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Ever wake up floating above the fiercest lord in all of Faerie, bodiless, as he is being commanded to kill you? Kind of puts a damper on things—especially when you don’t know where the hell your body went.
Getting through a day without being attacked by Fairy assassins, mages or demons was becoming a rarity for Dalton Graham. Today was no exception. Ever since he had faced down the youngest scion of House Temil, using magical powers he never knew he possessed, things had gone from bad to worse.
His college crush’s younger sister, Kitzu, had been abducted by a mysterious Fairy sorcerer, and Umi couldn’t accompany Dalt to try and rescue her, since she was now the Guardian of Kyoto, and bound to that place.
The Sensitive whose help he was relying on to discover the identity of the kidnapper, was in a city whose magical adepts were being slaughtered by a creature hell-bent on harvesting their organs. Add in a Filipina siren with powers which were barely under control, a British mage with sticky fingers, and a witch with a demon on her string and you have all the ingredients to make Dalt’s worst day ever.
Murder, Mayhem and Magic
College prepares you for many things, and the Army even more, but neither prepared Dalton Graham for the murder that occurred across the hall, or the fact that he was its intended victim.
Assailed and assaulted by inhuman, magic wielding fairies who want nothing more than his death–he goes on the run, protected by the mysterious and lethal Umi Nitaku, who is equal parts shy stranger and beautiful angel of death.
As they flee from one danger to another, he begins to discover the arcane ability that is his birthright, and the reason why it has entire houses of the Eloim united against him.
He will need all his courage and cunning if he is to avoid a violent death and a shallow grave.
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I loved this book. It was cool that the setting wasn’t the same as every other book. It was nice in an urban fantasy it took place on a college campus, in the desert, in worlds outside our own, in the Philippines and then in Japan. Its obvious the author either has experienced these places or done a lot of research. It made the world seem bigger and smaller all at the same time. I liked the main character, but I LOVED Umi. There was a lot going on with her. I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book.
Man was this book a reader’s joyride or what? Its like someone took a really good alternate world tale, a lost prince yarn, a coming of age story, and an old mystical ninja movie, and threw them in a blender with the TV show Deadly Class and out came a book that just kicked ass. I kept checking my completion rate as I read because I just didn’t want it to get done. Read it. Its not Tolstoy—but I wouldn’t have read it if it was.
The author put a lot of work into this, detailed world-building and likeable characters. He also imbued the MC with a witty sense of humor in his thoughts even as he is confronted with the most ghastly situations.A thoroughly enjoyable read that has me looking forward to Volume 2!!
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