Evocation

I received and Audio ARC thanks to NetGalley and Tantor Audio. The opinions expressed are my own. 

This book is the start of a new series about a trio of magic users in Boston. When David starts experiencing odd episodes related to his magic, he reaches out to Rhys, his estranged ex-boyfriend and rival in the local occult society. Rhys and Moira try to help him figure out what's going on and how to make it stop. Also Rhys and David resume their romantic relationship with Moira's full awareness and permission and David and Moira become friends. 

This book was... not for me.  It was more of a polyamorous paranormal romance than urban fantasy with romantic elements. Which would have been fine if the romance was well done. There was a lot of telling rather than showing.  At one point Moira is telling Rhys information about polyamory from a book. David was described as charming but came off fairly unlikable to me. Your mileage may vary. 

The fantasy/occult elements often felt like an afterthought and the three main characters bumbled around, not finding the right information, ignoring a valuable source of information until very late in the book. And the “solution” to the problem was to transfer and delay the “bad thing” for a ?few months, maybe. 

Oscar Reyes, the narrator was fine. I sometimes lost track of whether we were in David's or Rhys' POV, but that may have been because the story wasn't holding my interest. 

Others might like it more, but again, not for me.