Who's Your Author? discussion

Overview

My name is Nick Gautier and this is the story of my life.

First off, get the name right. It’s pronounced Go-shay not Go-tee-ay or Goat-chay (that has an extra H in it and as my mom says we’re so poor we couldn’t afford the extra letter). I’m not some fancy French fashion designer. I’m just a regular kid… well as regular as someone with a stripper for a mother and a career felon for a father can be.

But as my mom so often says friends are what God gives us to make up for the families we’re born into. And my mother, in spite of her occupation is a lady and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. Consider this your notice. You respect Cherise Gautier or I’ll learn you better.

My kingdom is the French Quarter and here I reign as prince. Everyone knows me and I know them.

Now I’m not doing bad for a kid whose education is from the backstreets and alleys. I sweep floors in the doll store along with a few other unmentionable jobs my mom would kill me over if she knew about. I even work as a guide on the “Undead of New Orleans” tours. Everyone who visits the Quarter either takes one or runs into one of these tours passing on the street. You know them. “And on this spot something spooky happened” or some other load of bull. Heck, I make most of it up each night just to keep from being bored.

I mean really, demons? Werewolves? Gods and goddesses on the streets (other than those being portrayed on the Mardi Gras floats)? Vampires? Who believes that crap?

The only blood-suckers I ever saw were the lawyers in their expensive suits and big butt mosquitoes (if you’ve ever been to New Orleans, then you know about the B-52 bombers I’m talking about). Besides, now that Anne Rice has moved out of town, she took the lot of that with her. We’re a vamp-free zone.

And then one night, I decided that even though I’d done a lot of bad things in my life, I wasn’t about to shake down a couple of tourists no matter how much money they had and I didn’t. So instead of beating on some innocents, the guys I hung with beat on me.

They’d have killed me, too, had it not been for this mysterious dude who came out of nowhere and struck them down so fast all I could see was a black blur. The next thing I know, I’m a part of a world I’d never imagined in my wildest dreams. And my dreams can be pretty rowdy.

The Dark-Hunters call them Daimons, but I call them scary as all get out. Soul-sucking demons, they’re controlled by a ruthless goddess who has been trapped in a realm she despises. Now it’s a game of cat-and-mouse between the goddess Apollymi and the Dark-Hunter Acheron.

The winner takes the world.

And I am right smack dab in the middle of this war. And don’t even get me started on the zombies one of my friends created or the fact that my new best friend is a demon… oh and never let me forget that I’m being trained by Death himself.

Trust me being undead isn’t for amateurs and it’s not playtime with the paranormal. All the scary things that go bump in the night are real and you should pray you never come into contact with them in their true forms. They exist and are all around us. From the butcher and baker on St. Anne, to the little old doll maker on Royal, to the captain of my football team who happens to be a werewolf. In fact, your favorite restaurant could very well be run by an entire family of shape-shifting bears. And who knew the girl I had a crush on comes from a long line of people who watch over the vampire slayers?

How do I know?

No, I’m not one of the undead. I just work for them now.

And I love every minute of it.

Spinoff of the Dark-Hunters series.

I started to read this series before the Dark Hunter series. I love Nick, love his relationship to his mother. I love seeing him as a kid working for the Dark Hunters, seeing all of them in a different life. It is due to this series that I give him the benefit of a doubt in the other series, have hope that he won't stay how he currently is.

You know I own the first book and I have picked it up a few times but I just cannot get into it.
I think maybe because of what happens in the DH series I dunno.

I own all 4 book and have read them. For those of you who haven't read this series, Nick has gone back in time trying to change what happened in the Dark-Hunter series with his mom and with Simi. I think this series is the reason Kenyon has put her DH series in a holding pattern in regards to what went down between Ash and Nick. My big question is if he changes his past, how will it affect the future or will he have to come to terms that it all played out the way it had to? If I remember correctly, didn't Ash tell Nick, at one point, he was supposed to marry Tabitha?

Lisarenee wrote: "I own all 4 book and have read them. For those of you who haven't read this series, Nick has gone back in time trying to change what happened in the Dark-Hunter series with his mom and with Simi. I..."

I don't remember that bit about Tabitha, but I would love to see the rift between Nick and Ash fixed. I would also love to see what happened to Cherise be undone. I know when I listened to the DH book with that I was stunned and had to re-listen to that part to make sure I got it right.

I can't remember which book it was, but I remember Ash saying when he first met Nick he could see his future laid out and when Ash lost his temper over the Simi incident that that future changed. Strange because Ash usually can't see the future of his friends or family. Maybe I got the girl wrong, but I know it was about someone who hadn't been hooked up yet. Now I'm second guessing who the person was. I remembered it because they said he was supposed to have a gazillion daughters and that made me wonder how he would have managed to do that with the whole Malachai thing going on? Of course the end of Inferno makes one wonder...

Ash's powers only allowed him to see the human aspect of nick's life not the malachai's aspect. That future was a possibility only if he never killed his father.

Either way I think the slowing down of the DH universe is to allow for the CON choices to assert its impact in the DH world as a few of the more recent books show discrepancies in time lines now.

I recently read the latest CON and what a cliff hanger. My son and I can't wait for the next book.

Jose wrote: "Ash's powers only allowed him to see the human aspect of nick's life not the malachai's aspect. That future was a possibility only if he never killed his father.

Either way I think the slowing do..."

Kenyon can use that timeline discrepancy in CON to excuse a lot now. I'm curious how this series will come to a close and if an end date is already in sight?