jajorgen's review
4.0
I liked this one a lot though it felt incomplete. The mystery of who the dead bodies were wasn't wrapped up - though I'd guess it will be revisited. Lots of action and a smart, snarky heroine.
slferg's review
3.0
Interesting concept that the millenium didn't bring the end of the world, but brought all the werewolves, vampires, etc. out into public. Kim Harrison uses a similar premise in her novels. But Carole Douglas puts a slightly different twist on it. The book was kind of fun and I'll probably read more of the series. Douglas also writes the Midnight Louie mysteries and another series I want to try, which is the Irene Adler one. Love her pet Quicksilver.
Delilah Street was raised in an orphanage, never adopted altho people thought she was a pretty child. She remembers the Milennium change-over that brought out the werewolves, vampires and other supernatural beings into the open, out in public. She had a certain fascination with those and learned to defend herself from those in the orphanage that were attracted to her looks. The orphanage sent her to high school and a "benefactor" paid her college tuition although she had to earn her own money to live on. She haunted estate sales and bought second-hand clothing, furniture and dishes. She loved the old-fashioned stuff and continued to buy it after she got a job. Delilah was a television news reporter on paranormal or supernatural events or occurrences. She had begun to date the evening news anchor, a vampire, but broke it up when he sneaked an exacto blade into flowers and caused her to cut her finger and sucked the blood. Her little lhaso, Achilles, bit him and died of blood poisoning a day or two later. Then the anchor got it on with the weather witch, who took over Delilah's job and destroyed her house with a tornado. But she had seen someone who looked exactly like her on one of the CSI V episodes. So she goes to Las Vegas to check out who this person is. She goes to the park across from the offices of the production company and runs into a man who tries to show her how to dowse, only he dowses for the dead and showing her how leads them onto a grave with a young couple inside and she is overwhelmed by the feelings of the dead. She later wanders over to the area where the shelter is trying to get animals adopted and finds a huge gray dog with blue eyes. She falls for him and adopts him. She names him Quicksilver, calling him Quick. This adoptions was fortunate for her because Quick is a werehunter, part wolf. He adores her and protects her from all the half-weres and others living in Las Vegas. But Delilah and Ric are determined to find out who the young couple are and what happened to them. Delilah has problems because not only does the woman who was the "body" on the show look just like her, but she was immensely popular and people think its her and keep trying to kidnap her. Delilah is also determined to find this other woman - perhaps she is a twin, too? Delilah was found on a street corner, which is where she received her name.
Delilah Street was raised in an orphanage, never adopted altho people thought she was a pretty child. She remembers the Milennium change-over that brought out the werewolves, vampires and other supernatural beings into the open, out in public. She had a certain fascination with those and learned to defend herself from those in the orphanage that were attracted to her looks. The orphanage sent her to high school and a "benefactor" paid her college tuition although she had to earn her own money to live on. She haunted estate sales and bought second-hand clothing, furniture and dishes. She loved the old-fashioned stuff and continued to buy it after she got a job. Delilah was a television news reporter on paranormal or supernatural events or occurrences. She had begun to date the evening news anchor, a vampire, but broke it up when he sneaked an exacto blade into flowers and caused her to cut her finger and sucked the blood. Her little lhaso, Achilles, bit him and died of blood poisoning a day or two later. Then the anchor got it on with the weather witch, who took over Delilah's job and destroyed her house with a tornado. But she had seen someone who looked exactly like her on one of the CSI V episodes. So she goes to Las Vegas to check out who this person is. She goes to the park across from the offices of the production company and runs into a man who tries to show her how to dowse, only he dowses for the dead and showing her how leads them onto a grave with a young couple inside and she is overwhelmed by the feelings of the dead. She later wanders over to the area where the shelter is trying to get animals adopted and finds a huge gray dog with blue eyes. She falls for him and adopts him. She names him Quicksilver, calling him Quick. This adoptions was fortunate for her because Quick is a werehunter, part wolf. He adores her and protects her from all the half-weres and others living in Las Vegas. But Delilah and Ric are determined to find out who the young couple are and what happened to them. Delilah has problems because not only does the woman who was the "body" on the show look just like her, but she was immensely popular and people think its her and keep trying to kidnap her. Delilah is also determined to find this other woman - perhaps she is a twin, too? Delilah was found on a street corner, which is where she received her name.
bookstuff's review
2.0
The premise was interesting but the narrative voice kept me from being fully immersed. Delilah Street narrates like a cross between an old time Chicago PI and cocktail-happy Milagro from [b:Happy Hour at Casa Dracula|33536|Happy Hour at Casa Dracula|Marta Acosta|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168448146s/33536.jpg|33599], But where Milagro charms, Delilah mostly annoys.
slc333's review
2.0
I am not quite sure how to rate the books in this series. I enjoy them and I love Ric and Deliah together but I find the writing and story somewhat disjointed in places and am often left wondering what the heck is going on with the story. I think the problem is that nothing seems to be resolved in the individual books. Kind like the XFiles TV series in that there might be 15 questions raised per book but only one answer given. Would probably give it 2.5 stars.
herdamself's review
3.0
Picked up from a secondhand furniture store in Wellington for $3.
I liked it. I'd read the next in the series. A pity about the cover.
I liked it. I'd read the next in the series. A pity about the cover.
vkemp's review
3.0
Delilah Street is a TV reporter in Kansas. Raised as an orphan, she knows nothing about her past. She loves being on TV and digging up the best stories on the air. It's 2013 and during the Millennium Turn of 2000, the supernatural came out to tell the world they existed. After viewing an episode of CSI 13: Las Vegas, featuring a corpse that could be her doppelganger, Delilah heads to Sin City to find out who she is. She adopts a dog who may be more than a mere dog; she meets Ric Montoya, former FBI agent who is more than he seems; she meets Horace Nightwine, the CSI producer who uses live people for his corpses and she discovers Las Vegas is run by werewolves and vampire (which explains many odd things). Delilah, it turns out, is a medium, able to re-imagine murders whenever she is in the vicinity of a violent act and she is also able to travel through mirrors, a useful skill for someone who wants to become a private investigator. There are two more in this series and I will be reading them.
prationality's review
3.0
Okay let me be fair here--the first...9 chapters are like listening to someone monologue their life. Its a bit repetitive, somewhat awkward and stiff, but interesting enough. Around Chapter 10 however, when Delilah lands herself in Las Vegas (for various reasons), it starts getting more interesting. We have much more interaction with people other then herself, the blossoming of her paranormal skills and heck its Las Vegas. That's interesting for me.
Unfortunately the narrative remains scattered and the plot keeps swerving back and forth. A lot is left to obvious plot devices to keep the 'action' moving and I swear to god if she had mentioned that she was vampire bait one more time I would have ax'ed her right then and there. In the span of one chapter she says it no less then six times, all variations on 'I have pale skin, black hair and vampires find me simply irresistible'. Well bully for you, but don't keep slapping us in the face with it.
What sucks though is I really like this premise, Delilah isn't so bad so long as she keeps her vampire bait comments to herself and the world itself is intriguing (if a little aimless). I came into the Delilah Street novels because of the short story from the anthology Unusual Suspects in which Delilah solves a CineSim 'murder'. That was so much fun! I'm starting to wonder though if perhaps the stories are better left as short fiction. Less cluttering of the narrative, less repetitious information. I mean I was a interested in the back story between the characters from the SS, but Carole managed to get the feel of the character across in way less space.
I am still intrigued by the set up and world, and thankfully I have book 2 awaiting me, but I'll have to think about wanting to read Book 3 (due out in the fall) if Book 2 doesn't pick up things and give it a firmer course.
Unfortunately the narrative remains scattered and the plot keeps swerving back and forth. A lot is left to obvious plot devices to keep the 'action' moving and I swear to god if she had mentioned that she was vampire bait one more time I would have ax'ed her right then and there. In the span of one chapter she says it no less then six times, all variations on 'I have pale skin, black hair and vampires find me simply irresistible'. Well bully for you, but don't keep slapping us in the face with it.
What sucks though is I really like this premise, Delilah isn't so bad so long as she keeps her vampire bait comments to herself and the world itself is intriguing (if a little aimless). I came into the Delilah Street novels because of the short story from the anthology Unusual Suspects in which Delilah solves a CineSim 'murder'. That was so much fun! I'm starting to wonder though if perhaps the stories are better left as short fiction. Less cluttering of the narrative, less repetitious information. I mean I was a interested in the back story between the characters from the SS, but Carole managed to get the feel of the character across in way less space.
I am still intrigued by the set up and world, and thankfully I have book 2 awaiting me, but I'll have to think about wanting to read Book 3 (due out in the fall) if Book 2 doesn't pick up things and give it a firmer course.