Eye of Heaven

Eye of Heaven (2006) Marjorie M. Liu

After picking up a random Dirk & Steele book when I had accidentally left the house without one, I’ve been picking up the available books in the series as I come across them.

For the most part this is not a fantasy series per se, in that you can start at any point in the series without having read a previous book. That said, there were characters in this book who were written as if you might already be familiar with those characters. It wasn’t a big thing, and it didn’t in any way harm my enjoyment of the book. And as this was an earlier book in the series, I think she has improved upon how she deals with this situation in later books.

Blue is working in Indonesia, searching for a man who traffics in humans, and thinks he has a link when the situation blows up in his face. Things get worse for him when he is called home for his father’s funeral, and ordered to search for his half brothers.

Iris is a shapeshifter who uses her second nature to work in a circus in an act with the big cats. Her mother disappeared several years previously, and Iris has stayed with the group that has in many ways become her surrogate family.

This story was not nearly as strong as other books in the series I have read. It isn’t bad, and like the other books is well written, however, I did see where the plot was heading a couple times, but the story was still interesting, and the romance between the two main characters covered the weakness in the mystery.
Rating: 7/10

Published by Leisure Books

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