#76 Hunter by Mercedes Lackey

This is a new YA series set in a future where things from Otherside are attacking humans. A few people are born with the powers to fight them with their “hounds”.  Hounds are from another dimension and help the hunters in their battles. They can look like almost anything and they live off the manna they take from the Othersiders in death.  All Hunters must report to Apex City for training and for the most part to keep the main city safe. Apex is where the rebuilding began after the Diseray happened 250 years ago.

Hunters are the sport stars of Apex, They are constantly under the eye of video feeds and rankings are based on kills and viewership.  Joy is on her way to the city to take her place among the Hunters; her uncle has told her to come but to hide the information of her life out in the mountains. Her uncle is in charge of the Hunters but stays mostly out of contact with her to not show favoritism since everything between them is for public consumption.

Things are not as great in the city as it seems to the people living farther away and there is dissent brewing.  This is a good setup book for the rest of the story and I’m curious as to what will come next in this universe.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley