Burning Bridges
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The Cosa Nostradamus is falling apart….
Wren's got enough on her plate right now, thank you very much, trying to stop her partner Sergei from self-destructing. But attacks against the non-human Fatae have escalated into hate crimes against all members of the Cosa - humans included. With the Mage Council distracted by internal struggles, the Talented and Fatae communities form a fragile alliance….with Wren and the demon P.B. at the heart of it.
But to protect themselves, they're going to have to do something drastic, something that will change the city forever…
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At the start of Gilman's convoluted but diverting fourth Retrievers fantasy (after 2006's Bring It On), set in a near-future Manhattan, Wren Valere, a professional thief with magical "Talent," and her demon sidekick, P.B., discover the brutalized corpse of an angel. The gutted angel, or winged nonhuman "fatae," turns out to be just one casualty in a heated conflict between Nulls (humans without Talent) and the powerful human Talents, along with the fatae. Not only are bigoted human vigilantes going after supernaturals, but it appears the Silence, a covert organization that used to employee Wren's partner and lover, Sergei Didier, has become corrupted from within. Several Silence Talent operatives have gone missing, and Sergei is drawn back into the group's politics as a new truce falls apart. Though newcomers to the series might find the plot and multiple cabals a little confusing with the spy stuff a little too derivative of TV's Alias and not enough fey Wren's can-do magic is highly appealing.
