George V. Reilly

Review: She Returns From War

She Returns From War
Title: She Returns From War
Author: Lee Collins
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ½
Publisher: Angry Robot
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 368
Keywords: Dark Fantasy
Reading period: 2–4 February, 2016

In this sequel to The Dead of Winter, a young lady called Victoria Dawes travels from England to Al­bu­querque to seek the aid of Cora Oglesby, the now-retired monster hunter. The women draw the attention of a Navajo skinwalker and a vampire, and they spend the book dueling each other. Under Cora’s sarcastic tough love tutelage, Miss Dawes grows from a sheltered Victorian lady into a semi-capable fighter.

The in­ter­ac­tion of the two main characters was fairly en­ter­tain­ing, not wholly pre­pos­ter­ous, and certainly passed the Bechdel test.

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