The Thirteenth Pillar

4.5 Stars
The Thirteenth Pillar picks up right where The Thirteenth Child ended, yea! To say that I love Cole and his rag-tag band of misfit detectives is an understatement. Cole, a sidhe warrior, and Joss, his human lover and boss, work together to solve a series of murders. Corhagen, another detective and Cole’s seriously repressed – so in the closet he’s probably lost forever – ex, is also part of Section 13. Sadly, he spends too much time making snide comments to and about Cole and Joss, and not enough on finding himself. (Let’s just say that there is a shower scene where Cole is summoned. . . bad timing for Cole and Joss, but Corhagen kinda deserved what he ‘got’.)
A series of child murders, along with a teacher’s, leads them to a private school which in turn, leads to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a group that would love to enslave or wipe out the fey races. From there things get really complicated and hot.
Just as they think they’re closing in on the ‘bad guy’ a blizzard arrives, the Order visits, and relationships are strained. Some of the cast from book 1 return (Mal the ghost sorcerer that now controls the realm Cole lives in), Cole’s double-headed sword and twin guns (no pointing out they aren’t people) and the members of Section Thirteen . . . But we also meet some new and wonderful beings – pixies, a trow, a tree dryad that Cole sings for, fey wolves, and more.
J.L writes with such a rich brush that even though you know they aren’t real and that these atrocities didn’t happen, the characters still feel so real you can’t help but pray for their safety and hope that things work out as they should.
There is so much more I could mention. The characters are fun, the plot powerful, the sex HOT – oh yes, the sex is HOT ;) The third book was just released last month and that’s what’s next on my TBR pile (I moved it to the top thanks to this one leaving me desperate for more!)