Demon’s Bluff

Demon's Bluff by Kim Harrison
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Rachel is infuriating. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love this crew of characters, but the way Rachel stumbles through life is so frustrating. This book, in particular, lands somewhere around 3.5 stars for me just because I struggled to motivate myself to pick this one up again when I stopped.

We join Rachel still in the thick of things like vampire politics. She’s still leading from her secret position behind the official vampire ruler and she is also still struggling with the curse she cast in the last book. Without a key component of the counter-curse, the coven is threatening to throw her in a cell. Elyse, the new leader of the coven, sets off a series of decisions that somehow makes it logical in Rachel’s mind to go back in time. It’s kind of hard to explain, but she needs to go on a solo trip back 5 years so she can get the missing piece of the counter-curse from the most powerful demon in existence.

Of course, things don’t go as expected. Not only are we left alone without our other familiar characters but she ends up with Elyse, who is probably the most annoying character in the series. It was a buddy adventure I never wanted to read, but somehow had to because there’s a true threat that Rachel can muck up the future if she changes too many things. Don’t worry, though, because there is a lot of hand waving that goes on to explain away just about everything. I wasn’t rooting for Rachel to fail or anything, but it was a truly frustrating read.

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