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Original Title:	The Better Part of Darkness
ISBN:	1439109656 (ISBN13: 9781439109656)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Charlie Madigan #1
Characters:	Hank, Charlie Madigan
Setting:	Atlanta, Georgia(United States)
Literary Awards:	RITA Award by Romance Writers of America Nominee for Novel with Strong Romantic Elements & Nominee for First Book (2010)

The Better Part of Darkness (Charlie Madigan #1) Paperback | Pages: 394 pages

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Title	:	The Better Part of Darkness (Charlie Madigan #1)
Author	:	Kelly Gay
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 394 pages
Published	:	November 24th 2009 by Pocket Books (first published November 2nd 2009)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Magic. Demons. Romance

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Atlanta: it's the promised city for the off-worlders, foreigners from the alternate dimensions of heaven-like Elysia and hell-like Charbydon. Some bring good works and miracles. And some bring unimaginable evil.... Charlie Madigan is a divorced mother of one, and a kick-ass cop trained to take down the toughest human and off-world criminals. She's recently returned from the dead after a brutal attack, an unexplained revival that has left her plagued by ruthless nightmares and random outbursts of strength that make doing her job for Atlanta P.D.'s Integration Task Force even harder. Since the Revelation, the criminal element in Underground Atlanta has grown, leaving Charlie and her partner Hank to keep the chaos to a dull roar. But now an insidious new danger is descending on her city with terrifying speed, threatening innocent lives: a deadly, off-world narcotic known as ash. Charlie is determined to uncover the source of ash before it targets another victim -- but can she protect those she loves from a force more powerful than heaven and hell combined?

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I am having a lot of trouble with this review. Might be because it seems to be more of the same. But, when a formula works, why mess with it? Maybe because we as readers like something a little different. Or, at least we *think* we do then we go out and purchase more of the same. I gotta say, this book reminded me a *lot* of Kate Daniels. But, maybe that was just the Atlanta setting. Or, maybe it was the mystifying powers that Charlie had. It certainly wasnt the presence of a shape shifting

A great start to the Charlie Madigan series. I totally loved Charlie and her alien partner Hank. This book immediately grabbed me and held my attention until the final conflict. Charlie is a kickass heroine who gets her ass kicked time and again but of course, comes out on top in the end. Parallel universes Elysia and Charbydon (heaven and hell to humans) have been sending emissaries to Earth for years. Some good and some evil. Now they have acquired citizenship and been integrated into Atlanta

This is the first book in the Charlie Madigan series. It wasn't great (as most first books aren't) but it wasn't bad either and there was enough there to interest me to read more. Charlie is a likeable enough heroine. She's 31 so that differentiates her from most of the twenty-something heroines in the genre, plus she's a single mother to a 12 year old daughter. Eight months post divorce and post a total death experience guarantees that Charlie is not without her fair share of baggage.The

You know how many urban fantasy series I've read over the last few years? Thirteen. Yeah, that's right, THIRTEEN. And that's only the stuff I remember at least vaguely. There's a whole bunch more that I can't even retain, cause they were so boring or generic. And after a while, with that many books rattling around in my brain, they sort of start to merge together. And because I'm a geek, I've even made a table about it. Now which one of these boxes will The Better Part of Darkness check? Why,

Better Part of Darkness worked for me and didn't work for me. It worked for me in that our protagonist, Charlie, makes a lot of mistakes and she pays dearly for most of them. She's not naive, or even particularly idealist honestly, and she knows that the world is in a horrible place, but that doesn't mean she shouldn't keep trying. She also makes choices that aren't usually seen of the 'hero'. All that was very refreshing and interesting for me. Apparently even I have limits on how many

I'm impressed with this first in series. Refreshing to read about an urban fantasy heroine who is in her 30's, has a kid and is divorced. Yes she can still kick ass. Also, would you believe that she actually drinks water and doesn't live on a diet of coffee? I'm flabbergasted. I can't wait to read the rest of the series. I love Kelly Gay's world building and Charlie Madigan is a heroine that just might be my next favourite character in the genre.

THE BETTER PART OF DARKNESS was a weird book because I liked it and didn't like it. There were times where it was slow and I didn't really get what was going on and part where I was completely into what was going on. The characters were great and I really enjoyed them, but the plot bored me to a point where I was skimming through parts of the book.Charlie has the personality of a lot of my favorite Urban Fantasy Heroines. She's very stubborn sometimes and she has a temper on her, but you love