Friday Memes: Hunter by Mercedes Lackey

Happy Friday everybody!!

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This week I am spotlighting Hunter by Mercedes Lackey. She is beginning a new series. I have read Lackey's books for years and am eager to read this one. Here is the description from Amazon:

They came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up, even in their worst nightmares.

Monsters.

Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, and it's taken centuries to bring back civilization in the wake of the catastrophe. Now, the luckiest Cits live in enclosed communities,behind walls that keep them safe from the hideous creatures fighting to break through. Others are not so lucky.

To Joyeaux Charmand, who has been a Hunter in her tight-knit mountain community since she was a child, every Cit without magic deserves her protection from dangerous Othersiders. Then she is called to Apex City, where the best Hunters are kept to protect the most important people.

Joy soon realizes that the city's powerful leaders care more about luring Cits into a false sense of security than protecting them. More and more monsters are getting through the barriers,and the close calls are becoming too frequent to ignore. Yet the Cits have no sense of how much danger they're in-to them, Joy and her corp of fellow Hunters are just action stars they watch on TV.

When an act of sabotage against Joy takes an unbearable toll, Joy uncovers a terrifying conspiracy in the city. There is something much worse than the usual monsters infiltrating Apex. And it may be too late to stop them

Beginning:

You couldn't see outside the train windows at night; the conductor had opaqued them. Most people probably wouldn't want to see out anyway.

Friday 56:

"Wait, what?" I said bewildered. I thought I knew what a waltz was, but I got the feeling that what I knew and what this was were as different as my old Hunting gear from my new stuff.