Guest Review: True Grime – Natasha Deen

Grime cop and teen fairy Pepper Powder lives for one thing: protecting the human species from magical zealots who seek to eradicate them with Violent Illness of Unusual Resistance and Strength (humans call them “viruses,” but their mistake is understandable. The very young often get their words wrong.). When a terrorist leader releases a necrophage bomb, it not only decimates Grime headquarters, it turns Pepper into the magical world’s first fairy amputee—but she’s not going to let a little thing like a missing leg stop her. To catch her criminal, and prevent him from unleashing a VIURS in one of the human world’s biggest shopping centers, West Edmonton Mall, she goes undercover as a human. But once Pepper’s theories of humanity collide with the reality of bullies, cliques, and environmental destruction, will she still believe humanity’s worth saving?

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Release Date:  August 24, 2011
Publisher:  Blueberry Hill
Source:  Provided by Publicist
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Reviewer’s Thoughts:

Completely original with fantastic characters, True Grime was entertaining and very fun!  Grime officers are fairies whose main purpose is to protect the human race from the evils that hunt them.  One of those evils is the fairy gone bad and convicted killer, Claude Von Beulow.  He escapes from an Asylum for the Criminally Insane and is set on wiping out the human race.  When word gets out that he’s escaped, two of the Grime officers, Pepper and Harley, know they must stop him.  Both of them have a history with Von Beulow.  He killed both of their fathers, leaving them with their own need for revenge.  When the Grime squad is finally called in to investigate, Pepper and Harley are put in dangerous and deadly situations that test their loyalty, strength, and feelings for one another.

Pepper and Harley are awesome!  They are tough and courageous, everything you look for in a heroine/hero.  Throughout the book, their characters grow and develop beautifully, as they are exposed to some wildly intense situations that bring about parts of themselves they didn’t know existed.  And as they grow individually, their relationship with one another grows as well, leaving you, as the reader, intrigued and wanting much, much more.

Overall, the originality of the story is enough to draw you in, and the intensity of the manhunt for Von Beulow leaves you holding your breath, eager to find out what happens next.  As I have recently discovered, this is the first in what appears to be a series of books, and I cannot wait to begin the next one!

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