what happened to him - but it sounds like it will be fu...more
Hard to discribe this book - the reading was like the first book - Dying Bites - it was slow and hard to follow along - but over all - it was a pretty good book.
Death Blows ended... wow - ok well without giving anything away - I thought I was going to skip the 3rd book that is coming out - but it looks like I have to go reserve it at the library now - I need to find out what happens with Dr Pete ... I wont say what happened to him - but it sounds like it will be fu...more
With Barant's second outing of the Bloodhound Files, I have now placed the author on my "un-put-downable" list. Jace Valchek, the "Bloodhound", is a FBI profiler that has been brought to an alternate reality where the human population makes up only 1% of the world's population. The other 99% are all paranormal creatures that exist here only in horror stories - vampires, werewolves, golems, etc. Jace's skills were needed to figure out a serial killer's motives (since pires and thropes did not suf...more
Wow, the second book in "The Bloodhound Files" is really detailed and strangely unique. I'm partly speechless, of course in positive way. I truly enjoyed the storyline from this second book, where Jase is pulled into a bizarre case. I have to admit that I couldn't stop till the end. I truly loved it all. Jace, is really a complex character, full of sarcasm and acts of being irreverent to everyone around herself. In general speaking, Jace is really a hard person. Charlie is her Golem bodyguard or...more
Jace is hot on the heels of stoker the man she needs to capture to be sent home to the normal world where vampires and werewolves are nothing more than fictional. For now she is partnered with charile her golem partner, her boss is a vampire, her dr is a werewolf that’s just life in this realm she get’s called off the current case to deal with someone killing off members of a secret government team, that was idolized into legends via comics.
No problem jace is a criminal profiler who specializes...more
No problem jace is a criminal profiler who specializes...more
Death Blows by D D Barant is about Jace, who is pulled from our world into a parallel universe. She is a very successful FBI profiler and they need her to hunt down a criminal. This is a world where only 1% of the population is human. Someone is killing people (ok a given), the first body is dressed as The Flash, a comic book hero who doesn't exist in this world. Other deaths follow all tied to comic books.
This book is aimed at people who love graphic novels and get the references. It is action...more
This book is aimed at people who love graphic novels and get the references. It is action...more
May 16, 2012
Ria
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
cops,
crime,
death,
magic,
shapeshifters,
werewolves,
urban-fantasy,
vampires,
time-travel,
alternate-reality
This book was nuts, but deliciously so. The first book was great but as I started book 2, I was genuinely concerned that similar territory would be trod as Jace hunted Stoker in an effort to return to her own reality. And then the first murder took place, in which the vampire victim is electrocuted, leaving behind a green skeleton dressed up as the superhero The Flash on a treadmill.
The plot kept me guessing throughout and the craziness kept me enthralled. I loved the use of comic mythology and...more
The plot kept me guessing throughout and the craziness kept me enthralled. I loved the use of comic mythology and...more
(As spoiler-free as possible)
It was much the same as the first in the series as far as pacing and humor goes. Jace has really begun to find her niche in her new world, although there are still times that she feels overwhelmed. She says she wants to go home but I don't believe it. Maybe I'm just projecting. I absolutely don't want her to go back home. I get the feeling that she really doesn't have much to go back to. Her job, definitely but she never mentions or even thinks about, anyone she has...more
It was much the same as the first in the series as far as pacing and humor goes. Jace has really begun to find her niche in her new world, although there are still times that she feels overwhelmed. She says she wants to go home but I don't believe it. Maybe I'm just projecting. I absolutely don't want her to go back home. I get the feeling that she really doesn't have much to go back to. Her job, definitely but she never mentions or even thinks about, anyone she has...more
A little too wacky for me. Throwing vampires, werewolves, comic book superheroes and alt-history together just didn't work for me.
I think my primary sticking point was that the alt-history seems to be based more on the Rule of Funny than any sort of internal consistency. My suspension of disbelief gets jarred every time I see some close real world analogue (Seinfeld TV show, with Jerry as a vampire and Kramer as a werewolf, telling similar jokes to a particular real world episode) despite a dive...more
I think my primary sticking point was that the alt-history seems to be based more on the Rule of Funny than any sort of internal consistency. My suspension of disbelief gets jarred every time I see some close real world analogue (Seinfeld TV show, with Jerry as a vampire and Kramer as a werewolf, telling similar jokes to a particular real world episode) despite a dive...more
I had fun reading this one. COmics play a big part in this mystery. As always, I'm more enamored of Jace's partner, the Fedora wearing, T-Rex inhabited Golem, than Jace. Jace is a fun character (although very acerbic), and I like the other inhabitants of this reality. The banter is good and the pacing is quick. Seemed a bit rushed at the end, especially with what happened to one of the main characters. Still on the fence with how I feel about it, but I like this series, and I'm willing to go wit...more
One of *the* best damn UF's I've ever read. Take Criminal Minds and Supernatural add a heroine who is every bit as tough as Salt's character and you have yourself a helluva ride in a book. Talk about a mindfuck of epic proportions. You have to check out the synopsis for yourself. Death Blows is so rich in detail and I'm kinda stunned that more people haven't grabbed up this series it's so hella good.
But it's not surprising that the writing is so intense. Barant has written tie-ins for CSI Miami...more
But it's not surprising that the writing is so intense. Barant has written tie-ins for CSI Miami...more
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Pseudonyms: Don DeBrandt & Donn Cortez
DD Barant lives in Vancouver, BC, and loves monsters, chocolate, animals, reading, comics and lying naked on the beach, while hating bullies, narrow-minded people, Sea Urchin Sushi and gluten. He has stated that D.D. Barant is a pseudonym, and that it is not the only pseudonym under which he writes.
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DD Barant lives in Vancouver, BC, and loves monsters, chocolate, animals, reading, comics and lying naked on the beach, while hating bullies, narrow-minded people, Sea Urchin Sushi and gluten. He has stated that D.D. Barant is a pseudonym, and that it is not the only pseudonym under which he writes.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/ddbarant
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