To Mills’ credit, she does a decent job of drip feeding the worldbuilding to us at a steady rate, neither overloading the reader at the start nor leaving them in the dark. The book gets off to a fairly slow start, with around 7 characters getting chapters told from their point of view, each one taking their turn to set up the world. We find out that the world of the supernatural is ruled by a set of laws called the Covenant, which is designed primarily to keep humans from finding out about things that they shouldn’t find out about. Over the next few chapters we get introduced to our main characters, including half-demon Del, half-angel Ash, and full-werewolf Rose, as well as a lot of worldbuilding that you’d expect from the first novel in a series like this. The dead guy is a vampire assassin and he walked right into a trap. Heart Blade is the first book in Juliana Spink Mills’ Blade Hunt Chronicles and it opens, as most good books do, with a death. So when the chance to get an early glimpse at a new YA urban fantasy series, I got quite excited. The idea that something big and scary is hiding just out of sight, that we live in a world that is not what it seems is thrilling to me and I inhale just about any story or setting that offers it up.
Honestly, I’m not picky about when my troll punching gets done. I openly pine to live in a world where I can punch a troll in the face on my way home from work.
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