Working for the Devil (Dante Valentine, #1)

by Lilith Saintcrow

Dante Valentine's working relationship with the Devil began on a rainy Monday. Dante's a licensed Necromance, one of the best ever to survive training, and she's got an emerald embedded in her forehead to prove it. That's why the Devil sends his minion to hire Dante to kill Vardimal Santino, a fugitive demon. As Dante points out, Necromances don't kill people, they bring them back; or at least their ghosts. But turning down Lucifer isn't something you do if you want to stay alive, and besides, it turns out she's got a score to settle with Santino. Desperate to track down an enemy she can't find, Dante is bonded with a demon familiar she doesn't trust and a small band of psychics who seem almost as determined to help her as she is to refuse their help. The thing is, Dante doesn't need friends, she needs a miracle. Because the first time Dante Valentine met Santino, she almost died.

• ISBN10: 0446616702
• ISBN13: 9780446616706
• Publish Date: 1 March 2006
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 19 July 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
• Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 403
• Language: English

Reviews

[Hixxup]

Dante Valentine is the best necromance there is, and she is called by the Devil himself to do a job for him. This job is to kill the guy who just happens to be a demon that killed one of her friends. She is paired up with a demon named Jaf. She sets out on an adventure that takes her clear across the world to get this guy. Meanwhile she has a run on with her ex, a member of the MOB family. So between evading her old feelings for him, and finding her friends killer/demon, and figuring her feelings for Jaf, it turns into a wild ride all the way around for Dante. Great book, loved the world setting the plot and the character the ending left me a little sad though, but we will see how the other books go.

[Melanie]

I really enjoyed this book. It is completely different from any demon book I have read. Dante is called and forced to work for Lucifer himself and is given a demon familiar. I think Danny was very surprised by how she felt about the demon. She starts to trust him and depend on him while she is hunting the demon for Lucifer (and her own revenge). I am very interested in seeing where Danny goes from here.