I started reading Thieftaker but I just can't really get into it. The story is just meh and so are the characters. It also kind of bothers me that the main character is still in love with a former flame, but sleeping with someone else. It also bothers me that he seems to either be loyal to the crown...
Boston, 1765: The British Crown imposes onerous taxes on the thirteen colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty. For Ethan Kaille, a conjurer who makes his living tracking down thieves, politics is for others...until he is asked to recover a necklace w...
“Thieftaker” is not just a modern urban noir supernatural detective story dressed up in a period costume, it is driven by the events and the mindset of the period, which gives it a distinctive and intriguing flavour. It is driven as much by character as by plot. Our hero is not an easy man to be n...
A great read! I actually got this book out of my local library and loved it enough that I went and bought my own copy and also bought the second installment as well. It is a well written and faced paced tale of murder and magic in Boston in the years leading up to the American Revolution. I look...
First of all I want to state that D.B. Jackson AKA David B. Coe is one of my favorite fantasy authors. I got into his books when I chanced upon the first book in his Winds of the Forelands series and bought the rest immediatly. If you haven't read them then do so, you will love them. David B. Coe fi...
This book is definitely multifaceted: historical fiction blended with fantasy, crime / mystery / noir, plus a dash of romance.This works well as long as you like all the genres mentioned above. The only thing that wasn't working for me was the crime novel propensity to carefully describe the hair an...
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