We first meet our heroine and narrator, Camille, at her bookstore in Seattle. We are front-loaded with a good deal of world building. Camille is half-Faerie, half-human, and a witch whose powers often go awry. She is the oldest of three sisters who are half-Faerie and half human. Mellony, the vampire whose name grates on my ears and Delilah, the were-cat. And by were-cat, I mean were-house-cat. Apparently, Delilah is a hard-edged clever PI who is good with electronics from our world (the three are from the Other World). But whenever her sisters get into an argument, she freaks and turns into a house cat. A lovely, but scared house cat. So far, when she changes, she doesn't seem to retain any of her human intelligence or knowledge. She also seems to spook easily.
Mellony is also pretty annoying. She is too emotionally scarred to tell our hero how she became a vampire, but is all bad-ass and tries to pick fights with him for what appears to be no reason.
Our presumed hero, whose name I can't remember, is a full-blooded human or an FBH. He has the hots for Camille which irritates all three for no discernible reason. Apparently, Camille has never had sex with an FBH and isn't about to start now. She gives us no reason for disliking him except that he is an FBH which means they are going to have sex. So far, he is the only character I like.
At this point, we have learned that someone with demonic ancestry has killed a gently giant whose name I think might have been Jack. He was garroted by the demon with a leather strap. We are told a couple of times that this killer must have been very strong to have killed a giant. The Other World Intelligence Agency (whose name I have already forgotten) has assigned the intrepid sisters to the case.
That brings us to the close of disk 1. I will start disk 2 on my drive to work tomorrow and probably finish it on my way home!
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