Linda Robertson

I just finished reading these three books by Linda Robertson, a series following the witch character Persephone.  This being after, finally, a sucessful hunt at the bookstore rather than being reduced to what is available on the pharmacy shelf... bout time too.  This series is pretty darn good and has some strong parallels with Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series.  Without ruining the plot I will say that it involves a master vampire, a king of werewolves and a witch.  That is seen with Anita Blake as well but the similarity extends to the fact these three characters become increasingly linked together through life and magic.  Now, every story that has ever been written has been written before, so re-occuring plots and themes are common enough, or even inspired by each other.  These are unique in-themselves with character's that are complex with varied motivations.  Most definately Robertson's series is not nearly as insanely erotic as Hamilton's, but that is neither bad nor good in my book, just different.  I quite enjoyed this series, as it is filled with hard fates and even harder choices... just showing that being special is a hard thing to be.  I think she also adds some good witchery.  I have seen witch craft portrayed very loosely and sometimes very detailed... and in Robertson's we see some of the ritual elements, but not enough to bog the reader down with details, some spiritual aspects, but not too much as to make it cerebral and/or flakey and some very powerful religious components showing the relation of a witch to her gods.  As for the vampires and werewolves, I rather think she has them down in rather like the move series Underworld, where the two speicies came into existence through one cursed individual each.  Looks like there is already a fourth on the shelves that I can look forward to reading.