Thunder Road

A storm god’s priestess engages in high-speed action and death-defying adventure in this fast-paced urban fantasy, the first in the Rain Chaser series. After Tallulah Corentine steals a treasure from Manea, the goddess of death, on behalf of her patron, storm god Seth, she’s dragged into a contest of wills between the two deities. Manea has threatened to kill Seth’s son, and so Tallulah is dispatched to track him down and take him to a safe haven. She’s given help in the form of Cade, who serves the goddess of bad luck, and the two unlikely allies must race cross-country while avoiding a host of supernatural dangers. Dean (Black Magic Bayou) opens the story with fast cars and adrenaline-pumping excitement, but the pace sometimes lags later on. The worldbuilding and cosmology are complicated and unclear: the gods come from a hodgepodge of belief systems, including Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Hindu, while also fulfilling specific archetypical roles, but how exactly it works is never fully explained. Nonetheless, this is a solidly entertaining tale that grabs the reader right from the start. [em](BookLife) [/em]