Authoress
:
D.J. Westerfield writing as June Stevens
Official
website :
Series
:
The Moon
Sisters
Part 1 :
Voodoo Moon
Part 2 :
Immortal Moon
Genre
:
Urban
Fantasy - Post Apocalypse / Adult Romance 18+
Description
on the Official website :
A sinister
magic is sweeping across Nash City…
To Fiona
Moon, it’s just another day at work. And some days, well, they’re a helluva lot
worse than others. As a member of the elite Black Blade Guard, Fiona is tasked
with hunting down the most-dangerous Paranorm criminals. To find out who is
kidnapping mages and sucking the life energy from their bodies, she has to work
with the one man that embodies everything she despises.
Master
Necromancer Ian Barroes, a rich professor of Necromantic Studies, wants only
one thing in this world… Fiona.
They each
hold secrets that could destroy them, but that could also be the key to
destroying the evil Voodoo priest, Bokor. They must learn to trust each other
and track down Bokor before more innocent lives are lost. When Fiona becomes a
target of the evil madman, she is lured into his trap. Now, she and Ian have to
fight for survival… and their very souls.
*****
Description as I would publish it :
A little
over two hundred years ago in the year of technology called 2012, the North and
South Poles started shifting. It was gradual at first and lasted a couple of
decades. When it was over, the shift wasn't exactly ninety degrees, but it was
close enough that east became north, north became west, and so on. The shift
caused a climatic Cataclysm that pounded the world with storms, earthquakes,
and other natural disasters for more than forty years.
Damn Mayans.
Whole cities
were destroyed, and governments crumbled. Famine ran rampant. Widespread panic
caused wars, which killed even more than the natural disasters and starvation.
When the smoke and weather finally cleared, the world had changed drastically.
What had once been the Eastern United States was now a peninsula called
Appalachia made up of a range of mountains in the west and bordered by the
Atlantic Ocean inn the north and east, as well as the newly formed Mississippi
Sea in the south. Only two major cities, what had once been Nashville and
Atlanta, remained partially standing. From those ruins rose the autonomous
city-states of Nash and Atlanta.
For more than fifty years after the start of
the Cataclysm, every city, town and community was at war with each other and
internally. Finally, the Paranorm Council of Elders stepped in to bring peace
and unity. While the two city-states were completely autonomous in rule, they
were allied under the Council of Elders along with three other city-states -
Okie City and Sanlou to the south, and New Winnipeg in the west. Many
areas in the south and west had resisted the Council. Some set up legitimate
governments of their own, but many other were ruled by warlords and
tyrants.
The
city-state of Nash claimed jurisdiction over several small fishing, farming and
industrial villages throughout southern Appalachia, but the main part of it was
built around the heart of the original city and separated into two main parts -
Nash City and New Nashville.
The walls of
Nash City rose up out of the ground like a lumpy, gray fortress. Sentries
marched along the top. The path and most of the materials for the walls of Nash
City had once been a vast highway that looped around downtown Nashville. But
when the Cataclysm began, mages and other paranorms used it as the building
blocks of a wall to protect the people who huddled within.
*****
I absolutely love the setting. What I wrote above is really just a part from the book where the current situation is explained. But during the story you come to realize that the writer did a great job in figuring out all the details and consequences of the Cataclysm. And yes, I'm a sucker for details. The main character is Fiona Moon, one of the three Moon sisters, and she is a kick-ass Black Blade Guard. The story of the Moon sisters is just as well thought off as the setting is. Most of the characters I came across are in fact quite interesting. Even though it is a Romantic 18+ paranorm novel it does have a great background story. At the moment I've only read the first part, Voodoo Moon, but I will be reading the second part soon enough.
