"spectacular urban fantasy"
Fifty years ago, Emma Merrigan's mother Eleanor abandoned
her newborn baby and her husband and it is only recently
that they reconciled. Both Emma and Eleanor are hunters,
going into the wasteland to destroy curses and rogues
(giant curses). Eleanor was imprisoned by powerful curses
and upon returning to the mundane world, she could pass as
Emma's daughter. The immortal hunters never age as they
possess the power to appear younger even though Emma
chooses to look her real age of fifty. The two women take a Caribbean cruise hoping to bridge the
breach that exists between them but Emma has a headache
most of the time. She sees a cursed woman on the wait
staff, a person who has seen the atrocities committed in
Serbia. Emma has the ability to plunge through time and
stop a curse before it begins. When she gets off the boat
she does exactly that and finds a young boy without an
adult to take care of him since Emma took away his primary
caretakers in order to end the curse. He is either a hunter
or a rouge but either way he sets up a loop that prevents
Emma from returning to her own time and she must hope that
someone from the mundane world come into the wasteland
looking for her to guide her home. DOWN TIME is an interesting urban fantasy featuring a
heroine who is smart enough to know she doesn't have all
the answers and is savvy enough to listen to people who
have more of them. The wastelands are an interesting place,
a barren dimension with a magnetic sky where curses and
rogues abound. Emma is obsessed with destroying as many as
she can to make the world a better place. Lynn Abbey is a
spectacular urban fantasist. Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 14, 2005
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted January 25, 2007
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