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    City of Light
    City of Light
    City of Light
    Audiobook11 hours

    City of Light

    Written by Keri Arthur

    Narrated by Mia Barron

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    When the bombs that stopped the species war tore holes in the veil between this world and the next, they allowed entry to the Others-demons, wraiths, and death spirits who turned the shadows into their hunting grounds. Now, a hundred years later, humans and shifters alike live in artificially lit cities designed to keep the darkness at bay.... As a dechet-a breed of humanoid super-soldiers almost eradicated by the war-Tiger has spent her life in hiding. But when she risks her life to save a little girl on the outskirts of Central City, she discovers that the child is one of many abducted in broad daylight by a wraith-like being-an impossibility with dangerous implications for everyone on earth. Because if the light is no longer enough to protect them, nowhere is safe...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 5, 2016
    ISBN9781501916052
    City of Light
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    Keri Arthur

    Keri Arthur, author of the New York Times bestselling Riley Jenson Guardian series, has now written more than forty novels. She’s received several nominations in the Best Contemporary Paranormal category of the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards and has won RT’s Career Achievement Award for urban fantasy. She lives with her daughter in Melbourne, Australia.

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    • 3/5
      During the war between humans and shifters, humans created the déchet--hybrid supersoldiers. Most of the déchet were brutally killed, but Tiger survived the war and has been in hiding for over a century. Until the day she rescues a little girl and her shifter bodyguard and finds herself caught up in another war. Fresh & interesting.

      [I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review.]
    • 4/5
      Good quality writing with gripping storyline, although character description and history could be better
    • 4/5
      Fair warning: I received a review copy of this book from a site I've since forgotten the name of.Tiger is a dechet - a breed of humanoid super soldiers that were nearly eradicated in the last major war of more than a century ago between the races. And by races, I mean humans, vampires, and shapeshifters. The humans and vampires lost, and the shifters won by playing dirty - tearing holes between worlds and allowing the Others (death spirits, wraiths, demons, etc). As far as Tiger knows, she is the last of her kind, and only survived by a fluke.Surrounded by the ghosts of the children she had been guarding on the last day of the war, Tiger just barely gets by. But one day, her ghostly friends urge her to save a child from vampires, and her world suddenly expands to include several inhabitants of the nearby Central City. Little does she know that this act will lead to being pulled into a new, oncoming war, this time between the Others and everyone else.This is my first Keri Arthur book, but it will certainly not be the last. This hit all my sweet spots - fantasy, sci fi, and romance - and with plenty of action and a realistic heroine. I'm definitely looking forward to the next volume in the series.
    • 5/5
      What a unique new series by Keri Arthur. No urban fantasy fan should pass it up!We find out immediately upon reading THE CITY OF LIGHT that the main character, Tiger aka Tig, is a déchet and that she is in hiding. Right after that she saves a little girl —and the hurt shifter with her that she would rather leave for dead—right before the vampires can get their hands on her. That decision changes the quite life she has built for herself and sends her into danger to investigate why children are going missing. Tig as a character really intrigued me. She was bred and programmed to be killer, but she is extremely compassionate and loyal. Every time I thought I knew her, another part of her was revealed.I usually get overwhelmed when there are a ton of different creatures and characters introduced in one book, but I found that Arthur did a great job with THE CITY OF LIGHT. The world building was easy to follow and the introduction to new things were spread out instead of dumped on the reader at once. Arthur described the world really well in every circumstance and made it easy for me to fall right into it.THE CITY OF LIGHT is an urban fantasy, but there is some romance involved. On one side there is Jonas. He hates the déchet with a passion, but he's drawn to Tig and totally resents it. There is a ton of sexual chemistry and tension between the two and you can't help wanting Jonas to get over himself and his prejudice so they can start something. I have high hopes for book two. Then there is an old friend who Tig thought was dead that I don't want to go into too much detail about. Neither has an issue acting on their attraction for each other–which is very strong–, but they are both very different from who they were.THE CITY OF LIGHTS unfortunately ends on a pretty big cliffhanger, which is never fun, but I will definitely be reading more and look forward to WINTER HALO in December 2016.* This book was provided free of charge from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.