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Left Hand Magic (2011)

by Nancy A. Collins(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0451464303 (ISBN13: 9780451464309)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Roc

series

Golgotham

review 1: This was a hard book to read with all the racial tension, prejudice, and hate shouted liberally in every direction. (Each magic series has its own word for average human and in this series the term was "nump" and honestly, in this book I got irritated with the word fast). From the prejudice of the Kymerians over the Sufference when witches were burned at the stake that still lingers with them through to the modern age, to the hostility of the humans who don't like having such odd neighbors camping in the middle of their city, to the skin-head group The Sons of Adam who start inflicting brutal beatings and murders every chance they get. But I still dearly love Hexe. He's a very well-crafted character with his purple hair, six fingers on each hand, love of wearing dragon pat... moretered robes in the morning and T-shirts and ratted jeans in the day, and truly odd diet. And Tate is a wonderful viewpoint to follow. She has bravery (though some times stupidity for running head-long into situations), and she's willing to use what's around her (like her welding equipment) to defend herself regardless if she's magically out-classed, not to mention she looks beyond the differences in the magical creatures surrounding her and just sees them as people. Not to mention that this series is chock full of magic, magical creatures, and something surprising around every corner, while still being rooted in New York City. The series is quite a bit like Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series, but without the hard-boiled detective aspect.
review 2: Whew what happened here? The world building from book one intrigued me, but now that it's built it appears to be falling down. The whole riots against paranormals thing is an interesting idea and all, but when the main characters are so fluffy and non important I don't really care. If the book was serious and compelling then riots and racism works, when it's about going out for drinks at 1pm and random sex between the two main characters it's not such a great idea. Since the whole riot thing is the entire plot of the book I wasn't able to make it too far into this one before rolling my eyes and returning it to the library. I even incurred some late fees to keep this longer, sad. less

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