Summer read and liked Anita's review of Unclean Spirits (The Black Sun's Daughter, #1):

"I love it when you pick up a book with no expectations and are blown away by it. This book did that to me. It's a contemporary/urban fantasy set in Denver, and it's one of the best series intros I've read in a long time.

Jayne Heller inhe...more I love it when you pick up a book with no expectations and are blown away by it. This book did that to me. It's a contemporary/urban fantasy set in Denver, and it's one of the best series intros I've read in a long time.

Jayne Heller inherited everything from her uncle, Eric Heller, when she was only 23. Along with money and property, she also chose to claim his life's work as a part of that inheritance - hunting down evil beings called riders that take over human bodies (vampires, weres, other demons that possess humans). She doesn't know what she's doing, but she has some talent, and she hooks up with some people who had assisted Eric in the past to try to take down the demon who killed Eric.

There are hints at romance along the way, but this story is mostly a drama, not too heavy on the action. The part that made this such a wonderful book, in my opinion, was the emotional resonance I felt with Jayne. Her thoughts and feelings seemed so real! Bravada be damned, this woman feels fear and insecurity in entirely appropriate ways. When she makes mistakes, you understand why. The character development feels effortless - very early on, I cared about the characters in this book.(less) "