lightreads: a partial image of a etymology tree for the Indo-European word 'leuk done in white neon on black'; in the lower left is (Default)
lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote2023-06-24 09:44 am

San Amaro Investigations by Kai Butler

Wormwood Summer and five more

3/5. M/M urban fantasy series about the fae PI (of course he’s a PI) and the human cop (of course he’s a cop).

These were my unpacking books. I read six of them in, like, a week. The astute may note that this is a seven book series, and that the final book just came out. And it’s not that these books are bad – they’re workmanlike – but that I’m done with the major unpacking so I don’t need them anymore, and they aren’t good enough to make the effort for the last book.

Fun popcorn books with all the expected cliches exactly where you want them – family secrets, powers leveling up, relationship drama, all that stuff. They don’t ever rise beyond competent, but that’s okay.

Content notes: Past child abandonment/foster care/loss of parent, violence, some peripherally messy stuff about compulsion magic