Moonshine
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- £3.99
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
Nominated for the 2019 Endeavour Award.
Daisy's starting a new job and stylish city life, but mage-hunters out for her dark magic threaten to destroy her vogue image.
In the flourishing metropolis of Soot City (a warped version of 1920s Chicago), progressive ideals reign and the old ways of magic and liquid mana are forbidden. Daisy Dell is a Modern Girl – stylish, educated and independent – keen to establish herself in the city but reluctant to give up the taboo magic inherited from her grandmother.
Her new job takes her to unexpected places, and she gets more attention than she had hoped for. When bounty hunters start combing the city for magicians, Daisy must decide whether to stay with her new employer – even if it means revealing the grim source of her occult powers.
File Under: Fantasy
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In Ashland's Soot City, "settled in a terrain of lava beds and dusty woods," stylish modern girl (think flapper) Daisy Dell explores magic and her newfound independence in Gower's meandering, Jazz Age flavored fantasy debut. Daisy, fresh out of women's college, is thrilled to land a job at Stripes Management. It's soon revealed that Stripes is a front for a speakeasy that manufactures mana, the addictive, outlawed substance necessary to keep magicians' bodies balanced while practicing magic. Enjoying the nightlife with her coworkers is fun, but when a hit woman is hired by a corrupt politician to take down a magician any magician she targets Daisy, who possesses enchanted charms given to her by her grandmother that rely on faerie magic and blood sacrifice. Daisy will need her wits and her new friends to survive. Gower's effortless depictions of queer characters is refreshing, the world is intriguing, and the climactic brawl is gloriously wild, but this frothy concoction never lets readers get too close to its large cast of characters. Hopefully readers will get to know Daisy and co. better in future installments.
