Apex by Mercedes Lackey - ESSENTIAL

Lackey, Mercedes Apex (Hunter #3), 295 pages.  Hyperion (Disney), 2017. $19.  

Language:  PG (25 swears, 0 ‘f’); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG (fantasy fighting)

The attacks by the Othersiders are growing in intensity, scope, and coordination; Elite Joy is sure that the Folk Mages are taking a stronger hand in ordering and controlling the monsters’ attacks.  But to what purpose.  And something is seriously evil about the Psi Corps leader Drift; Joy will have to think fast and get some help to keep her former boyfriend out of his clutches.  And not least, one of the Folk Lords has a personal vendetta against Joy and will expend what lives he has to in order to take her out permanently.  Not too much for a girl from the Mountains to juggle- right?

How can I love Mercedes Lackey more than I already do?  It’s just not possible!  But I do, because her books aimed at YA audiences are just as good as her classic epic fantasy for adults.  Oh Misty, keep on writing!

MS, HS - ESSENTIAL.  Cindy, Library Teacher