Charlie Huston’s No Dominion is the second of the Joe Pitt books (the first being Already Dead).
Joe Pitt is an independent Vampyre living in a New York City that has been carved up into territories by Vampyre Clans. Joe, down on his luck and down to his last few bags of blood, asks his old boss at the Society Clan for some work. The contract seems simple enough: track down the source of a new drug that’s addicting Vampyres. Simple, until Joe’s investigations draws him into the territories of rival clans and into the sights of too many people who want him dead.
Huston’s gritty vision of vampirism is refreshing in a world of books where the vampire has mostly become the seducer. Here, Vampyres are victims of a virus, and the societies they build are fascinating and all-too plausible.
Some of the formatting of the book – namely, the lack of quotations marks – is off-putting initially, but becomes less of a problem as the fast-paced story takes off.
Reading the first book is recommended before reading this one, if only to get a good grounding in Joe’s world.
No Dominion is highly recommended, especially if you’re tired of reading what seems to have become the standard urban fantasy tropes.
No Dominion is published by Orbit Books.
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