When strange attacks erupt within the club drug-trafficking network and draw the attention of the police, Damali realizes these killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires has been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons-predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. Now she is a spoken word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records.
Here is an account of her legend…Īll Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Banks.There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night. (June)įYI: The author has written romances as Leslie Esdaile and TV tie-ins as Leslie E. She's "ripening" as she hits age 21 into a superhuman who emits an aphrodisiacal scent that makes male vampires "go nuts"-they must "choose to kill her or take her." Overheated prose ("massive incisors ripped through her gums like they were giving hideous birth") and a complicated "legend" backstory (a hodgepodge of New Wave, paranormal, astrologic, Judeo-Christian, pseudo-African and mystical mythology) weigh down a story more calculated marketing idea than original literary concept. Nuit's so bad even the Vampire Council wants him gone. He's hooked up with a demon and has created "the Minion" of rogue hybrid-vampires. But they aren't just vampires: master vampire Fallon Nuit uses his recording label as a front for gangsters, drugs and a multinational corporate empire that controls most of the world's economy. When the guardian team faces action, they tend to stand around jive-talking their adrenaline up for pages before they go after the vamps. As if this weren't fantasy enough, Damali is also a "vampire slayer." The entourage of this black "Buffy" is a politically correct rainbow of seven guardians, who disguise their weapons as musical instruments to get through airport security and on to the next gig.
Lovely African-American Damali Richards is a "spoken word" performer with a complement of musicians and technicians in this first of a projected horror trilogy from Banks.
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