Genre: Fantasy/Romance/Mystery/Adventure/Mythology
Description:
“Lost to the clutches of her grief of losing her mentor, Saskia Dorn
welcomes the opportunity to take down a warehouse of drug dealers. When their
leader makes a break for it, Saskia and her ex-boyfriend, Sedge, chase the
criminal shifter into the sea off the coast of northwestern Alaska. Not only do
they lose their quarry, but a vicious sea hag snatches Sedge.
Saskia can’t take another loss and attempts to bargain for Sedge’s
life and the salmon totem the witch has trapped in her cave. The sea hag wants
only one thing: her long lost love. Who is dead. And living under the freaking
ocean with the Salmon People. Find the Salmon People and return with the
witch’s love before Sedge’s life is forfeit. Simple, right? Yet she can’t leave
the Salmon People’s land without finding herself first.”
Author:
“Christine Rains is a writer, blogger, and geek mom. She's married to
her best friend and fellow geek living in south-central Indiana. They have one
son who is too smart for his parents' own good and loves to pretend he's
Batman. Christine has four degrees which help nothing with motherhood, but make
her a great Jeopardy player. When she's not reading or writing, she's going on
adventures with her son or watching cheesy movies on Syfy Channel.
She's a member of Untethered Realms and S.C.I.F.I. (South Central
Indiana Fiction Interface). She has several short stories and novellas
published. She's had two firsts in 2015. Early in the year, she put out her
first urban fantasy novel, Of Blood and
Sorrow. She also had a hilarious and steamy series, Dice & Debauchery, published by Ellora's Cave. It's erotic
romance for geeks written by a geek.”
For more, check out her website or stalk her on Facebook.
Appraisal:
This novella starts with a raid on a drug lord’s warehouse on the
northwestern coast of Alaska. Saskia is a fierce warrior and relishes the fight,
taking out her anger on the humans working in the warehouse. When the shifter
kingpin shows up Sedge and Saskia give chase across the ocean. Meanwhile, a vicious
sea hag with men issues hears Saskia’s thoughts of aggravation with Sedge and
snatches him away. Now Saskia is in a race against time to free Sedge from her
clutches.
I enjoyed the way Ms. Rains wove the Inuit mythology of the Salmon
People into this tale. True to the myths of other Native American stories the
themes are circular and the seeker has to find the way according to their own
situation. Deep Current is Saskia’s
story of facing her own truths. She has to take a long hard look at herself and
her own fears about what’s holding her back from Sedge. He’s made it clear he’s
not going anywhere, and Saskia has to trust him enough to be honest with him
and herself. But first she has to save Sedge from the sea hag who has stolen
his bear aspect and he can’t survive without his bear magic in the harsh
elements under the icy sea in his human form.
Deep
Current is full of action, heart, and soul. It is nice to finally understand
what Saskia has dealt with in her past that closed her off. It’s going to be
interesting to see if she loses any of her fiery personality. Though I don’t expect
this new perspective to affect Saskia’s hardcore fighting spirit to protect the
shifter world. However, I do hope to see glimpses of her softer, more accepting
side more often now.
If you haven’t started reading the Totem series of novellas, I highly
recommend them. Each novella comes to a satisfactory ending, however, the
mission to reunite the totem tokens is still incomplete. And as far as I know Totem
#7, #8, and #9 release dates are yet to be determined.
FYI:
Contains adult language with several F-bombs. Deep Current is the sixth book in the Totem series. This series of
novellas build on each other and should be read in order. Totem #7, #8, and #9
release dates are yet to be determined.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No proofing or formatting issues.
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: ?wazithinkin
Approximate
word count: 25-30,000 words
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