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An urban fantasy to rival many of the best sellers and beat a good number of them. Why is there not more talk about this author? This was a great adventure. Well developed characters in a well developed paranormal subculture. Romance, but no sex - no problem. There are murders happening and you become more interested in finding the killer along with the heroine. I would imagine the relationships with the men she meets in this novel will grow in future stories. I'll be watching out for them.

fantastic! i loved every second of it and can't wait to read the next book. enough sexual tension for the romance lover, but no actual sex scenes for the urban fantasy lover. it is a keeper!

This is both suspenseful and original.Lori Devoti has created an Amazon culture from a combination ancient Greek legends and her own imagination. I was bowled over. This is one of the best fantasy novels I've read.

After some kind of disaster, Melanippe "Mel" Saka has given up the Amazon life and moved to Madison Wisconsin to open a tattoo parlor along with her mother, grandmother and daughter. When dead Amazon girls start appearing on her doorstep with tattoos excised from their flesh, she is very concerned for her daughter. Very slowly the story builds (and I do mean slowly. It took almost 200 pages to get interesting.) and we learn why Mel left and why the Amazon Queen suspects Mel of these terrible deeds.

I had a lot of trouble getting into this book. I don't know if it was because I didn't like Mel, who seems incredibly wishy-washy to me or maybe it's just her pushy mother and grandmother running her life. Either way, it was well over halfway before she got a backbone and became the warrior I expected her to be. I enjoyed the ending and look forward to reading the next book. I liked Peter (the tattoo artist she hired) but I also liked detective Reynolds and I'm interested to see whom Mel chooses.