Blood Engines (Marla Mason, Book 1)
by T.A. Pratt
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Author: T.A. PrattEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-25
ISBN: 0553589989
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Spectra
Book Reviews of Blood Engines (Marla Mason, Book 1)
Book Review: Vibrant and enchanting, a magic carpet ride through the infinite beauty of fantasy
Summary: 5 Stars
From time to time I adore a crackling, witty and totally enchanting urban fantasy. This was my first time reading this author, and he came highly recommended by Kim Harrison on various sites so I knew it had to be good, she's one of my all time favorite authors and her word counts. The book delivers on many levels; its wild, colorful, crazy things are happening non stop, it has magic but best of all it has sorcerers that spew out sarcastic and hilarious dialogue that had me hopping through the book, their words were even better than their spells.
The story is about a sorcerer who's in trouble; Marla Mason escapes her own city of Felport and travels to very interesting and funky San Francisco to find an object that can save her. Needles to say, she gets into more trouble than she's trying to prevent and many dangerous encounters await her, mainly some poisonous frogs, killer hummingbirds, all sorts of Gods and wizards, cannibals and even an adult party stands in her way of finding the cornerstone, an artifact that can help save her from another powerful spell. Too bad that her only contact in San Francisco is dead and her only way to find the object is to launch a journey through the new city and find out why sorcerers there are being targeted and killed as a strange plot involving raising something old and hungry untangles, it seems that the object she seeks is also needed by someone or something that stands behind all the killing.
Armed with an alien cloak that turns her into a deadly opponent, but robs her of her humanity every time she wear is, she travels with her companion Rondeau picking up friends and a nemesis or two, or three on a journey that was as fun as it was colorful and I can't wait to read the rest of the series, if it's as good as this book then it will be one heck of a ride.
- Kasia S.
Summary of Blood Engines (Marla Mason, Book 1)
Meet Marla Mason?smart, saucy, slightly wicked witch of the East Coast.?Sorcerer Marla Mason, small-time guardian of the city of Felport, has a big problem. A rival is preparing a powerful spell that could end Marla?s life?and, even worse, wreck her city. Marla?s only chance of survival is to boost her powers with the Cornerstone, a magical artifact hidden somewhere in San Francisco. But when she arrives there, Marla finds that the quest isn?t going to be quite as cut-and-dried as she expected?and that some of the people she needs to talk to are dead. It seems that San Francisco?s top sorcerers are having troubles of their own?a mysterious assailant has the city?s magical community in a panic, and the local talent is being (gruesomely) picked off one by one.
With her partner-in-crime, Rondeau, Marla is soon racing against time through San Francisco?s alien streets, dodging poisonous frogs, murderous hummingbirds, cannibals, and a nasty vibe from the local witchery, who suspect that Marla herself may be behind the recent murders. And if Marla doesn?t figure out who is killing the city?s finest in time, she?ll be in danger of becoming a magical statistic herself.?
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