Hunter

Mercedes Lackey (Editor)

Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, and it's taken centuries to bring back civilization in the wake of the catastrophe. Now, the luckiest Cits live in enclosed communities,behind walls that keep them safe from the hideous creatures fighting to break through. Others are not so lucky.

• ISBN10: 1484725433
• ISBN13: 9781484725436
• Publish Date: 31 July 2017 (first published 15 October 2015)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Hyperion
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

worldbuilding makes for a slow start When you've read a lot of Mercedes Lackey you know some of the things to expect, an orphan, with secrets, and power. They find romance but it's not going to be easy and there are corrupt officials. This book has a lot of setup for the world and some geeky clothing details.
We first meet Joyeaux Charmand who is travelling to the city by train when it's attacked by beings from the otherworld. The barrier between our world and the otherworld has been damaged and now creatures from that otherworld attack. Hunters defend humanity from these creatures and Joyeaux is a Hunter. Citizens or Cits live in enclosed communities and watch reality TV with hunters beating the creatures; however things are not all how they seem and she has to try to fight those who would keep the status quo without examing patterns or problems.
Joy has some help in her uncle and his assistant who is a psychic and with whom romance begins to blossom.
It's pretty typical Mercedes Lackey, set in a more modern setting with TV and modern weapons rather than pre-industrial as usual. I found it very entertaining and I'm looking forward to reading book 2.

[pamela]

An unfortunate rehash of every generic dystopian YA novel that has gone before, Mercedes Lackey's 'Hunter' was another book I unfortunately didn't get more than 25% of the way through. The protagonist so far is a generic teenaged special dystopian flower with no personality but some cool magic dogs, and rather than world building Lackey instead chose to inundate the reader with a ton of info just to show how same, same but different this world is to ours. To top this off, Lackey indulges in my pet sci-fi peeve. Real world words are used, but changed slightly to give it a 'quirky', futuristic feel. Videos are now vids, hot chocolate is now Chocolike, city dwellers are now Cits (although somehow a train is still a train and a pig is still a pig?) and the second Lackey called Vegetarians Vaygans I put the book down. I'd had enough. Everything about this book was lazy, and quite frankly, I have better things to do with my time.