There are some cool magical items, too, and the author wisely dodges the Q trap (where every single one of them turns out to be the only thing that will save James Bond at some key moment of the plot) some of them are simply cool rather than being at all useful. Marla is lacking in empathy, violent, and amoral the protagonist of this book is intensely empathetic, and her rejection of the easy, violent solution gives us an ending that I found fresh, unexpected, and extremely satisfying.Īlso, there’s a mysterious magical house, and for some reason I love mysterious magical houses.

I stopped reading that series because it is so completely unlike this. Pratt) he’s the author of the Marla Mason series. I was surprised, when I read the back matter, to discover that (as T.A. But I was vaguely aware of the name “Tim Pratt” – I think I’ve read one or two of his short stories – and paused long enough on this one to get the sample and see if he wrote it well. There are hundreds of authors writing that exact book at the moment, many of them very badly and when I see an instance of it, I usually move on, sometimes with an eyeroll, to the next book in the hope of something I haven’t seen dozens of times before.

Independent, modern young woman narrates, in First Person Smart*ss, how she was just an ordinary person with an ordinary life who didn’t believe in the supernatural, but then it turned out that the supernatural believed in her, and around about the same time she met this guy… All episodes are now available for immediate download as a complete book. This book was initially released in episodes as a Kindle Serial. Heirs of Grace is a tale of family and magic, action and wonder, blending the strong heroine, cheeky humor, and dark fantasy that have become the hallmarks of Tim Pratt’s writing. As Bekah discovers more about her mysterious benefactor and the magical world he inhabited, she’s realizes that as tough and resourceful as she is, she might just be in over her head… More important, the junk in her new house is magical, she’s surrounded by monsters, and her life seems to be in mortal peril every time she ventures into a new room. Problem is, the house is full of junk…and siblings she didn’t know she had are willing to kill her for it. Bekah expected a pleasant year to get her head together and have a romantic fling. Trey Howard, the lawyer who handled the estate, is a handsome man in his twenties and they hit it off right away-and soon become more than friends. Recent art school graduate Bekah thought she’d hit the jackpot: an unknown relative died, and she inherited a small fortune and a huge house in the mountains of North Carolina.

Heirs of Grace by Tim Pratt