Unshapely Things (Connor Gray, #1)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429559089 (142955908X)
Publish date: January 30th 2007
Publisher: Ace Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Series: Connor Grey (#1)
~~Moved from GR~~ Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco Connor Grey was once an incredibly powerful druid, but a work incident left him magically crippled, unable to perform the spells that gave him such high status in the fey world. Now living in Boston and working as a police consultant, Connor is...
My absolute favorite series right now is the Dresden Files, and I tend to compare any other urban fantasy type series to that. I was pleasantly surprised by this. I took me a while to get into it - I kept putting it aside to read something else, but around the 40% mark it hit me (yeah - I can be s...
I originally read this in February 2008. Upon rereading, I definitely appreciated some of the more "old school" urban fantasy elements (harking back to [a:Charles de Lint|8456|Charles de Lint|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1269735259p2/8456.jpg], [a:Emma Bull|22548|Emma Bull|http://d.gr-assets.com/a...
I immediately realized this would not be the most original urban fantasy I'd ever read - Connor Grey is more than a little reminiscent of Harry Dresden. Grey is a Druid who has lost his magic mojo and most of his high-powered magic-using friends. He consults with the police on cases involving magic,...
I loved this book. It was a little slow paced in the beginning but that was fine because del Franco set up a complex world mostly by showing rather than telling. It started as an urban fantasy police procedural and it was well done. About halfway through the real action started and I couldn't put it...
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