Jill is never done protecting her territory and is once more dragged in a great thriller when pregnant prostitutes start showing up dead randomly with all their organs and eyes taken out: not for delicate stomach. Jill isn't alone anymore though and she thanks god everyday for it. Saul Dustcircle came back to her and they built a relationship as stable as it can get when you are a hunter. Kismet, Saul and Perry are knee deep in a very complicated series of events and try to sort it all out, not without loosing some feathers in the process.

Another great novel by Lilith Saintcrow: Jill is more and more interesting. She's facing her hunted past more then once in that novel and grow as a character. Near-death experience rains in a story full of action and Treason. We are left wondering what the heck it is with Perry and his weird games, we want to know what he is! Hopefully we will find out in the third book of the series. ( )

Well what can I say! I took this book on the bus - bad idea, missed my stop completley and had to wait for the return journey. Such a great series. Can't wait to read more. ( )

Still solid, although not *quite* as good as the first one. The third one will show me if Saintcrow is really just not meant for series...

(that's as far as I could get with Dante. Well, almost as far, I couldn't finish the third Dante Valentine novel) ( )

Jill Kismet - town of Santa Luz - lives with were Saul.

Intriguing relationship with ambiguous Perry.

Well-developed world, throngs of identified and researched entities.

The darkness of the plot was not, i felt, held up by adequate revelations of kismet's psyche.

Saul annoyed me- yeah, I get he's part cat and all, but his behaviors were creepy. Territoriality, stated once, might be appealing...the repeated instances of it were just yawn-inducing. In fairness I don't get the appeal of were-critters in general.

In the second book of the Jill Kismet series we see her continuing to fight against her debt to Pericles and learning to live with Saul Dustcircle whom we met in the first book. Meanwhile Prostitutes are showing up dead and eviscerated, and it's Jill's job to find out why and make it stop. ( )