“Other people had lipstick-smeared tissues in their trash. Or empty nail polish bottles. Or napkins with cute guy’s phone numbers scribbled on them.
What did I have?
A dead, possibly time-travelling fish.”
Reap The Wind by Karen Chance
Just another day in the life of your friendly neighbourhood Pythia and Karen Chance excels in the little moments like this. Throughout the series her heroine, Cassie Palmer (a time-travelling seer and recent leader of the supernatural world) struggles to balance her numerous commitments with the reality of a life constantly on the run. Her life runs at a mile a minute and so do these books, leaving very little time for a breather.
There’s a wonderful cast of characters, however, that only seems to grow as the books progress, all with their own distinct personalities that you can feel whether given a few pages or a few chapters. 8 books in the sprawling story can sometimes seem a little overwhelming with Cassie constantly being drawn into so many subplots that the main story lines can seem to make little progress.
So long as you have the patience and desire to commit to a long series and enjoy a bit of delayed gratification though, you will be amply rewarded. Very little happens without reason, despite so very much seeming to happen all the time and Chance manages the time-travel shenanigans with great care so that however confused you may be, you feel the author has a solid understanding of how events fit together.
I’ve been following this series for a decade now and I’m enjoying them just as much as ever. With at least two more due to be published in the next couple of years, I can’t recommend this series highly enough. Get stuck in and be prepared to be thoroughly sucked into an engrossing and magical world of witches, weres, fae and vampires.
If I could go back in time and reading them all over again – I would 🙂
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