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Loading... Hard magic (edition 2010)by Laura Anne Gilman
Work InformationHard Magic by Laura Anne Gilman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Interesting world. Complex characters - they keep acting out quirks and then showing considerably greater depth. Though why did they do a housewarming on her place and not on any of theirs? Does Bonita know any of their homes? The idea of...sort of inventing private investigators from scratch, and inventing all the (magical) tools they'll need to do the job, is an interesting one. Some of the consequences - from Will to the boy - are clearly going to have long-term effects. Bonnie's obsession with sex is kind of boring - this and that and the other guy are "hot" and it distracts her. But it got woven into the story, which made it less of a side matter. I didn't love the story, or any of the characters, but I am interested and want to read the next - and also the Retrievers series which is in the same universe. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: Welcome to P.U.P.I.--Private, Unaffiliated, Paranormal Investigations A handpicked team trained to solve crimes the regular police can't touch--crimes of magic. My name's Bonnie Torres. Recent college grad, magic user and severely unemployed. Until I got a call out of nowhere to interview for a job I hadn't applied for. It smelled fishy, but the brutal truth was I needed the work--so off I went. Two days later I'm a PUPI--me and Nick, Sharon, Nifty and Pietr. Five twentysomethings, thrown into an entirely new career in forensic magic. The first job we get is a doozy: proving that the deaths of two Talents were murder, not suicide. Worse, there are high-profile people who want us to close up shop and go away. We're sniffing out things they'd rather keep buried. Looks as if this job is gonna get interesting. The only problem is, we're making it up as we go along.... No library descriptions found. |
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Bonita just finished university, and her first, and only, job offer is as part of a new organisation inventing and providing magical forensics.
Good worldbuilding, and the way New York itself is almost a character of its own makes me wish for something more - like [rivers of london] or the Matthew Swift books. Bonitas continuous focus on her sexual desires for a lot of the people she meets becomes a little boring, but then again, it is refreshing with an openly bisexual protagonist. Good thing the author didn’t include any actual sexscenes in the book, I would have found them excerdingly tedius.
Very entertaining, and kept me reading. Popcorn style. ( )