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The Janus Elixir (The Strange Cases of Beaumont and Beasley, #1) by Kyle Robert Shultz

ebdawson's review

4.0

As always, this story was very well written and full of wit and charm. I had a bit of trouble settling in, though. Shultz has packed an impressive amount of world-building, action, and mythology into this novella, and it's a testament to his skills as an author. It might help to go into this one thinking of it like a TV episode rather than a movie. It is the first of six novellas that are all connected into a single arc, and will eventually be combined into a book. For that reason, although there is an ending to this story, there is a lot left unresolved. It really feels like the preamble to the other novellas.

I very much enjoyed the grumpy dragon archaeologist threatening to eat everyone all the time. I'm looking forward to seeing where this adventure goes next and hopefully getting some answers to some of our questions (*cough MELODY *cough).