Roadside Magic
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
The Seelie and Unseelie Courts are both in plague-ravaged tatters. The Wild Hunt roams unchecked, taking who and what it will, and the walls between the human world and the world of the sidhe are thinning rapidly. Jeremy Gallow is the only hope of human and sidhe both.
But all Gallow wants to do is find Robin Ragged . . . and survive. Unfortunately, everyone who meets him has other plans. Including the Ragged, who is fleeing for her life - and the King of Unwinter, whose poisoned blade has cut deep into Jeremy's flesh . . .
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Saintcrow's second Gallow & Ragged urban fantasy (after Trailer Park Fae) uses lush, striking prose to disguise a slow story. The entire book is about people chasing and fleeing from one another, and most of them wind up where they started. Robin Ragged, who's half-human and half-Sidhe, discovered the true origin of the disease plaguing the Sidhe's Summer Court. Now she's on the run from both the Queen of Summer and the Lord of Unwinter. After an unpleasant confrontation with conniving near-feral trickster Robin Goodfellow, she retreats. She's pursued by her former brother-in-law, the half-Sidhe Jeremiah Gallow, who wants to protect her, and the scarred Huntsman Alastair Creen, an agent of the queen. Gallow is also being hunted by agents of Unwinter, who want the lord's horn back. The language is gorgeously evocative ("He was no more than a bow upon an instrument's strings, drawing back and forth to sing a cacophony of shattered bone and split flesh"), but there's painfully little character development. Those already invested in the series may be the most intrigued.
