Roadside Magic
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow returns to dark fantasy with the second novel in her Gallow & Ragged series where the faery world inhabits diners, dive bars and trailer parks.
Robin Ragged has revenge to wreak and redemption to steal. As for Jeremy Gallow, the poison in his wound is slowly killing him, while old friends turn traitor and long-lost enemies return to haunt him.
In the dive bars and trailer parks, the sidhe are hunting. War looms, and on a rooftop in the heart of the city, the most dangerous sidhe of all is given new life. He has only one thought, this new hunter: Where is the Ragged?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
