Friday, November 1, 2013

Friday Memes: Elysian Fields by Suzanne Johnson

Happy Friday everybody!
Book Beginnings on Friday is now hosted by Rose City Reader. The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice. Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

This week I am spotlighting Elysian Fields by Suzanne Johnson. I have enjoyed the first two books in this Sentinels of New Orleans series. Here is the description of this urban fantasy novel:
Elysian Fields by Suzanne Johnson is the fun, fast-paced third book in the Sentinels of New Orleans, a series of urban fantasy novels filled with wizards, mermen, and pirates. These novels are perfect for readers of paranormal fiction and “fans of Charlaine Harris and Cat Adams” (Booklist) and RT Bookreviews agrees that “for readers missing Sookie Stackhouse, this series may be right up your alley.”

The mer feud has been settled, but life in South Louisiana still has more twists and turns than the muddy Mississippi.

New Orleanians are under attack from a copycat killer mimicking the crimes of a 1918 serial murderer known as the Axeman of New Orleans. Thanks to a tip from the undead pirate Jean Lafitte, DJ Jaco knows the attacks aren’t random—an unknown necromancer has resurrected the original Axeman of New Orleans, and his ultimate target is a certain blonde wizard. Namely, DJ.

Combating an undead serial killer as troubles pile up around her isn’t easy. Jake Warin’s loup-garou nature is spiraling downward, enigmatic neighbor Quince Randolph is acting weirder than ever, the Elders are insisting on lessons in elven magic from the world’s most annoying wizard, and former partner Alex Warin just turned up on DJ’s to-do list. Not to mention big maneuvers are afoot in the halls of preternatural power.

Suddenly, moving to the Beyond as Jean Lafitte’s pirate wench could be DJ’s best option.
Beginning:
The scariest sound in New Orleans' French Quarter is silence.
Friday 56:
"Sure." The idea of alcohol kind of made me ill after the Jake incident, but the encounter with Quince Randolph had unsettled me. He'd all be admitted he wasn't human. Question was: why was a faery or elf hiding his species and hanging out with my friend Eugenie? 

2 comments:

  1. That beginning is awesome!!!!

    Happy weekend!

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  2. I see so many urban fantasies around but I've never read one. Guess I'd better give that genre a try!
    Here's my Friday post: Book Beginnings & Friday 56

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