Been a while since I finished a book, yeah? This one was off to a rough start, and I can't even pinpoint what rubbed me wrong about the first 20% of this. Whatever, once they actually start working the case, it's all pretty great. Both the ambitious young recent graduate, and the disillusioned men...
Series: Craft Sequence #1 This book basically has necromantic wizard lawyers dealing with contract law with gods. So Tara Abernathy, a junior associate from Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao whose whole professional future depends on success, gets called in to help with the resurrection of Kos, a recen...
I liked this a lot, and the worldbuilding and magic system really worked for me. I found the pace kind of slow sometimes, but in general, very much enjoyed this.
I liked this a lot, and the worldbuilding and magic system really worked for me. I found the pace kind of slow sometimes, but in general, very much enjoyed this.
This book will make many readers happy, particularly those who enjoy plot-driven, worldbuilding-heavy fantasy. Three Parts Dead has an alternate-world, urban steampunk setting, and features a murder mystery surrounding a dead god, seemingly limitless magic, some paranormal elements (including vampir...
Good grief. I don't know what to say. Three Parts Dead is a unique reading experience. I spent a lot of time not exactly sure I understood everything going on, but I was riveted (and yes, I understood things eventually -- just some of the magic took awhile to register). The closest thing I ca...
There's a LOT going on in this debut novel, and some of it is pulled off better than other stuff.Pluses:--kick-ass protagonist. Tara is a young woman of color who's been expelled from a school of Craft (magic using power from the stars, souls, and other sources), who is hired by....--a kick-ass seco...
Tara barely graduated and was, in fact, kicked of of school upon gradation. Still, she managed to land a provisional job with a firm. Her first task is to use her Craft to find out how and why the fire god Kos died. The city of Alt Coloumb, once powered by the fires of Kos, is slowing down; soon, th...
I have for a while wanted to read this book so when I found it one Scribd I just had to read it. Tara has been thrown out from her the Hidden School, fallen to the earth. You don't get to know why, at least not yet. She returns home to her family and resumes her life there, until the chance comes t...
Combining fantasy with mystery is always a gamble: mysteries rely on an reader's ability to play along with the detective and decode the clues, while fantasy thrives on the creation of strange new worlds and expansive magics that don't necessarily follow conventional physical rules. An author has to...
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