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Feb 5th, 2014, 1:55 pm
Siobhan Quinn series [01-03] by Kathleen Tierney
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Overview: Kathleen Rory Tierney, despite her very Irish name, has never once left her home state of Mississippi. She is a five-time recipient of the Howling Poughkeepsie Prize for Fictionalized Biographies of Dubious Reliability. Her haiku have been collected in three volumes — Severed Shrews and Other Perambulations, The Lives and Times of a Russian Entomologist, and I Wrote This While You Were Writing Reviews for Amazon.com. She currently resides in a shotgun shack in Bird in the Hand, Pennsylvania, where she whiles away the time polishing antique sex toys. Red Delicious is her second novel, written shortly after her untimely demise during a stampede of guinea fowl.

(Kathleen Tierney is a psuedonym for Caitlín R. Kiernan, the author of nine novels, including Daughter of Hounds, The Red Tree, and The Drowning Girl. She is a four-time nominee for the World Fantasy Award and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award. ~ephemeral)

Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy

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01. Blood Oranges (February 2013): Meet Siobhan Quinn—Half vampire, half werewolf, and retired monster hunter. Or so she thought...

My name’s Quinn. If you buy into my reputation, I’m the most notorious demon hunter in New England. But rumors of my badassery have been slightly exaggerated. Instead of having kung-fu skills and a closet full of medieval weapons, I’m an ex-junkie with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time. Or the right place at the wrong time. Or…whatever.

Wanted for crimes against inhumanity I (mostly) didn’t commit, I was nearly a midnight snack for a werewolf until I was “saved” by a vampire calling itself the Bride of Quiet. Already cursed by a werewolf bite, the vamp took a pint out of me too.

So now… now, well, you wouldn’t think it could get worse, but you’d be dead wrong.
"The New England setting is colorful and convincing, and Tierney populates it with a weird and splendid set of supernatural beings...[R]eaders are in for a memorably exhilarating and engaging experience." —Kirkus

02. Red Delicious (February 2014): Siobhan Quinn is back and working a new case in the dark and satirical sequel to Blood Oranges.

Half-vampire, half-werewolf Siobhan Quinn survived her initiation into the world of demons and monsters. But staying alive as she becomes entangled in underworld politics might prove to be more difficult.

When the daughter of a prominent necromancer vanishes, it's up to Quinn to find the girl. But her search will land her directly in the middle of a struggle between competing forces searching for an ancient artifact of almost unimaginable power...
"Another wisecracking supernatural horror yarn expressed in what used to be known as splatterpunk mode. Tierney brings new or forgetful readers up to date with a memorably pithy page-and-a-half recap. The ballsy, profane, in-your-face narrator is Siobhan Quinn - don't, whatever you do, call her Siobhan - ex-heroin addict, now both vampire and werewolf. Her employer, the devious human she calls Mean Mr. B, has been hired to locate the missing daughter of a prominent local necromancer. Unfortunately, Mr. B's investigator, Shaker Lashly, has also gone missing and soon turns up with bullet holes. Quinn's job, then, is to find out what happened to Lashly and locate the missing girl. Naturally, the case turns out to involve something else altogether, namely, a MacGuffin that's actually a transcendentally powerful and valuable dildo. No, that's not a misprint. Three demonic entities desire to possess the item: the infernal brothel-keeper Drusneth, the succubus Yeksabet Harpootlian, and Magdalena Szabo, a demoness from an alternate world who may or may not even exist--all of whom will stop at nothing to acquire it. Not only must Quinn survive the attentions of these three formidable females, but also the determined assaults of defrocked priest Father Burt Rizzo, whose self-appointed mission is to rid New Providence of its supernatural badasses. Another defiantly over-the-top yarn that breaks every rule in the book, mostly with advance warning, and succeeds by being even more flagrantly disgraceful than its predecessor." ~Kirkus

03. Cherry Bomb (February 2015): Three years have passed since Quinn turned her back on Providence, Rhode Island's seedy supernatural underbelly, walking out on Mr. B. and taking a bus headed anywhere. She hoped her escape would give her some peace from the endless parade of horrors. But a dead girl who quarrels with the moon can't catch a break, and, on the streets of Manhattan, Quinn finds herself caught between a rock and a hard place. Again.

What do you do when you're stuck in the middle of a three-million-year-old grudge match between the ghouls and the djinn, accidentally in possession of a hellish artifact that could turn the tide of the war, all the while being hunted by depraved half-ghoul twins intent on taking the object and ushering in a terrifying Dark Age? Especially when you've fallen in love with the woman who got you into this mess—and you ain't nobody's hero...
"Quinn, half-werewolf, half-vampire, and retired demon hunter has left Providence, RI, and the employ of Mean Mister B to hide out in New York. She's been a kept woman for a while, living with (and drinking from) an accountant with a BDSM predilection. Her sugar momma can't compete with the dangerous mystery that is Selwyn, a thief and a liar whose troubles quickly become Quinn's problem. VERDICT Violence, sex, copious swearing, and gore mean this is not a series (Blood Oranges; Red Delicious) for tender sensibilities. Tierney brings her usual talent to even the most earthy and splattery bits here, and if you don't mind a lot of breaking of the fourth wall for her heroine to address the reader, these books might be just the ticket for a jaded urban fantasy palate." ~Library Journal

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