All Eve's Hallows: A City Knights Novel

by Dean Wesley Smith

Dragons, giants and goblins are all around us, magically hidden within human society as they and a whole bestiary of fantastic creatures have been for a thousand years. But when conflicts with humanity arise, someone has to keep the peace between the supernatural beings and the unsuspecting mortals who long ago drove everything magical into hiding―and then forgot about them. The City Knights is the thousand-year-old top-secret organization charged with protecting humanity from these mystic entities and vice Versa.

Genres: Mystery, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal

288 pages, Paperback

First published July 30, 2005

About the author

Pen Names
Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley

Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.

With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.

Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.

Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.

Reviews

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm almost a hundred pages in, and still not invested in the story. So I've decided not to finish it. Not because the book is bad per se, but because it's not my bag. I'm just not into fantasy that features unicorns (too girly) and magic spells that enable you to download knowledge directly into your brain (seems like a cheat).
ALL EVE'S HALLOWS is to the fantasy genre what MEN IN BLACK is to sci-fi. This makes it feel somewhat derivative, especially since other aspects of the book reminded me strongly of Kim Harrison's THE HOLLOWS series, which debuted one year before. And like Kim Harrison, author Dean Wesley Smith employs a light, tongue-in-cheek writing style that I don't much care for in novels about demons and sorcery.

[Tasula · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story of an ex-Marine who finds out magic is real and she holds strong magical power. Based in modern day New York City. Some violence, but overall light. No romance or sex. Reminds me a bit of Amy Lane's Vulnerable, which I really liked.