Path: nntp.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: "Demon's Bluff" by Kim Harrison Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 00:36:05 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: <104iao5$3ct82$2@dont-email.me> References: <104hf5g$33t1j$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2025 07:36:06 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0a3c32046285ce30a34982f4b3e68c90"; logging-data="3568898"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18DjUHbJiz9mN3R9wL/ofABLF0dieTialY=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:gXxLbIqfZXUdjsmx79DSSmaPtWg= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <104hf5g$33t1j$1@dont-email.me> On 7/7/2025 4:45 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > > Hi fellow denizens, > > Demon's Bluff by Kim Harrison > hardcover, 451 pages, $30, Ace. New York > Thankfully I got it at the San Francisco > Public Library Main in the New SF area. >        This is set in the Hollows as are > most of the tales in the endless (we hope) > saga of Rachel Morgan.  The world of the > Hollows is much like our own but Rachel > resides in Cincinati with a host of Vampires > both living and undead, some Weres, and > troublesome Elves, and  Demons who come >  in from the Ever-After  which in a previous >  volume Rachel with  some help recreated >  with power from ley lines.  She started as >  a witch but studied  and spelled hard and >  learned to twist  curses.  In this story she >  travels back  in time, but not alone but >   with an enemy. >  To retrieve a artifact she must solve a >  riddle from the maddest of demons. > >  May be the culmination of the series. > >        I enjoyed it very much despite my >  diminished capacity  for such.  Gotta >  work on eye evaluation appointment. > >        bliss I have the last 2 or 3 Rachel Morgan MMPB books in my SBR. I kinda burned out on them for now. Lynn