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  • "Demon's Bluff" by Kim Harrison

    From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 7 14:45:19 2025
    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

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.co on Mon Jul 7 21:53:05 2025
    In article <104hf5g$33t1j$1@dont-email.me>,
    Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> 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 not read this one, so I cannot comment specifically, but at some
    point in the series I just got so frustrated with Rachel's issues that I
    gave up. Maybe she works past that, but I found she was just not fun to
    spend time with anymore.
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 7 21:17:32 2025
    On 7/7/25 14:53, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <104hf5g$33t1j$1@dont-email.me>,
    Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> 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 not read this one, so I cannot comment specifically, but at some
    point in the series I just got so frustrated with Rachel's issues that I
    gave up. Maybe she works past that, but I found she was just not fun to spend time with anymore.

    Rachel Morgans issues make good stories for Kim Harrison and for
    people who recognize their own issues.
    Her's are so much worse than our issues.

    bliss

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