Book Author :: S.M. Stirling

Review

A Taint in the Blood

Posted: August 20, 2010 by Vanessa in Books We Like...and Hate Meta: S.M. Stirling, Urban Fantasy
A Taint in the Blood

Shadowspawn used to rule the Earth as gods. But you can get kind of lazy when you’re immortal and nearly indestructible. After thousands of years of cross-breeding with humans, today’s Shadowspawn posterity isn’t as pureblooded, making for all kinds of problems. Even worse, humans have over-populated the Earth and kind of taken over things. By the time you get around to dealing with the issue, you have to do something drastic, say, another plague to wipe out all the extra humans so you can reestablish yourself as the one in charge.
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