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Half-sylph Lyris is yet another Kennedy assassination investigator, but what she uncovers is stranger than anything a conspiracy theorist could ever imagine. Were the goblins really behind it all? The only way to find out is to travel to New Orleans. There she rendezvous with fellow fey Romeo Hart to discover the truth, and they find more danger than old plots against presidents. In the bayou lie threats to humankind and feykind alike, and threats to their guarded hearts. Jackson returns to the alternate reality she created earlier in works, including Traveler [BKL S 15 03], which calls upon more fairy tale lore than most remember exists. This dark paranormal is focused as much on the chase as on the romance, and it's easy to see why Lyris, in spite of herself, falls for the aptly named Romeo. Nina Davis
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Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Love Spell (March 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0505525763
  • ISBN-13: 978-0505525765
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #828,901 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, March 24, 2004
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Goblins are dangerous enough, but what if one of them could make vampiric goblins? That is a chilling reality in the Wildside world where magic reigns supreme and often secretly. The vampire goblin, Quede, comes to Lyris' attention when she investigates the murder of JFK. She can at last prove that goblins killed the president and replaced the vice president with one of their own. Bringing down Quede will force her to work with Romeo Hart, the charming half Pooka with no fear of death who is her partner.

New Orleans is exotic and dangerous in any novel, but in the Wildside, it becomes doubly so. Racing to stop a plague that could destroy humanity, Romeo and Lyris will risk their lives, and fall in love.

***** Watch out Anita Blake, the goblins are gaining ground! With every entry in this series, it becomes more fascinating and new depth is added. Characters are a unique shade of grey, not totally good or evil, in many cases. Passion and magic crackle from the pages. You will look forward to the next book, but each one stand alone so well that you are not left hanging between volumes. *****

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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hope, but then a disappointment, April 4, 2004
By Malek (Lutin Empire) - See all my reviews
For a brief moment there, I actually thought Ms. Jackson had seen the error of her ways and come around to a rational point of view. In the middle of this book when she let the goblin priest Lobineau tell in his own words the struggle with prejudice our kind has faced, she actually brought tears to my eyes.

Unfortunately, Ms. Jackson was soon back to her usual misrepresentations. Particularly unfortunate was her biased portrayal of that savvy and tough-minded businessman Quede. Vampire orchids, forsooth! And what if a few humans do die? They breed like flies, anyway.

Even more serious is her totally glossing over the crimes of her so-called heroine sylph--the trespass, destruction of property, and even murder.

And to justify all this Ms. Jackson trots out those tired old accusations of conspiracy, infection of your political processes, and unfair business practices. Since when is eating the competition unfair?

Oh, of course it's well written, the sex scenes are hot, and the action scenes are exciting. *YAWN* Ms. Jackson, when will you see past the superficial technique of writing and acknowledge that your books are flawed by your inherent prejudices?

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars It's a good story, but I've heard it before, May 1, 2006
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By the time I read The Courier, the third book in the "Wildside" series, I'd figured out the formula. There's a heroine who is uncomfortable with her supernatural abilities (or at least untrained). There's a hero who is a total player and unwilling to commit, and he is both comfortable and trained to use his supernatural abilities, and luckily enough, he suspects that the heroine may be his "mate" which counteracts all of his deeply ingrained sowing-his-wild-oats habits. The heroine is always wary of the hero, finding it impossible to resist him but fearing that he will simply take advantage of her and run.

And then there are the goblins. There's always a new city to destroy - and to give Jackson credit, she always re-imagines her cities - in this case New Orleans - in a creative way, and she gives a real sense of place, lots of good, evocative description of the environment. There's always a Big Baddie to defeat. And not much is left of the city by the end.

I think that "The Courier" was well-plotted; I felt like in Traveler and in Outsiders the hero & heroine had it a little too easy, but in The Courier Lyris and Roman/Romeo have to struggle for their victory and suffer pretty serious setbacks on the way to a happy ending.

I admit that I never found Roman/Romeo particularly appealing - he is very tall and very skinny - and this might have been part of the reason why I didn't totally love this book.
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