Deadly Descendant

Deadly Descendant by Jenna Black is the second book in her Nikki Glass series.

As a living descendant of Artemis the Huntress, private investigator Nikki Glass knows how to track someone down.  But when an Oracle shows up, warning the Descendants about wild dog attacks in Washington, D.C. Nikki is afraid it might be a trap.  The Olympians believe the "dogs" are really jackals controlled by a blood-crazed descendant of the Egyptian death-god Anubis.  Whatever...If Nikki hopes to muzzel Dogboy, she's got to catch him in the act. But when she stakes out a local cemetery, she ends up face-to-snout with a snarling pack of shadow-jackals whose bite is worse than their bark.  These hellhounds are deadly-- even for an immortal like Nikki.  "Dog" spelled backward my be "god," but that won't stop Nikki from teaching these old gods some new tricks. Like playing dead.

The Breakdown:
1.  In this book Black gets deeper into the world of the Descendants, and she really shows that the Olympians are a cruel lot.  I like that she continues to explore the powers of the Descendants in this book, and even show that older ones don't know everything about their power.

2. I am a fan of this budding relationship between Nikki and Jamaal.  Despite their very rough start, I have a feeling they could be good for each other.  Each knows their pain of rejection from a parent, and both have some pretty thick defenses.

3, Speaking of Jamaal. I loved learning about his past.  That poor guy has had quite the life, and it has left some marks on him.

4.  Anderson's wife, Emma, is not only crazy from her ordeal with the Olympians, she is raving bitch.  She is definitely making things more difficult for Nikki to settle into being a Descendant.  Plus what she does at the end is not only horrible to Anderson and Nikki, but I think is going to have some serious effect on the next book.

5. Learned in this book that the virus that causes rabies, the Lyssa virus, is named after the Greek spirit of madness/rage.

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