Talons – John DeChancie
This starts off as a pretty much straight forward cop story, with the occasional Witchblade mention. Things start to accelerate after that, with Romanian grandmothers, a werewolv, a Mah Johngg white snow dragon, and that is just in the slower middle part of the book.
Ther e is a crazy confrontation at the end, fueled by a magic sentient computer, a Kabbalah-hacker-artiste, a dragon, a two page cameo by Dracula, for no apparent reason, who also fails to keep his head, Nottingham, the magic summoning teleportation of a police captain, a fire extinguisher, some bird alien race through the portal of a computer, a god, and some deific temptation for Sara.
She says no, and discovers that just possible the sneaky entity on her wrist was behind it.
Fairly straightforward, but madcap ending, perhaps somewhat rushed, not sure if there was a word count mandate?
3 out of 5
