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| Hunter's Prayer (Jill Kismet) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lilith Saintcrow
Publisher: Orbit
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 36473
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0316001767
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780316001762
ASIN: 0316001767
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Product Description
Another night on the Nightside...An ancient evil looms over Santa Luz. Prostitutes are showing up dead and eviscerated. And Jill Kismet just might be able to get her revenge against an old enemy.
There's just one problem. Someone wants Jill dead--again. And if they have to open up Hell itself to kill her, they will.
Sometimes, even when you're Jill Kismet, you don't have a prayer...
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 I enjoyed it! October 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jill Kismet is a hunter that patrols the Nightside. She handles the big bad that cross from the demon realm into the human realm. She also bears the demon mark of a hellbreed, Pericles, Perry for short. His mark allows her as a human to have remarkable strength and speed, but she pays the price for that mark by having to spend time with Perry every month in almost whatever way he wants to pass the time. In this second book in this new series, prostitutes are showing up dead and eviscerated. Jill must find out who is killing prostitutes in her city.
I liked this second book even better than the first book and the first book was very good. It had tons of action and is written in typical Lilith style. It had a great mystery that at the end really surprised me. I have found this second series much easier to read than the Dante Valentine series, but I like both very much. I like the relationship Jill has with a were cougar, Saul Dustcircle. This relationship seems more stable and less volatile than the one Danny shared with Japh. I also like the character Jill. She's vulnerable but tough. She is very similar to Danny and how Danny was in the first books. Hopefully, Jill won't turn out as needy and self destructive as Danny ended up being. I very much look forward to the next in this series.
 Glutton for Punishment October 6, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I may be in the minority here, but I wasn't impressed with this book. It was however, slightly better than Night Shift. This book had an adolescent feel to it for me. I was expecting more and felt like I got fluffed instead. I found this book completely unbelievable. Thankfully, Jill isn't pathetic like she was in Night Shift. This book had all the elements that I love in a story. Action, sex with no romance, dark characters and hellbreeds. I'm not sure where it all went wrong for me but I won't be reading the next installment.
 Good graphics novel/super heo sub genre September 14, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book really falls into the super hero sub genre of the urban fantasy genre. The heroine is a typical super hero from the darker type of graphic novel plot (I use graphic novel as this is not one but, the plot stile is very much in tune with that overall genre). Very much into violence with linear plot but there is a nice twist at the end and the heroine's ambiguous relationship with Perry adds some spice.
Very limited character development although the over all world building is pretty good both are limited. A good read but not what I was expecting.
totally kicks butt September 9, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Can I just say how much I love this Author's work? Hunter's Prayer is another kick butt mystery that keeps you glued to your seat. I finished this book in a day and a half because I could not put it down. This series is shaping up to be just as great as the Danny Valentine series.
If you're wondering who I'd compare this author to, she's like Laurell K Hamilton when Anita Blake focused on plot and not sex scenes.
There's great action and character development.
I can't get enough of Lilith Saintcrow
As usual, Lilith Saintcrow writes an entertaining, action-packed urban fantasy September 3, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Jill Kismet is a hunter; a human who kills the creatures of the nightside; evil beings who wish to destroy mankind. The local police are not equipped to deal with such beasts so they hire her when it looks like the supernatural committed a heinous crime.
She is called in to examine a body of a prostitute in which all the internal organs are gone and it looks like someone took out chunks of the victim to eat. Jill learns that others were found in the same condition. In between looking at dead bodies and trying to figure who or what killed them, Father Guillermo calls her to do an exorcism on seminary student Oscar. She is successful in pulling the demon of his body, but she later learns he is a Sorrow; a human who worships the Chaldean Elder Gods. If Sorrows are in Kismet's city, she is prepared to deal with them because she uses a hellbreed's mark, which gives her powers that originate in Hell. Jill discovers an old enemy is in town; the Sorrow who killed her mentor and she learns that a rebel Sorrow is performing a ritual that will allow the Nameless, Destroyer of Babies and Eaters of Worlds God to cross into our real unless she can locate and stop the evocation.
As usual, Lilith Saintcrow writes an entertaining, action-packed urban fantasy loaded with strange dark and evil monsters. Her Hunter world is grim yet hopeful as creatures of myths, legend and the night roam the earth. The heroine uses evil powers to fight for the better good and protect the innocent in a sort of fight fire with fire manner. Jill's romantic feelings for a were-cougar embellish an enjoyable paranormal thriller.
Harriet Klausner
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