Tanya Huff, Smoke and ... series

These are spin-offs from her Blood series (see earlier entry), which are urban horror/fantasy set in Toronto and feature the vampire bastard son of Henry VIIIth and ex-cop PI who’s going blind teaming up to fight crime, a combination which induces a certain amount of eye-rolling in this particular readership segment. The Smoke series follows Tony, who’s a street kid in the first Blood book (the only one I’ve read) and ends up in a relationship with the vampire bastard (bastard vampire? Where’s my list of adjectival order when I need it?) sometime later. He’s broken it off by the time this starts, which is the first thing that got me interested – it’s presented as your standard very intensive blood feeding/dominance thing, and it’s all too common for that to be the ideal vampire books strive for. Tony, however, has obviously found this a little too overwhelming and claustrophobic (yes, yes, projecting, I know), and has moved on, albeit with regrets. Instead, he works as a production assistant on Canada’s highest rating syndicated vampire detective show...

( Smoke and Shadows. )

( Smoke and Mirrors. )

( Smoke and Ashes. )

Apparently there won’t be any more of these unless sales suddenly pick up, which I think is a shame. What I’d like would more ones about Tony, on the small-scale horror level, with no overwhelming demons or transdimensional portals (and ideally no vampires, but Henry as a walk-on's fine), but that is apparently not what the market wants.

My first meme.

Blame it on tacithydra. However, you can blame me if my attempt to incorporate the text completely fails. What it should show, however, is that I am a massive force for disruption, so really it shouldn't work anyway...

You are The Tower

Ambition, fighting, war, courage. Destruction, danger, fall, ruin.

The Tower represents war, destruction, but also spiritual renewal. Plans are disrupted. Your views and ideas will change as a result.

The Tower is a card about war, a war between the structures of lies and the lightning flash of truth. The Tower stands for "false concepts and institutions that we take for real." You have been shaken up; blinded by a shocking revelation. It sometimes takes that to see a truth that one refuses to see. Or to bring down beliefs that are so well constructed. What's most important to remember is that the tearing down of this structure, however painful, makes room for something new to be built.

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