Product Description
First in a new urban fantasy series-with a bite as magical as its bark. Mason used to be an enforcer, ensuring that suspect magic practitioners stayed in line. But now he scrapes out a living playing guitar. Good thing he has Louie, his magical…well, let’s call him a dog. But there are some kinds of evil thateven Louie can’t sniff out. And when Mason is attacked by a supernatural assailant, he’ll have to fall back on the one skill he’s mastered in music and magic-improvisation…. More >>
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This book stinks on ice. From the book cover, I thought this was a book about a radioactive dog, but it was nothing of the sort!
Rating: 1 / 5
I really enjoyed this book! I love the intertwining of magic and present world. I could easily relate to the character and his relationships. I’m really looking forward to reading more from this author.
Rating: 5 / 5
I really loved this book! It was the most entertaining book I have read for a long time. I liked the depth and individuality of each of the characters as well as the intertwining of magic and the real world, real people.
Even though it was a entertaining and charming book to read the story itself was very compelling. It drew me in- I couldn’t wait to see what would happen next.
I am looking forward to the sequel! I would definitely recommend this book to my friends.
Rating: 5 / 5
A nice book with some unexpected twists from a new author. I really enjoyed the way the universe was set up. It made it easy to identify with the world in the book.
Rating: 4 / 5
Once Mason worked with other magic practitioners to police their own but he soon got tired of that and started playing guitar for a jazz band in San Francisco that needed a performer. He has Lou-, a semi-supernatural being called an ifret that looks like a wolf-dog who became attached to him and his music so he was reasonably content. One night after a gig, while walking to his car, a creature from a mural leaves the painting and attacks mason.
Mason defeats the creature and soon finds himself in a realm exactly like his own only without people. He finds red jewels there and with the help of his wolf totem, he escapes. Powerful mages Eli and Victor tell him there is something wrong magically in the area. One of their own was killed in what mortals believe was a hit and run. They come to the conclusion that a powerful magician is siphoning the power from other practitioners and Mason who saw the mage’s aura knows who he is. It will come down to him and Mason in a magical duel in which the guitarist knows that he must improvise or lose, which means the evil magician will have an open gig.
John Levitt has written an entertaining urban fantasy that is reminiscent of the Harry Dresden novels. The protagonist is powerful but is too impatient to be trained properly so he has to improvise which results in unusual magical solutions to counteract the spells sent against him. His dog Lou comprehends what he says and stays with him out of love as he steals much of the show with a superstar performance. The antagonist is so warped and crazy and what he is doing to get the jewels is so repugnant, readers will love to hate him while loving his opponent.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5 / 5