Wild Magic
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- 7,99 €
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- 7,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Everyone is cursed.
Professional Curse-Breaker Rudy Renfrew lives one step ahead of eviction in Glasgow. He's a man about town, equally as connected to the university as he is the homeless community. He lives and works in the city with one foot in the peripheries, the magic-touched otherworld where ghosts and deities dwell. It's a path he's become familiar with, even if few people walk it.
When he's hired to find a missing teenage girl, however, he soon finds himself facing things he never has before. Curses more vicious than anything he's seen are cropping up around the city, all showing signs of malicious intent. Even with help from his lawyer friend, his roommate's fascinating one-night stand, and the god of the subway, Rudy can't find answers in Glasgow.
To save the girl and his home, he'll have to venture outside his beloved city into a world of magic far more chaotic and untamed than the one he knows. Even if he can harness the magic of the wilds in time, the evil presence over Glasgow may be too much for a lone Curse-Breaker to handle.
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The search for both identity and magic propels Ledger's entertaining if slightly disjointed debut fantasy. Queer warlock Rudy Renfew makes his living as the only Curse-Breaker in Glasgow, answering to the local deity Clockwork Man, "the god of the subway and city centre." When Laura Baxter asks for Rudy's help finding her missing sister, Leigh-Anne, he agrees despite the job being well outside of his usual purview. His investigation takes him to the wilderness surrounding Loch Lomond, where he discovers a thriving community with a strange power. The magic system fascinates with its close ties to Scottish mysticism, but how it works—especially how the gods fit into this world—is never fully made clear. As Rudy inches closer to his mission's end, the initial excitement of the mystery wears off as the investigation, the fantasy elements, and a budding romance for Rudy jarringly mix, and he finds Leigh Anne safely ensconced among Loch Lomond's magic practitioners. Ledger makes up for this apparent anticlimax with a clever last-minute twist. Readers of folkloric fantasy will have plenty of fun with this one, as long as they don't think too hard about the jumbled details.
