Santa Olivia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780446198172)

Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, Santa Olivia is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth.

Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive "Wolf-Man" who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. The "Wolf-Men" were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear, and Loup, named for and sharing her father's wolf-like qualities, is marked as an outsider.

After her mother dies, Loup goes to live among the misfit orphans at the parish church, where they seethe from the injustices visited upon the locals by the soldiers. Eventually, the orphans find an outlet for their frustrations: They form a vigilante group to support Loup Garron who, costumed as their patron saint, Santa Olivia, uses her special abilities to avenge the town.

Aware that she could lose her freedom, and possibly her life, Loup is determined to fight to redress the wrongs her community has suffered. And like the reincarnation of their patron saint, she will bring hope to all of Santa Olivia.

Author: Jacqueline Carey
ISBN-10: 044619817X
ISBN-13: 9780446198172
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.24w x 0.95d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/06/2009 pg. 35
Library Journal 04/15/2009 pg. 87
Romantic Times 06/01/2009 pg. 78 - Excellent