Genre: Fantasy/Romance/Mystery/Adventure/Mythology
Description:
“Lost to the clutches of her grief of losing her mentor, Saskia Dorn
welcomes the opportunity to take down a warehouse of drug dealers. When their
leader makes a break for it, Saskia and her ex-boyfriend, Sedge, chase the
criminal shifter into the sea off the coast of northwestern Alaska. Not only do
they lose their quarry, but a vicious sea hag snatches Sedge.
Saskia can’t take another loss and attempts to bargain for Sedge’s
life and the salmon totem the witch has trapped in her cave. The sea hag wants
only one thing: her long lost love. Who is dead. And living under the freaking
ocean with the Salmon People. Find the Salmon People and return with the
witch’s love before Sedge’s life is forfeit. Simple, right? Yet she can’t leave
the Salmon People’s land without finding herself first.”
Author:
“Christine Rains is a writer, blogger, and geek mom. She's married to
her best friend and fellow geek living in south-central Indiana. They have one
son who is too smart for his parents' own good and loves to pretend he's
Batman. Christine has four degrees which help nothing with motherhood, but make
her a great Jeopardy player. When she's not reading or writing, she's going on
adventures with her son or watching cheesy movies on Syfy Channel.
She's a member of Untethered Realms and S.C.I.F.I. (South Central
Indiana Fiction Interface). She has several short stories and novellas
published. She's had two firsts in 2015. Early in the year, she put out her
first urban fantasy novel, Of Blood and Sorrow. She also had a hilarious and
steamy series, Dice & Debauchery, published by Ellora's Cave. It's erotic
romance for geeks written by a geek.”
For more, check out her Facebook page.
Appraisal:
This novella starts with a raid on a drug lord’s warehouse on the
northwestern coast of Alaska. Saskia is a fierce warrior and relishes the
fight, taking out her anger on the humans working in the warehouse. When the
shifter kingpin shows up Sedge and Saskia give chase across the ocean.
Meanwhile, a vicious sea hag with men issues hears Saskia’s thoughts of
aggravation with Sedge and snatches him away. Now Saskia is in a race against
time to free Sedge from her clutches.
I enjoyed the way Ms. Rains wove the Inuit mythology of the Salmon
People into this tale. True to the myths of other Native American stories the
themes are circular and the seeker has to find the way according to their own
situation. Deep Current is Saskia’s story of facing her own truths. She has to
take a long hard look at herself and her own fears about what’s holding her
back from Sedge. He’s made it clear he’s not going anywhere, and Saskia has to
trust him enough to be honest with him and herself. But first she has to save
Sedge from the sea hag who has stolen his bear aspect and he can’t survive
without his bear magic in the harsh elements under the icy sea in his human
form.
Deep Current is full of action, heart, and soul. It is nice to finally
understand what Saskia has dealt with in her past that closed her off. It’s
going to be interesting to see if she loses any of her fiery personality.
Though I don’t expect this new perspective to affect Saskia’s hardcore fighting
spirit to protect the shifter world. However, I do hope to see glimpses of her
softer, more accepting side more often now.
If you haven’t started reading the Totem series of novellas, I highly
recommend them. Each novella comes to a satisfactory ending, however, the
mission to reunite the totem tokens is still incomplete. And as far as I know
Totem #7, #8, and #9 release dates are yet to be determined.
Buy now
from: Amazon US Amazon UK
FYI:
Contains adult language with several F-bombs. Deep Current is the
sixth book in the Totem series. This series of novellas build on each other and
should be read in order.
Original review published April 28, 2017
Format/Typo
Issues:
No proofing or formatting issues.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: ?wazithinkin
Approximate word count: 25-30,000 words
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