May 05, 2010
SciFi/Fantasy: Magic on the Storm, by Devon Monk
Fourth in a series. Definitely in my top five current fantasy series (along with the Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson books and the almost-completed Robert Jordan Wheel of Time books...I'd have have to walk to a different room to look at a different bookshelf to pin down the rest...).
This has a lot of the good stuff of the previous three books, as well as widening the list of characters I cared about, filling in some of the folks who were broader strokes in books past (Shamus in particular). There continues to be a LOT about blood magic that we don't really know its longlasting effects. Lots of great fighting (magic and otherwise). And a freakalicious ending that is NOT going to keep me patient until the next one comes out in November (YAY SO SOON!).
Allie and Zayvion continue to have a sexy yet more than that relationship. The imagery describing Zayvion in a certain fight at a certain point in this book...is just so so cool. And I do dearly love Stone. (FYI you can knit your own Stone should you wish to. Although in the books he is a LOT BIGGER than that.)
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