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Owl and the Japanese Circus
by Kristi Charish
3.5 stars, rounded up because I'm nice like that.
I really had a good time with this book -- Owl knows her shit but she's not perfect by any means, in fact a lot of things that happen in the book are because she screwed something or other up. She deals with supernatural creatures ranging from dragons to nagas to vampires to nymphs, all while trying to figure out an ancient puzzle (and some intense gaming on the side when she hits a roadblock). She has a sassy cat and even sassier best friend, and a love interest I was actually on board with (score one for urban fantasies). Some of the misdirection may have been a tad predictable, but I enjoyed the hell out of this book.
The one thing I didn't like was the (sometimes copious) amount of spelling and grammatical errors. They seemed to pick up somewhere around the halfway point or so, and ranged from a letter missing to a completely different word in place of the word that should have been used -- I would cite examples but it's 10:30 at night and I'm tired and lazy and don't want to nitpick about stupid little things that got on my nerves.
Regardless of the mistakes (which really ought to be chalked up to an editor who was asleep on the job), I'm definitely looking forward to picking up the second book!
I really had a good time with this book -- Owl knows her shit but she's not perfect by any means, in fact a lot of things that happen in the book are because she screwed something or other up. She deals with supernatural creatures ranging from dragons to nagas to vampires to nymphs, all while trying to figure out an ancient puzzle (and some intense gaming on the side when she hits a roadblock). She has a sassy cat and even sassier best friend, and a love interest I was actually on board with (score one for urban fantasies). Some of the misdirection may have been a tad predictable, but I enjoyed the hell out of this book.
The one thing I didn't like was the (sometimes copious) amount of spelling and grammatical errors. They seemed to pick up somewhere around the halfway point or so, and ranged from a letter missing to a completely different word in place of the word that should have been used -- I would cite examples but it's 10:30 at night and I'm tired and lazy and don't want to nitpick about stupid little things that got on my nerves.
Regardless of the mistakes (which really ought to be chalked up to an editor who was asleep on the job), I'm definitely looking forward to picking up the second book!