Spiral hunt
Ratings2
Average rating3.5
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
"They call her 'Hound,' and with her unique supernatural sense Evie can track nearly anything, lost keys, vanished family heirlooms, even missing people. And though she knows to stay out of the magical undercurrent that runs beneath Boston's historic streets, a midnight phone call from a long-vanished lover will destroy the careful boundaries she has drawn. Now, to pay a years-old debt, Evie must venture into the shadowy world that lies between myth and reality, where she will find betrayal, conspiracies, and revelations that will shatter all she believes about herself and the city she claims as home. When the Hunt is on, the Hound must run."--P. [4] of cover.
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Evie has a unique super-national sense of smell and can track down almost anything from missing keys to missing people. Boston has a magical underground, which Evie has stayed out of until a midnight phone call from a long vanished lover. To find the missing lover she is pulled into the secret world of magic by betrayal, and conspiracies. For the first time Evie is being hunted.
The character Evie, AKA Hound, was an intriguing first person protagonist. Nice world building, especially Boston's setting came alive from the page with a great use of Sox baseball and magic Celtic mythology. The plot starts off going in all different directions but the writing is thigh enough where you know this will all lead into one direction but mystery enough where you don't know how it will fold together. The plot moves steady until the end where it slows down, which makes it difficult to pick up the book. There were a few confusing paragraphs where senses and settings seemed to jump. Example, leave someone sleeping and walk ahead but next paragraph they are both exiting together.
Think it's great first attempt to a new series. Don't know if I'll pick up the second in the series.
I did receive this book copy for free from New York Comic Con.
