Opening a Door to Hell may seem like fun and games to you, but it’s kept Allie very busy for the past six years. Not only is Sally’s Diner, the business she runs, booming because of a wish she made to the Door, but ultra hot demon hunter Ryan has been in her hair since the Door opened, killing the demons that get through and helping around the diner in his spare time.

Okay, maybe it is fun and games…until the Door disappears. Then all hell breaks loose.

Allie may not be a true hunter, but Ryan has trained her ever since a demon got through and almost made her a snack. When Ryan and a handful of his fellow hunters—Roxie, who puts the bad in badass chick, and Jackson and Christian who are totally having a bromance—decide to enter a Door into one of the Hell dimensions to seek guidance from a god, Allie decides she’s going with them. It’s her fault the Door exists, and she’s not about to let other people clean up her demonic mess.

This first thing I thought when I finished Salt and Silver by Anna Katherine was, “Wow.” Actually, that was the first thing I thought when I started the book. From page one, I was into this book. The plot, the romance, the mythology, all of it is masterfully crafted and wrapped in this cute little package that, if you’re not careful, has the power to eat you alive. It was like Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere with a hint of MaryJanice Davidson—well researched with amazing world-building and a level of snark that I can only hope to reach.

Allie is a protagonist that I totally get. Not only does she have my habit of internalizing the most inappropriate things and the oddest times (like shunning the vanilla part of Ryan’s cookie during a conversation about entering a Hell dimension), but she makes mistakes, owns up to them, and makes them again. Her relationship with Ryan—who, by the way, I wanted to push over the edge of a cliff at the beginning of the book—had just enough built-up energy to it to cause a massive explosion when they finally kissed, and I have a feeling that there are some deep, dark secrets that will come up in future books…if there are future books (please, please please?).

Books written in present tense normally bug me enough that I can’t finish them, but I barely noticed it in this book. It helped propel the action and it fit the inner workings of the narrator’s mind perfectly. This coupled with all the other amazing aspects of this book—and seriously, there were far too many to name in this review—earn Salt and Silver 5 tombstones.

Book Stats:

• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books; Original edition (April 28, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765363046
• ISBN-13: 978-0765363046

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