My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Content: Strong Language
On the streets of Boston, the world is divided
into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the
Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite,
government-sanctioned witches with spells at their command and all the
power and prestige that comes with it. Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby
is...not one of those witches.
After flunking out of the Auditor
training program and being dismissed as "not Department material,"
Grimsby tried to resign himself to life as a mediocre witch. But he
can't help hoping he'll somehow, someway, get another chance to prove
his skill. That opportunity comes with a price when his former mentor,
aka the most dangerous witch alive, is murdered down the street from
where he works, and Grimsby is the Auditors' number one suspect.
Proving
his innocence will require more than a little legwork, and after
forming a strange alliance with the retired legend known as the Huntsman
and a mysterious being from Elsewhere, Grimsby is abruptly thrown into a
life of adventure, whether he wants it or not. Now all he has to do is
find the real killer, avoid the Auditors on his trail, and most
importantly, stay alive.
I've had this on my to-read list for a long time so I was happy to finally get to read it. I was really interested to see how Jim Butcher's son would write an urban fantasy. For the most part I enjoyed this. At times I thought some of the descriptions were unnecessarily detailed or things were oddly described. I'm almost done with book two at this point and there's one part where instead of just calling a keyboard a keyboard, it's referred to as a board of keys, which I thought was weird. So the writing could use some improvement, but these are the author's first books, so I can cut him some slack.
I think it has a lot of potential to turn into a series I could love. I like the world the author has created here. I have contradicting feelings about some of the characters. The familiars are off putting, yet weirdly facinating. Wudge is selfish and mean but lovable at the same time. Mayflower is prickly as a cactus but somehow I still like him. Grimsby was a little weak for a main character at first but he grew and that's what matters. I'm going to continue with this series to see where it goes.
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