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BOOK REVIEWS:
by Jack Hillman
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SACRED GROUND
Mercedes Lackey
TOR Fantasy, Paperback
375 pages, $5.99 - Eight Stars
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(Books are rated on a ten star scale with ten being
the highest. Anything in the seven to ten star range is
a particularly good suggestion for your reading list.)
Jennifer Talldeer was a whiteman's nightmare: a female
Native American with a college degree and a Private Investigator's
license. That is if the white man was someone trying to hide
something. Jennifer was very good at her job: both of them. Because
in addition to being a P.I., she was also something unusual in the
native American community: a female warrior who practiced warrior
medicine.
A lot of her time was spent tracking down stolen Native
American artifacts, stolen either by unscrupulous collectors or
else by foolish tourists that didn't know what they had found.
Sometimes, Jennifer had to return artifacts from burial mounds;
artifacts that held power, the power of Indian medicine men and
their spirits. The spirit world didn't like to be disturbed, and
often gave the possessors of the artifacts nightmares until they
either sold the artifacts or gave them to someone like Jennifer
for return to the earth.
Jennifer gets a call from one of her insurance contacts, a
company she has worked with in the past with great success for
both parties. They figure a case currently under investigation is
perfect for Jennifer: a shopping mall under construction has
unearthed some Native American bones and pottery shards, halting
the project until the site can be evaluated. But before that can
happen, there is an explosion, killing several Native American
workers and destroying some heavy equipment. The owner of the site
claims there has been no threats of sabotage from any native
American group trying to protect the site, but the effects of the
explosion seem to point to the use of something more powerful than
dynamite, suggesting a planned attack.
Jennifer begins to investigate and finds herself in the middle
of a battle between the forces of darkness trying to make an entry
into the real world and the forces of light, trying to protect the
land and it's people.
Mercedes Lackey, long known for her high fantasy Valdemar series,
has once again stepped into a new field of endeavor with a flair.
Her female protagonists are people even men read with interest as
they fight their way through strange and horrific scenes, trying to
preserve the world, or at least their corner of it. Sacred Ground
is the first in a possibly new series, another female private
investigator drawn by Lackey, and promises to be every bit as good
as her other works. Add this to your must read list today.
Happy reading!
Copyright 1996 Jack Hillman, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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John is a freelance writer, who has been published in BLOODREAMS,
ONCE UPON A WORLD, and GATEWAYS. He writes a bimonthly SF/F column
published in THE MAGAZINE of SHAREFICTION, and his book reviews
appear in POPULAR FICTION NEWS. As a contributing editor to ON THE
RISK, he keeps track of "life." Email: jhillwtr@aol.com
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