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The Iron Hunt

by Marjorie M. Liu

Series: Hunter Kiss (1)

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Silver smoke winds around my torso, peeling away from my ribs and back, stealing the dark mist covering my hands and lower extremities...tattoos dissolving into demon flesh, coalescing into small dark bodies. My boys. The only friends I have in this world. Demons. I am a demon hunter. I am a demon. I am Hunter Kiss. By day, her tattoos are her armor. By night, they unwind from her body to take on forms of their own. Demons of the flesh, turned into flesh. This is the only family demon hunter Maxine Kiss has ever known. The only way to live--and the very way she'll die. For one day, her demons will abandon her for her daughter to ensure their own survival--leaving Maxine helpless against her enemies. But such is the way of Earth's last protector--the only one standing between humanity and the demons breaking out from behind the prison veils. It is a life lacking in love, reveling in death, until one moment--and one man--changes everything.… (more)
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Love her Dirk and Steel series. This one just didn't do it for me. Too much the same as others out there maybe? I don't really care for demons? The story just seemed too dark? Don't really know but I'll stick with Dirk and Steel. ( )
  Luziadovalongo | Jul 14, 2022 |
I like the idea behind the book, and I thought it was well executed, for the most part. I did feel like it never reached the confrontation it was leading up to...is it a series? If so, you can't really tell that, either. It left me wanting resolution and a little confused about what happened in the plot. I would read another book by her, but I want a better sense of story fulfillment.

And, ugh! I just read the little blurb associated with the book: it's much better than that! And while there is a romantic element, it is not the driving theme behind the book by any stretch of the imagination. ( )
  jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |
I'm glad I persisted past the first third. Initial language choppy. Short sentences. Fragments.

Fortunately, it got better, though I am left to wonder why the tone/language changed.

Bold choice in starting the series off sort of in media res for the heroine. She's grown up with her worldview, so it's not as though we missed the masquerade faltering when she hears The Call. She's settled, has a long-term boyfriend who she rescued from darkness and knows her unique situation, she's got an established enemy/antagonist. This serves to get the end of days plot going without lingering over lifestyle exposition, but it was also harder to accept those preexisting things, sort of. I guess other fiction has messed with my expectations of How Events Should Go.

Still digesting things. It's not quite resonating with me, and I'm not rushing to download the next book (and not just because I have 6 more library ebooks waiting), but I think I will definitely be reading the next one. ( )
  elam11 | May 30, 2020 |
I did enjoy the book, but it took me a while to get into it. Also, there was a significant amount of stuff that happened at the end that wasn't explained well enough for my liking. Now, seeing that this is intended to be a series, it makes sense. But the book is tied up neatly enough (and my copy has no mention that I saw of "book #1 of series") that I was sure it was a stand-alone.

Definitely worth checking out book #2. ( )
  ca.bookwyrm | May 18, 2020 |
This did not really work for me, despite an interesting premise (living demonic tattoos that can separate from the body; together, they fight demons, but also, they are demons), interesting approach (the book felt like it was really starting in media res of an ordinary paranormal romance arc) and a lot of things that I ordinarily like: female protagonist, maternal line, relative lack of unnecessary romantic tension, swords (eventually).

So why didn't it work? 1 - The prose. Too many sentence fragments. Fragments of sentences, repeated, dramatically. With drama. - 2 Too much talking about a mystery and not enough actual information, in ways that felt driven more by the need to have secrets than by the need of characters to keep secrets. I mean, if she's supposed to save the world, and some of them need her to do that, why not just tell her whatever the hell it is she's supposed to know? - 3 Lots of tough talk but not a lot of actual toughness. 4 - The mystery felt a little too cosmic woowoo. 5 - A long day's journey into some sort of mystic realm. I hate mystic realms.

I did like that she took time out from her busy life solving some kind of cosmic mystery to help people trapped by rubble from an earthquake. But was she only helping them because there was some possible demon connection?

Anyway, although I was drawn in right away, and stuck with it to finish it, I don't believe I'll be able to read more of this series, unless things shift dramatically. ( )
  lquilter | May 13, 2018 |
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Silver smoke winds around my torso, peeling away from my ribs and back, stealing the dark mist covering my hands and lower extremities...tattoos dissolving into demon flesh, coalescing into small dark bodies. My boys. The only friends I have in this world. Demons. I am a demon hunter. I am a demon. I am Hunter Kiss. By day, her tattoos are her armor. By night, they unwind from her body to take on forms of their own. Demons of the flesh, turned into flesh. This is the only family demon hunter Maxine Kiss has ever known. The only way to live--and the very way she'll die. For one day, her demons will abandon her for her daughter to ensure their own survival--leaving Maxine helpless against her enemies. But such is the way of Earth's last protector--the only one standing between humanity and the demons breaking out from behind the prison veils. It is a life lacking in love, reveling in death, until one moment--and one man--changes everything.

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