Any Given Doomsday – Cover Spotlight

Mark your calendars: November 4, 2008.

From Amazon.com…

Elizabeth Phoenix once used her unique skills as a psychic to help in the Milwaukee Police Department’s fight against injustice. But when Liz’s foster mother is found viciously murdered—and Liz is discovered unconscious at the scene—her only memory of the crime comes in the form of terrifying dreams…of creatures more horrific than anything Liz has seen in real life. What do these visions mean? And what in the world do they have to do with her former lover, Jimmy Sanducci?

While the police question Jimmy in the murder, Jimmy opens Liz’s eyes to a supernatural war that has raged since the dawn of time in which innocent people are hunted by malevolent beings disguised as humans. Only a chosen few have the ability to fight their evil, and Jimmy believes Liz is among them. Now, with her senses heightened, new feelings are rising within Liz—ones that re-ignite her dangerous attraction to Jimmy. But Jimmy has a secret that will rock Liz to her core…and put the survival of the human race in peril.

Handeland’s writing is a fave of mine. I’ll pull out my often-used descriptor of it: bare bones. By that I mean dry-roasted wit, some of the most descriptive writing with the least amount of words. In other words, it’s lean on fat, high in protein. Oh hell, she just has this really awesome style. There.

I first got the impression months ago that this would be more a mainstream paranormal. Handeland says Urban Fantasy, but that description spells romance. To that I say BOOOYOOOOW!

Don’t you think her abs are saying, Look at me, I’m so fine, buy me, buy me…

I wonder why the series title, The Phoenix Chrnicles has an X through it? Oh wait, silly me *embarrassed giggle* that’s probably a…phoenix.

Book dos, Doomsday Can Wait, comes out May 2009.