Friday, April 14, 2017

Something Like Magic by Max C. Payne


John Cunningham is a private investigator looking into the disappearance of his friend's son, but he hits a roadblock because there's no evidence and the perpetrators are thought to have used magic. For assistance, he's pointed to magical consultant Orion Kensington, and asks for his help despite John's bad history with magic and reluctance to have anything to do with it.

But as the case grows more dangerous, and his unexpected attraction to Orion stronger, John soon realizes it's his own reluctance and hesitation that might get them killed long before magic and demons do it.

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My Review:     (Thanks to NetGalley) 

For the love of all things holy, if you are going to introduce an original, magically diverse 'world' don't throw a couple of snipets out there and then refuse to explain/flesh out anything else!

For instance, "I'd had no idea there were so many different types of supernatural with varying differences in their magic and what they could do with it. The list had sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards separate from witches, thought my thinking was that they were basically the same... Except for sorcerers, those I knew ran toward special from normal witches." 

And that was it. No more explanations except for some really bad ones about Orion's 'Magic'.
There was more clothing descriptions than magic ones. 

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