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| Night Shift (Jill Kismet Novels) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lilith Saintcrow
Publisher: Orbit
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 29234
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0316001783
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780316001786
ASIN: 0316001783
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
Not everyone can take on the things that go bump in the night.
Not everyone tries.
But Jill Kismet is not just anyone.
She's a Hunter, trained by the best - and in over her head.
Welcome to the night shift...
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 Nothing new here June 30, 2008
15 out of 23 found this review helpful
I usually love Lilith Saintcrow's books, The circle Lightfall series, and the first three of the Dante Valentine books, but this one is just a rehash of so many other books out there. I did not like the heroine, there is no romance to speak of and the plot is very minor and subject to the action. There is alot of action but it is so dark it truly turned me off. Dante Valentine had some redeeming characteristics, I truly don't know where this character was going. It seems the author has invented her own nightside.
Jill Kismet is a former prostitute who finally murders her pimp. While leaving the murder scene she is caught up by the hunter for Santa Luz. Mikhail is a hunter who polices the hellbreed. He also polices the people who try to form deals with the demons. They are called Traders because they trade something to hell for whatever they want. For some reason he takes her for his student. Since she is not strong enough to really become a hunter, he convinces her to Trade with the strongest hellbreed in town. (I found that particuliar unbelievable, that he would go against the things he has upheld for his respected career.) Anyway he has been killed by a demon six months previously.
Pericles aka Perry is the strongest hellbreed in town and he is the head of the criminal faction. He trades strength to her for an hour of her time every month. ( seemed like she traded one kind of servitude for another). Hellbreed look and act human but their outsides are like shells with black ichor inside.
Saul is a were cougar who has come to town with another were couple to hunt the rogue were. He winds up staying with her at her warehouse home.
From the first time she scents the killer of four cops, I knew she was looking for a were and a hellbreed, because the story had already said that they hated each other. The search for the rogues has plenty of action with Jill throwing her weight, power, and mouth around. She single-handedly goes in a bar and kills every hellbreed there. When Saul asks how many, she says she quit counting at twenty. She doesn't even sleep she is always out doing her job. Which seems to consist of busting heads and crushing shells.
She finally meets her match when the hellbreed who runs NY comes to town. Perry must intervene to keep her alive. She learns that the hellbreed with the rogue is the bad dude's daughter. There was one part that I liked and that has to do with the daughter of Arkady.
But this is really only a so-so read. Three stars is all I can give it and I definitely will not be buying the next one until I see some reviews. If you are desperate for something to read it will do but it is so much like a rehash of Dante Valentine and several other books out there that I personally did not find it any more than passable.
 Wonderful new series! June 24, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Lilith Saintcrow has crafted another hit series with the debut of Night Shift.
Determined, yet slightly vulnerable, hellspawn hunter Jill Kismet, works with Were-cat FBI agents to hunt a rogue Were and the hellspawn that is involved in several gruesome murders.
Saintcrow crafts depth in her heroine showing her to be a damaged, but determined woman who keeps going and going long after anyone else would have given up. Kismet's personality quirk provides comic relief as she flings bad jokes and puns with a "Get it? Arf, arf," after each one. The protagonist is instantly sympathetic through Saintcrow's smooth use of flashbacks providing the back-story necessary to understand how Kismet became a hunter.
Interesting characters are peppered throughout the story allowing Saintcrow a colorful palette of people from which to choose to focus on as the series continues. Dominic and Harper, two Were-FBI friends, bring Saul, hunky country Were, when they journey to St. Luz to investigate the murderous rampage. Through flashbacks, Kismet's deceased teacher, Mikhail Tolstoi is introduced. The reader also meets Pericles (hellspawn Kismet is indebted to), Galina (the local Sanctuary leader), a plethora of human police and forensic agents, as well as exorcists Avery, Eva, Benito, and Wallace.
Lyrical language and movie-worthy fight scenes are staples in Saintcrow's novels, and this one is no exception. In Night Shift, Saincrow's usual beautiful language is complemented with almost Chandleresque noir phrases: "No matter how tired I am, dusk always wakes me up like six shots of espresso and a bullet whizzing past" (47). Her fight scenes contain blood spatters that hang in the air and a billowing coat that snap out parachute-like when Kismet jumps from roofs. The scenes are so well painted it is like reading a graphic novel.
If Night Shift is any indication of the quality of the remainder of the series, Jill Kismet just may supersede Dante Valentine as Saintcrow's greatest heroine.
The second novel in the series, Hunter's Prayer, also an Orbit release, will be available August 26, 2008.
 Different but similar to Dante Valentine series July 14, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Jill Kismet is a Hunter with a Hellbreed mark. She is a former prostitute pulled from the streets by her deceased mentor and lover Mikhail. She polices the Nightside, fighting demons that cross over from Hell. In this new series by Lilith Saintcrow we have many similarities to Dante (Danny) Valentine. Jill has a mark same as Danny. She uses a whip instead of sword. Her silver charms in her hair tinkle and the ruby at her throat sparks whenever danger approaches, much like the sparking tattoo on Danny' face. However, I found this book much easier to read. Jill is tough like Danny and not quite human. She meets Saul who is a were cougar and works with the FBI. Saul is helping track a rogue were. A were is needed to track rogues but are not good against hellbreed. A hunter tracks hellbreed but are not good up against rogues. Overall, I found the story to be very entertaining. It had non-stop action and a little romance. Hopefully, this romance won't go the same way Danny and Japh went. The next book is in my wish list. I liked this new series very much and if you liked the Dante Valentine series I think you will like this one also.
Nearly perfect June 26, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Working for the Devil was perfect; that's the only reason I know Night Shift isn't perfection.
Read it, love it, put it on the keeper shelf. While yes, Dante & Jill are the same type; they are not the same character. I see where Saintcrow can take Jill to new places.
I spread the gospel of Saintcrow everywhere I can. I see Hamilton's Blood Noir in hardcover and on bestseller lists and I weep!! How?! If life were fair, and we all know that it is not, Night Shift would be sitting on the bestseller lists and we all would be better off for it.
great book! July 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I picked Night Shift up because I really enjoyed Lilith Saintcrow's Dante Valentine series. It took me about fifty pages to really get into this new book but once I was in I was hooked and it was really worth it. At first I wasn't sure how I felt about the story's main character Jill Kismet, but she really started to grow on me. As her story and past unfolded I really started to like her. I enjoyed seeing her strengths as well as her weaknesses exposed as the book progressed. I also quite enjoyed Saul as a character and hope to see more of him in the next book.
The story is very fast paced and the world setting is very dark and gritty. I found it all very enjoyable and interesting and I am looking forward to the next book already. If you like dark urban fantasy this is a great book for you.
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