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    Black City Demon

    By Richard A. Knaak

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    Since he became the guardian of the Gate between our world and Feirie sixteen hundred years ago, Nick Medea, once Saint George, has battled to keep the darkest Feirie--the Wyld--from invading the mortal plane. With the dragon an unwilling part of him, Nick maintains balance between realms, often at great cost to him and those nearest to him. Nick and his ragtag confederates--including the shape-shifter Fetch and Nick's reincarnated love, Claryce--have battled the Wyld, but mortals as sinister as the darkest Feirie. Now, with Prohibition in full swing and bootlegger wars embattling Chicago, a murderous evil born of the mortal world has turned its attention to the power of the Gate...and Nick himself. Nick must turn again to his most untrustworthy ally: the dragon within. Yet even together they may not be enough to face what was once a man...but is now a creature even dragons may fear. From the Trade Paperback edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPyr
    Release dateMar 14, 2017
    ISBN9781633882768
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    Richard A. Knaak

    Richard A. Knaak is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of The Legend of Huma, World of Warcraft: Wolfheart, and nearly fifty other novels and numerous short stories, including “Black City Saint” and works in such series as Warcraft, Diablo, Dragonlance, Age of Conan, and his own Dragonrealm. He has scripted a number of Warcraft manga with Tokyopop, such as the top-selling Sunwell trilogy, and has also written background material for games. His works have been published worldwide in many languages. His most recent releases include Shade—a brand-new Dragonrealm novel featuring the tragic sorcerer—Dawn of the Aspects—the latest in the bestselling World of Warcraft series, and the fourth collection in his Legends of the Dragonrealm series. He is presently at work on several other projects.

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    • 4/5
      Nick Medea, is also known as St. George, yes, THE St. George, who slayed the dragon. And he has been having to live down that decision every day for the last 16 centuries. When Nick slayed the dragon, 16 centuries ago, he didn’t know what he was doing, and certainly didn’t know what the dragon was actually doing. But he did find out afterward. The dragon guarded the gateway between the human world and the world of the faerie. And somehow the two were blended together, leaving Nick the immortal guardian of the gateway, with the sentient dragon living in his head. One of the bonuses, is that he can use the dragons features to help him in his duties. Such as the dragons vision, or hearing, or healing ability. He can also shapeshift into the dragon, either in part in or in full. However, while the dragon keeps Nick alive, as it continues his own existence, it wants to be free of Nick, or at least be the one in control. So Nick has to be careful how much he depends on the dragon and to remember to never trust it more than necessary.The gateway is currently in Chicago, or more accurately just off shore in Lake Michigan. It is during prohibition and the gangs are running wild. And strange and violent murders are happening, some of the bodies are also a little ‘off’ even with the mutilation. Nick is asked to look at one and sees it’s a high born faerie, and as powerful as they are, someone was able to vivisect this one.Turns out a horror from Chicago’s past, has come back to haunt the great city, and plans on taking it over. It also has plans for the land of faerie behind the gate, plans the fae don’t want to see come to fruition. It’s Nick’s job to make sure the evil is put down, once and for all. I enjoyed this book quite a bit and I do plan on finding the first one, Black City Saint, and read that one as well. This falls very neatly into dark/urban fantasy genre and I do tend to enjoy them a lot. This one was done pretty well, and did feel like a decent prohibition Chicago as well. I found it to be a fun use of different well known myths and legends and they were merged well.