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I loved this!
It's been a long time I've read a book where the MC was just human but I loved it. The world, the universe, the wit, the attraction.
I can't wait for the next book to get released!
It's been a long time I've read a book where the MC was just human but I loved it. The world, the universe, the wit, the attraction.
I can't wait for the next book to get released!
Jennifer Blackstream has invented something here, she has clawed at the market that is urban fantasy and created a small little hole for herself and sometime in the future she will be as commonly known as the mercyverse.
Atleast that is my prediction,
Shade Renard and her pixy sidekick have a lot of the typical characteristic of a female MC in urban fantasy, but there are details, important details, that set them apart. The sidekick, the annoying, let-me-wring-your-neck-out, annoying sidekick is actually in a loving relationship with her witch. They're family, and they squabble like an older sister looking out for a much younger one. (Despite the pixy actually being the older one).
Shade Renard is filled with this strong desire to do good, she is filled with a type of moral where she WONT stand by when shit is hitting the fan. Also typical in the genre, however Shade Renard has a reason for it. A dark past she refuses to linger much thought on, but one that is hinted heavily at is the reason why she is so moral now, such a heroine, she is seeking redemption, from something.
But what really sells this series is the universe, and it is set up so perfectly. Shade Renard, the witch who is god knows how old meets a human cop and somehow gets him entangled in all this. He's a cop, and once he's onboard all he does is ask question. This way he will ask what is x, and what is y, and Shade Renard will try to explain.
This way the reader gets fed pieces of information about this universe, its magical creatures, and its systems and it is good.
I cannot detest books that just fling around magic without any systems, here.. here there are rules, some commonly known and some a little more complex. (In book 4 we get introduced to a technomancer and that was VERY interesting). I love the magic in this book, I love the basic spellslinging magic and the more advanced magic that when explained actually shows a basis in science.
This book was great, and it's a promising start to what will, hopefully, be a long journey.
Atleast that is my prediction,
Shade Renard and her pixy sidekick have a lot of the typical characteristic of a female MC in urban fantasy, but there are details, important details, that set them apart. The sidekick, the annoying, let-me-wring-your-neck-out, annoying sidekick is actually in a loving relationship with her witch. They're family, and they squabble like an older sister looking out for a much younger one. (Despite the pixy actually being the older one).
Shade Renard is filled with this strong desire to do good, she is filled with a type of moral where she WONT stand by when shit is hitting the fan. Also typical in the genre, however Shade Renard has a reason for it. A dark past she refuses to linger much thought on, but one that is hinted heavily at is the reason why she is so moral now, such a heroine, she is seeking redemption, from something.
But what really sells this series is the universe, and it is set up so perfectly. Shade Renard, the witch who is god knows how old meets a human cop and somehow gets him entangled in all this. He's a cop, and once he's onboard all he does is ask question. This way he will ask what is x, and what is y, and Shade Renard will try to explain.
This way the reader gets fed pieces of information about this universe, its magical creatures, and its systems and it is good.
I cannot detest books that just fling around magic without any systems, here.. here there are rules, some commonly known and some a little more complex. (In book 4 we get introduced to a technomancer and that was VERY interesting). I love the magic in this book, I love the basic spellslinging magic and the more advanced magic that when explained actually shows a basis in science.
This book was great, and it's a promising start to what will, hopefully, be a long journey.
Chronicles of Arcana was addictive to me. I started the first book and didn't put my kindle down before it was 4:30 at night and I had finished two books. The series is amazing and is continuous straight from the previous one so I'm going to write one review for all of them.
The covers are horrible to me, and I only read it because it was recommended to me on a facebook group and it was by mere chance that it was the FIRST book recommended in a series of many. Only reason I read it first. and boy. oh boy. I wasn't prepared to fall in love like this.
It's a rare thing that I finish a series and I'm furious. I'm furious it's over. I want more. I NEED more.
The series builds slowly, has plottwists I didn't see coming and has a very nice ending.
I really want more. I can gush about this a lot, but the series plottwists are too good for me to spoil. I felt.. some of them was a little rushed. Don't misunderstand, they where great. But this world? It's huge. it's complex. and has complex characters. The story is 4 books that start the typical urban fantasy way of an investigator getting tumbled into a mess that isn't theirs and end up in saving the world kind of stuff.
But at the end of the four books you have a chapter that says "4 years later".
I don't like that.
I'd wish there was 4 more books to give us a breathing room, to see romances expand, relationships build and get to know the culture of the two cities and how to make them get along well.
It's my only complaint: the author made a too complex world and didn't let us explore it enough.
Silly complaint isn't it?
If you like urban fantasy. Read it.
If you like reverse harem. Read it.
If you like urban fantasy but not really into the whole reverse harem, read it. It has a lot of romance elements but the RH part doesn't come until the very end and the only difference between a story with multiple love interests and this is that in the end she didn't need to pick. But most of the book she felt she couldn't be with anyone because she COULDN'T pick.
The covers are horrible to me, and I only read it because it was recommended to me on a facebook group and it was by mere chance that it was the FIRST book recommended in a series of many. Only reason I read it first. and boy. oh boy. I wasn't prepared to fall in love like this.
It's a rare thing that I finish a series and I'm furious. I'm furious it's over. I want more. I NEED more.
The series builds slowly, has plottwists I didn't see coming and has a very nice ending.
I really want more. I can gush about this a lot, but the series plottwists are too good for me to spoil. I felt.. some of them was a little rushed. Don't misunderstand, they where great. But this world? It's huge. it's complex. and has complex characters. The story is 4 books that start the typical urban fantasy way of an investigator getting tumbled into a mess that isn't theirs and end up in saving the world kind of stuff.
But at the end of the four books you have a chapter that says "4 years later".
I don't like that.
I'd wish there was 4 more books to give us a breathing room, to see romances expand, relationships build and get to know the culture of the two cities and how to make them get along well.
It's my only complaint: the author made a too complex world and didn't let us explore it enough.
Silly complaint isn't it?
If you like urban fantasy. Read it.
If you like reverse harem. Read it.
If you like urban fantasy but not really into the whole reverse harem, read it. It has a lot of romance elements but the RH part doesn't come until the very end and the only difference between a story with multiple love interests and this is that in the end she didn't need to pick. But most of the book she felt she couldn't be with anyone because she COULDN'T pick.
