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Original Title:	Night Child
ISBN:	0441016022 (ISBN13: 9780441016020)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	OSI #1
Characters:	Tess Corday
Literary Awards:	Sunburst Award Nominee for Canadian Novel (2009)

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FIRST IN A NEW SERIES.

Enter the night world of the OSI... OCCULT SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR

Tess Corday, Occult Special Investigator for Vancouver's Mystical Crime Lab, is used to seeing dead vampires. But there's nothing ordinary about this case. Not the lab results on the cause of death. Not the teenage girl living at the address found in the vamp's pocket, who may well be in thrall to a demon. And certainly not Lucian Agrado, the necromancer who is liaison to the vampire community. Agrado is supposed to be part of the solution, but Tess suspects he might be part of the problem.

Soon she finds herself in the middle of a paranormal conspiracy that will change her life forever... and possibly end it.

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Title	:	Night Child (OSI #1)
Author	:	Jes Battis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 292 pages
Published	:	May 27th 2008 by Ace (first published March 27th 2008)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Vampires. Magic. Mystery. Demons

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Ratings: 3.4 From 1394 Users | 119 Reviews

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This UF has its charms and its downfalls and, weirdly enough, they are the same. -I loved the procedural and at the same time hated it when it went over the top. -I loved the mix of science and magic, but was confused by it. -The relationship among characters was its driving point, but some of them didn't have sense. Lucian and Tess were a WTF? As in "I don't understand what's going on and how". The world-building is intriguing and nicely paced. I didn't get any infodump sensation (there were

Well, it's not very often I feel like an intellectual midget but this book managed to do just that. I'm actually disappointed cause the premise really grabbed my attention - I thought it would be something like a cross between CSI and Moonlight. Instead, I got lost in the "geekspeak". Tess is a mage. She investigates paranormal crimes with her partner, a telepath. They become caught up in a confusing case involving vampires, demons, and necromancers. Tess also has flashbacks to the death of a

Good, worth reading book 2This is an interesting series. I see a similarity to a lot of older authors works, but with just enough differences to make it an intriguing world this author has created.

Night Child by Jes BattisBook 1 of Tess Corday, Occult Special Investigator This is not a spoiler free review.There are two kinds of urban fantasies the kind where a select few are involved in a secret underworld of paranormal and the kind where the world is some sort of alternate universe copy of our world where everyone knows about vampires, werewolves, fae and the like. This book is the second kind.Tess Corday works for Occult Special Investigators the paranormal equivalent of CSI. The

Tess, an Occult Special Investigator, Level 1 is at a very clean scene with a dead vampire.  Barely any clues to follow.  On top of that, she's got to keep her nose down and go by the book on this one - she's way too old to still be a Level 1, so it's either a promotion or getting let go - and her boss seems to have it out for her.  It doesn't help that Meg, the girl tangled up in all of this, reminds Tess too much of her past.There were definitely some confusing plot points in this, a few times

Well, it's not very often I feel like an intellectual midget but this book managed to do just that. I'm actually disappointed cause the premise really grabbed my attention - I thought it would be something like a cross between CSI and Moonlight. Instead, I got lost in the "geekspeak". Tess is a mage. She investigates paranormal crimes with her partner, a telepath. They become caught up in a confusing case involving vampires, demons, and necromancers. Tess also has flashbacks to the death of a

Night Child is kept going by the paranormal murder mystery aspect, and nothing else. In the mystery respect, it is interesting; enough clues are revealed to the reader that keeps you guessing and wanting to find out more. The different species are fairly standard at first glance - vampires, demons, mages - but the lore is actually rather unique. Where the book falls a little flat, however, is the characters and world-building.That there's barely any sense of the actual world that Night Child is