Book number 11 finished :)

I just finished reading L.A Banks Minion but I thought you would like to know what the premise of the novel is... no spoilers I promise!

This is the first novel in Banks' wonderfully creative action-packed series. Here, we meet Damali Richards- the millennium born Neteru who just wants to have a normal young life and rock the musical world as a spoken-word artist. Damali posses all of the 6 extrasensory specialties plus a 7th one which is only held by a Neteru: - by Ancient Egyptian or Kemetian translation; God's divine powers latent within humans.. divine ways. (www.vampirehuntress.com). A Neteru is only created once every thousand years and Damali Richards is the only one to date to span two millennia.

She is aided and guarded by the Warriors of Light (W of L), a group of specially chosen guardians of the Light, working for the Divine Supreme Court to keep the evil legions at bay on the "gray zone" which is earth (heaven is the white or light zone, and hell or below ground is the black zone) and to protect the humans.  Each Neteru is aided by a special set of guardians who are given higher sensory abilities and the task to train, teach, guide and protect the Neteru until their coming of age.

The Neteru guardian team made up of; Marlene Stone- the Mother-Seer, Shabazz- tactical (heightened sensory, can feel spirits/entities), Big Mike-Audio (hears what the spirits whisper), Rider-Olfactory (aka "the nose", smells trouble), Jose-Olfactory and taste, JL-Tactical (and weapons developer), Dan-W of L assistant and PR (becomes teams peacekeeper).

We also meet Carlos Rivera- a young successful drug lord/nightclub owner from the old block. He and Damali had been together in their late teen years (Damali was 15 and Carlos was 18 when they met) and still have a "thing going on" for each other. Carlo's life is dangerously on the edge and his faith wavers but he's holding on to his love for Damali.

L.A Banks packs a powerful punch with this opening novel and I automatically fell in love with each and every character.. even with Fallon Nuit- Master Vampire and main nemesis of the Warrior of Light both on the demonic level and the music world level (Fallon Nuit owns the label Blood Music who are in competition with Warriors of Light's music label.

The series starts off with a bang and I'm so excited to keep reading! So onward to the next book...

The Awakening        - L.A Banks

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