Author: Mercedes Lackey
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion, 2015
Pages: 374 p.
Source: VOYA
Compensation: None
Read: July 2015
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| Mercedes Lackey's Hunter |
Joy has been hunting monsters ever since she was a young child. In her
remote isolated village, hunting monsters is a normal activity and everyone is
expected to contribute to the cause. Regular citizens handle the less dangerous
types (like gnomes), while those with magic—like Joy and her fellow
Hunters—protect them from the bigger sinister Othersiders like dragons. When
Joy is summoned to Apex City to protect the most important people in this
post-apocalyptic society, she is baffled by the way they live. Citizens feel
safe behind magical barriers and view Hunters as entertainment, watching their
every movement on reality TV channels. Joy quickly realizes that this sense of
security is just an illusion as more and more Othersiders break through the
barriers.
Lackey does a good job of setting up the conflict between the
traditional monster-hunting Joy and the vain reality star Hunters of Apex City.
There are brief scenes between Joy and the most dangerous of the Othersiders,
the Mages, that hint at a much larger story to come in the following books of
the series. Fans of Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games series who like a little
more magic and fantasy with their dystopia will appreciate this new series.
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