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Breach by W. L. Goodwater
5.0

“His old bones told him something was up, that she was playing notes from a different song; he just didn’t know which key.”

I received this book in the Cre8ive Inspir8ions Indulge box back in December 2018 , when I first took it out of the box I didn't know what to expect just by the title of the book, I mean Breach is such a vague title that it could mean anything, but once I read the blurb of the book I was immediately interested.

I mean this book is set during the time of the Berlin Wall and there's magicians in it, how could you not win with this book?

The story follows our lead character Karen, she is an American magician scientist or scientist magician… look she is a magician but she is also a scientist whichever tile she wants to go with I’ll be on board, what you really need to know is that she is also a badass feminist and I love her to death.

I started this book and I was only like 24 pages in when I realised that I loved this woman and she was my queen! During the time this book is set women had to work really hard to gain respect in the workplace, if they got any at all, but Karen takes not crap and will stand up for herself to any man and I love her for it.

Anyway, Karen is chosen to travel to Germany to assist the CIA with an investigation, you see, the Berlin Wall which in this story is a magical barrier has started to crack and they need to know why this is happening and how to stop it. While Karen tries to help a mystery starts to unravel and she decides to figure it all out before it is too late.

As many of you know characters make the story for me, if the characters aren't well written I lose interest very fast and will often DNF the book. Well, the characters in Breach were amazing, I loved every one of them and each one was beneficial to the story.

Some of my favourites were Jim and Dennis the CIA agent, and the chief of the CIA, my grumpy dad, Arthur. I will admit that it didn’t take me long at all to claim them all as my children and threaten other characters for being mean to them. (I’m protective of my fictional children okay!?)
This book was full of history, comedy, action, and was so full of mystery that I seriously had no idea where we were going, I was just happy to be along for the ride.

I love the writing style it was very easy to read and very descriptive, while at the same time not being overly descriptive, the conversations the characters had ran smoothly and seemed like a conversation that would actually happen during that time, you know without the magic though.

Rating: 5/5 stars- Amazing! I loved it!

Now this was the first book in what I believe is a duology, with the next book, Revolution, coming out in November, I'm beyond excited to see what revolution brings. All I know is that we still follow our lead Karen into a brand-new location with brand new magic and I'm so excited.
I would highly recommend this book to people who enjoy fantasy or historical fantasies or for anyone looking for something a bit different to read.

This is probably one of my favourite books of 2019 and it is one I will be recommending to people for a while.