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Interesting book. It's a pretty good addition to the UF universes. Here we have a mythology that centers around magic weapons or as the book refers to them "holy weapons" (though the use of the word is somewhat subjective and means something different in this fictional universe than it might elsewhere). Anyway...as noted the story revolves around weapons, primarily Damoren. Lest I'm unclear there, Damoren is one of these weapons, a revolver with a knife blade under the barrel.

See...monsters can be, "killed" by whatever is their weakness, silver for werewolves, gold for Rakshasas (though I never heard of that one so it's probably unique to the book.) etc. But it takes one of the "holy weapons" or magic weapons to kill the creature inside the possessed human. If you just kill a werewolf with a silver bullet then the "actual" werewolf floats around in the "Aether" (so to speak) till it can possess another body. The "holy weapons" kill the "thing inside". There are various kinds of weapons and the monsters want to destroy them. Once a weapon is broken it's dead. See the weapons "bond" to a hunter and it's apparently a very intense relationship...I mean,"VERY INTENSE". So the hunters are badly shaken up if their weapon dies and as I said if a weapon gets broken or smashed it's dead...

Except for Damoren.

Damoren was at one time a sword. Dameron was broken. But Damoren didn't die.

Damoren's hunter had Damoren reforged as a cap and ball revolver.

I'd say that if you like Urban Fantasy in general and/or the Monster Hunter motif then you'll like this book. We have the protagonist who isn't trusted by his allies, traditional monsters, nontraditional monsters, a twist at the end that while not wholly original isn't one we've seen overworked and it's got a good lead in.

There are also some openings for interesting characters to come, or possibly "reappear" might be a better word. There's a lot of room for expansion in the "world" and it's magic system. There are of course some big internal logic holes in the novel but we live in hope that kind of thing will get handled.

I mean for example, if the only way the actual "monsters" can be dispatched permanently (so to speak) is with one of the "holy weapons" then there must be more holy weapons somewhere or we'd be hip deep in lycanthropes, vampires and other nasties. Still instead of looking at that as a drawback I choose to see it as an opportunity for Mr. Skorkowsky.

I like the book. Maybe not the "best" Urban Fantasy out there and not one I'll be counting the days till the next installment is available, but a pretty good UF/action read.

Recommend (mostly though with a few caveats). Enjoy.