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I got this as part of the ebook Humble Bundle. I bought it because of a couple other books but I have been happy overall.
I like urban realism when it is done well, and it rarely is these days. Usually it's full of erotic vampires, fairies stuck in, someone getting sucked into the world, and people have explicit sex. This book, however, is one that does it well.
This book does a good job of building up a mystery of why some people are paired with animals (though no one really knows why) and this is secondary to the actual mystery of the book. I don't want to explain more of the plot, but in the end, it's a simple missing person's story but it's also tangled up in the mythos of the world that is built.
So why only 3 stars? Because I liked the story, but not the asides. After a while, I figured out that the asides were important to understanding the world and, frankly, in the motivation of the protagonists. The character of Zinzi was great, as well the people around her.
I like urban realism when it is done well, and it rarely is these days. Usually it's full of erotic vampires, fairies stuck in, someone getting sucked into the world, and people have explicit sex. This book, however, is one that does it well.
This book does a good job of building up a mystery of why some people are paired with animals (though no one really knows why) and this is secondary to the actual mystery of the book. I don't want to explain more of the plot, but in the end, it's a simple missing person's story but it's also tangled up in the mythos of the world that is built.
So why only 3 stars? Because I liked the story, but not the asides. After a while, I figured out that the asides were important to understanding the world and, frankly, in the motivation of the protagonists. The character of Zinzi was great, as well the people around her.