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Loading... Spellbent (original 2009; edition 2009)by Lucy A. Snyder
Work InformationSpellbent by Lucy A. Snyder (2009)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. And you thought Harry Dresden had bad luck... The only book I'd read by Lucy Snyder before this was Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, which was geeky fun but a bit dry and awkward. This is much more polished, a solidly innovative start to an urban fantasy series. I'm about to start the second book, and I've got the third ordered.
I'm a sucker for kick-ass heroines, and Snyder has a talent for binding a reader into a story until, at the end, you just don't want to let go. AwardsDistinctions
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Romance.
HTML:In the heart of Ohio, Jessie Shimmer is caught up in hot, magic-drenched passion with her roguish lover, Cooper Marron, who is teaching her how to tap her supernatural powers. When they try to break a drought by calling down a rainstorm, a hellish portal opens and Cooper is ripped from this world, leaving Jessie fighting for her life against a vicious demon that's been unleashed. In the aftermath, Jessie, who knows so little about her own true nature, is branded an outlaw. She must survive by her wits and with the help of her familiar, a ferret named Palimpsest. Stalked by malevolent enemies, Jessie is determined to find out what happened to Cooper. But when she moves heaven and earth to find her man, she'll be shocked by what she discoversâ??and by what she must ultimately do to save them a No library descriptions found. |
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Premise wise, SPELLBENT worked as a good start up to Lucy's new series. I'm a sucker for novels that have a girl going all-out to save her lover, and the book doesn't disappoint on this. Jessie is tough and ballsy and powerful. She's also a resourceful person who knows more ways to screw a person using what she can find in the average trash can than anyone else I've read about. Sometimes her spells verged on the too much information side, and I didn't really need to know what one could do with a maxi-pad.
Yet, through it all, Jessie remains vague. Not her intentions or motivation, but more who she is. The fight against the demon went badly the first time, and that's when there was two of them, so why is she so set on going another round? I'm all for flying by the seat of your pants, but when another option is given—a much more reasonable one, where the chances at succeeding are higher--shouldn't she have paused to think?
In the end, SPELLBENT didn't satisfy my curiosity and left me with more nagging questions than is healthy. The next book, SHOTGUN SORCERESS, is due out in the fall, so maybe more answers will be given then. ( )