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Use of the Large Hadron Collider causes a world of mythical beings and creatures to collapse into ours. Xenophobia and all the usual, ensues. Our MCs are attempting to balance things out more fairly, working in the San Fran Police Dept, and as a liaison.
Interesting character setup, both have intriguing backstories / motivations. Lovely world-building, there's a lot going on, most of it pretty dystopian. And the plot is fair.
It just ... never quite lands for me. A major confrontation is done off-page. There's a lot of pining and UST that I didn't somehow feel. They talk a lot, but don't say very much. I'll keep on reading, because the world is strong, and perhaps once they Just Kiss things will improve, but ... needed a little more depth for me to really love it.
Spice Note -1 instance, only involving one MC, early on. Otherwise, nothing in this book.
Interesting character setup, both have intriguing backstories / motivations. Lovely world-building, there's a lot going on, most of it pretty dystopian. And the plot is fair.
It just ... never quite lands for me. A major confrontation is done off-page. There's a lot of pining and UST that I didn't somehow feel. They talk a lot, but don't say very much. I'll keep on reading, because the world is strong, and perhaps once they Just Kiss things will improve, but ... needed a little more depth for me to really love it.
Spice Note -
Slice-of-life horror? Well okay then! Summary: our MC is coerced into attempting to salvage information from a very long-abandoned spaceship -- but others want it too.
If you're a sucker for 'thieves with a heart of gold' this one may be for you. It is a good 100 pages longer than it needs to be ... a loving editor needed to delete several chapters (no to cockroaches!) But the chapters are very short, so it still feels like a romp, and generally there's something interesting happening in each.
I liked the overall universe setup -- two warring sides, plus a third opposition makes for interesting clashes. There's such a strong focus on the core characters, it rather left the side characters under-developed, which then makes it hard to care about them being under threat. But the mains are great!
Could be read as a standalone, but the last page sets us up for the next in the series.
If you're a sucker for 'thieves with a heart of gold' this one may be for you. It is a good 100 pages longer than it needs to be ... a loving editor needed to delete several chapters (no to cockroaches!) But the chapters are very short, so it still feels like a romp, and generally there's something interesting happening in each.
I liked the overall universe setup -- two warring sides, plus a third opposition makes for interesting clashes. There's such a strong focus on the core characters, it rather left the side characters under-developed, which then makes it hard to care about them being under threat. But the mains are great!
Could be read as a standalone, but the last page sets us up for the next in the series.
The Library of Alexandria never burned -- and now it's the near-future, but society has been controlled & shaped in strange ways by its control. Our hero, born into a book-stealing family, applies to become a Librarian ... and heads to Alexandria to study.
Harry Potter meets The Book Thief via Fahrenheit 451 -- and just as good as all of those!
Mostly this is a great YA romp with dark academia vibes, grey motivations, and a lot of shade thrown on ereaders that connect to a central source, licencing rather than owning the text, and can therefore have books edited/withdrawn at any time.
Harry Potter meets The Book Thief via Fahrenheit 451 -- and just as good as all of those!
Mostly this is a great YA romp with dark academia vibes, grey motivations, and a lot of shade thrown on ereaders that connect to a central source, licencing rather than owning the text, and can therefore have books edited/withdrawn at any time.
