Rating: 2 stars

Hunter Jill Kismet has been called to help investigate the murder of a Santa Luz prostitute. The woman has been eviscerated so completely that at first that aren't sure that it is a woman. This won't be the only dead prostitute before the case is solved.

Unfortunately for Jill this is a case that will entirely to close to home. As she rushes to solve the case she must relive each painful memory that brought her from teen prostitution to the arms of the man who would mentor her into the Hunt. She will also find herself face-to-face with the woman who was responsible for taking his life.

Jill must find a way to cage her emotions before the lead her right into the trap that's waiting for her.

And that trap would be... one of just how much self-hate/self-pity/whining one character can do in one book. I really tried to like this book. I liked the first one but this one was just not good. Lines were repeated continuously from the first book and not even the good lines. Jokes were recycled and conversations rehashed. Jill became so incredibly obnoxious but that wasn't actually the part that bothered me the most.

The most bothersome part would be the continuity errors and they were legion. To keep this short I'll just give a few examples. The first was her appearance. In Night Shift we were told that she's relatively small. Compared to the cop she reports to she's "half his size" and he's not reported as being overly large. Yet in Hunter's Prayer it's stated that she's tall for a woman. The other big issue was the time continuity. This occurs in Hunter's Prayer. Hunter's Prayer, from what I could gather initially, seems to be taking place a year and a half after Night Shift. Later she speaks to someone that she states (in narrative) that she rescued five years previously, just months before she met her current boyfriend. This doesn't make sense because she met her current boyfriend during Night Shift. You see my problem.

I don't know what happened but something went terribly, terribly wrong. Maybe this is a case of way too many, way too fast.
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Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date: September 2008
ISBN-13: 9780316001762