• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Jaye Wells Website
• List Price: $7.99 US/$9.99 CDN
• Publisher: Orbit; 1 edition (March 30, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031603780X
• ISBN-13: 978-0316037808

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Sabina Kane doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to family. After all, her own grandmother, the leader of the vampire race, just tried to kill her. When she arrives in New York to meet the mage side of her family, the reunion takes the fun out of dysfunctional.

On top of that, the Hekate Council wants to use her as a pawn in the brewing war against the vampires. Her mission will take her into the bowels of New York’s Black Light district, entangles her in mage politics, and challenges her beliefs about the race she was raised to distrust. And Sabina thought vampires were bloodthirsty.

In book two of the Sabina Kane series The Mage In Black, Sabina meets her twin sister Maisie who is the leader of the mages after just finding out about Maisie’s existence. Sabina has left her “family” in LA after finding out her grandmother (the ruler of the vampire race) has been draining mage blood to help the vampires retain some of the mage powers so they could go to war against them. Sabina isn’t very trusting of anyone since finding out about the schemes her grandmother has underway, so it’s hard for her to come to terms with the twin she had no idea existed thanks to her grandmother hiding the fact.

Someone is also out to kill Sabina & someone very close to her after finding out Sabina may be the person to unite all the Dark Races. Giguhl, Sabina’s demon buddy, has been roped into the Demon Fight Club (snort), as if  Sabina doesn’t have enough problems already she finds out the man behind the DFC – The Shade, is actually her former partner & someone she slept with. Then we have Adam, the mage who’s helping Sabina with her magic and someone Sabina is trying to deny her feelings for. Look what happend to her parents, Vampires & Mages just shouldn’t mix…or should they?

Jaye Wells is a master at Urban Fantasy, not even 3 pages into The Mage In Black and there’s a huge fight scene! That sets the pace for the rest of the book, which is non-stop action, humor,  mystery & a little bit of spicy romance rolled into one. This is one book that I have been waiting for and it did not disappoint, I read it well into the middle of the night and picked it up as soon as my eyes cracked open in the morning.

Not only is it fast paced, there is snark…what more can you ask for? There were times that snorts actually escaped my mouth and I found myself laughing out loud. That’s what I love about Jaye Wells writing, the plot lines are amazing and intense, but she can throw in some good snark! Of course we still have everyone’s favorite shopping channel addicted demon, Giguhl who’s now fighting like a UFC fighter. Giguhl even gets a little romance of his own, and she’s a demon to lust after. There is even a cliff-hanger ending of epic proportions…..

The Mage In Black is a great addition to the series and is even better than the first, so much so I did something I never did…I read the excerpt at the back for Green-Eyed Demon. One of my favorite books of the 2010!