Unnatural Issue

Don't be fooled by the sweet looking covers, this series is filled with very dark tales. Lackey gives us another great heroine, Susanne, a damsel in distress that holds her own, interacting with several of the series regulars. Set in 1914, this well paced Elemental story blends necromancy and dark magic into the ominous build up to WW1 through early 1915, when the realization of just how horrid a war it will be sets in. The images of gruesome trench warfare and reanimated rotting dead work very well together and give this entry a particularly sinister vibe.