Angel Town

I didn't know what to expect from this book after being left on edge from the previous. The beginning made me leery, having a total wipe on Kismet's memories, but I'm glad Saintcrow kept her true to her nature. Guns out and bodies dropping, Kismet engages in the final battle for her city. Though at times this book, and others in this series, frustrated me with half created descriptions (most likely left this way to be filled in by the reader's own imagination), Kismet's character kept me reading. Her sarcastic internal monologue and couldn't give a shit attitude makes her a unique heroine. Most I read about have an emotional need to help, or some type of save the world complex, but Kismet has a tough girl attitude and a dark side to her that fits in with the nightside. Sure she starts off fighting to protect her city and loved ones, but you can tell by this book that she just wants to kill the things that go bump in the night and go home. She's done, burnt out. The progression of the series has shown how living a life on the nightside eats away at a person and no one is perfect, not even Kismet who can heal broken bones in the middle of a fight. As the final book about Jill Kismet, almost all of the reader's questions have been answered. The only one that I'm still left with is why Mikhail went to the Sorrows, and I think it is the one question aside from what is Perry that I needed answered. So I'm left a bit frustrated as we still don't know, nor will we ever know. But I guess it's a small price to pay for reading such a fast paced series. I look forward to reading future books from Saintcrow.