Connolly, Harry -- Child of Fire
New urban fantasy (but not romance) series. There is magic out there;
and it's a really bad idea. If your power doesn't come directly from
the world-devouring extradimensional demons, it's liable to attract
their attention. Therefore, the Twenty Palaces Society go out looking
for nascent magicians -- and shut them down. Hard. They are not nice
people. The protagonist in this book is not a wizard, although he has
a couple of tricks; he's the henchman, or hench-stalking-horse, of a
shit-scary Twenty Palaces operative. She's a sociopathic goal-obsessed
magic hunter; he's a chauffeur with "expendable" tattooed on his
forehead; they fight crime^H^H^H^H^H demons! This is a great start for
a series; both the main characters and the small-town multi-sided
old-bad-blood drama they stumble into get a lot of depth, and the
demons (and other nasties) are satisfactorially awful. Yes, I'm
including the scary wizard lady in with "nasties", and yet we see
where she's coming from as well. I look forward to learning more about
the Society.
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