Name: Elysian Fields (Sentinels of New Orleans Series Book Three)
Author: Suzanne Johnson
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Tor Books
Date of Publication: August 13, 2013
ISBN: 978-0765333193
ASIN: B00CQY7TOI
Number of pages: 352
Word Count: approx. 102,000
Cover Artist: Cliff Nielsen
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.
Fighting off 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.
Name: River Road (Sentinels of
New Orleans Book Two)
Author: Suzanne Johnson
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 978-0765327802
ASIN: B00842H5VI
Number of pages: 336
Word Count: approx. 92,000
Cover Artist: Cliff Nielsen
Hurricane Katrina is long gone, but the preternatural
storm rages on in New Orleans. New species from the Beyond moved into Louisiana
after the hurricane destroyed the borders between worlds, and it falls to
wizard sentinel Drusilla Jaco and her partner, Alex Warin, to keep the
preternaturals peaceful and the humans unaware. But a war is brewing between
two clans of Cajun merpeople in Plaquemines Parish, and down in the swamp, DJ
learns, there’s more stirring than angry mermen and the threat of a were-gator.
Wizards are dying, and something—or someone—from the
Beyond is poisoning the waters of the mighty Mississippi, threatening the
humans who live and work along the river. DJ and Alex must figure out what
unearthly source is contaminating the water and who—or what—is killing the
wizards. Is it a malcontented merman, the naughty nymph, or some other critter
altogether? After all, DJ’s undead suitor, the pirate Jean Lafitte, knows his
way around a body or two.
Name: Royal Street (Sentinels of New Orleans Book One)
Author: Suzanne Johnson
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 978-0765327796
ASIN: B006OM459U
Number of pages: 337
Word Count: approx. 94,000
Cover Artist: Cliff Nielsen
As the junior wizard
sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco's job involves a lot more potion-mixing
and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires
and lethal were-creatures. DJ's boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the
wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip
over from the preternatural beyond.
Then Hurricane Katrina
hammers New Orleans' fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood
waters. While winds howled and Lake Pontchartrain surged, the borders between
the modern city and the Otherworld crumbled. Now the undead and the restless
are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering
soldiers sent to help the city recover.
To make it worse, Gerald St.
Simon has gone missing, the wizards' Elders have assigned a grenade-toting
assassin as DJ's new partner, and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her
walk his plank. The search for Gerry and the killer turns personal when DJ
learns the hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the
unlikeliest places, and duty mixed with love creates one bitter roux.
On
Aug. 28, 2005, Suzanne Johnson loaded two dogs, a cat, a friend, and her mom
into a car and fled New Orleans in the hours before Hurricane Katrina made
landfall.
Four
years later, she began weaving her experiences and love for her city into the
Sentinels of New Orleans urban fantasy series, beginning with Royal Street (2012), continuing with River Road (2012), and now with Elysian Fields (August 2013).
She
grew up in rural Alabama, halfway between the Bear Bryant Museum and Elvis’
birthplace, and lived in New Orleans for fifteen years—which means she has a
highly refined sense of the absurd and an ingrained love of SEC football and
fried gator on a stick.
She
can be found online at her website
or her daily blog, Preternatura.
As Susannah Sandlin, she writes
the best-selling Penton Vampire Legacy paranormal romance series and the recent
standalone, Storm Force.
By midafternoon, I was out of ideas and full of nervous energy that finally sent me out of doors, catching up on yard work I’d neglected all season, raking the small, crunchy leaves from the live oaks into piles a kid would love to play in.“Need help?”I ignored the voice and counted to ten, hoping it would go away. Instead, Quince Randolph knelt next to a tall pyramid of leaves I’d erected and took the lid off the big green trash can he’d brought with him. He began scooping up armfuls and piling them in the can. “You should compost this down. It would make a good mulch for flowerbeds. Plus you need more color in your landscaping.”“Whatever.” I didn’t know what mulch was, didn’t care enough to ask, and had such a brown thumb that flowers never survived my gardening efforts.Rand wore a chocolate-brown sweater almost the same color as mine, with jeans in a similar wash. With our comparable shades of long blond hair, we resembled grown-up Bobbsey Twins, except he was prettier. Freddie and Flossie do New Orleans.“Are you here for any particular reason?”He squinted up at me against the soft afternoon sunlight. “I just want to get to know you better.”Uh- huh. “Tell me what you are, and then we’ll know each other better. I’m betting elf or faery.” I was kind of betting elf— it might explain his interest in me although, thankfully, he’d never shown any inclination to plunder my brain.He grinned. “Go to dinner with me and I might tell you.”I noted the return of his peridot earrings. Big liar. Super-big cheater. “Where’s Eugenie? You know, your girlfriend?”A flash of irritation spoiled his perfect features a half second before he answered. “Working. Can we—”What ever he planned to ask, my answer would be no, but he didn’t get a chance because a clomping noise reached us from the direction of Prytania Street. Rand and I both were stricken speechless at the sight of Jean Lafitte sitting like royalty in the back of a gold and white French Quarter tourist carriage. It was being pulled by a light- gray mule wearing a hat festooned withfake flowers and driven by a smiling guy who had no idea how many daggers his undead pirate passenger had hidden on him.The ornate carriage rolled to a stop, and the mule flicked an ear at the passing traffic. Those animals pulled tourists around the French Quarter all day, and it would take more than an impatient Toyota driver to rattle one of them. The carriages were also ridiculously expensive if one commissioned a ride outside the Quarter.Then again, Jean Lafitte was loaded. The driver probably had a reason to smile.Jean exited the carriage with extraordinary grace for such a large man. He was tall, powerfully built, black-haired, cobalt-eyed, a shameless flirt, and talked with a raspy French accent that made me swoon even though he was technically dead. In other words, I had a bit of a problem with Jean Lafitte and my own common sense being present at the same time.Jean said a few words to the carriage driver, then turned to prop his hands on his hips in a broad pirate-like stance, giving Rand a disapproving visual once-over. The mule backed up afew awkward steps before pulling the carriage into my driveway.God help me, I hoped Alex didn’t get home in time to see this. I’d never hear the end of it.“Do you wish me to rid you of this intruder, Jolie?”
i love this series!!!! Really if you love urban fantasy with action and humourt ( touch of romance this is teh series for you)
ReplyDeleteElysiand fields is darker than book 1 and two but the story is really captivating!!
I, too, have fallen in love with this series. I can't get enough of the setting and the characters. TU!
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