Spiral Hunt by Margaret Ronald

Spiral Hunt by Margaret Ronald


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Disclosure: The author is a friend. And an adorable drunk.

Yay, it's Maggie's first book! Noirish paranormal mystery with Irish mythology, set in Boston. First-person female narrator, cool magic powers, you know the sort of thing.

Things I liked: Boston – this book has an excellent sense of place, and it made me want to spend more time there, maybe even sober this time. Female friendships, which make up a lot of the tension in the book, and these relationships are not about men and are about women dealing and taking names, and men respecting their strengths and decisions. The magic system and myth source make a nice change from your standard issue urban fantasy, and the last third of the book is a sprint of magic and action and a bunch of cool shit ™.

Things I thought were meh: It takes a while to rev up, and the plot depends at a few junctures on coincidence in that first novel way, you know? But my chief problem is the protagonist, because aside from her unusual magical attributes, she didn't really distinguish herself in my head from the other dozen tough loner urban fantasy heroines I've met recently. But that's what a series is for, I suppose, and I think this one is heading very good places.

Go buy Maggie's book!

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