A talking cat who loves craft beers, picket lines, and duping and 'shooting' people. But being a white witch is not as easy as they portray it in the books, and she's already been placed under 'house arrest' with a letch named Stan, a co-worker who wronged her in the past and now exists in the form of a cat. This terrifying (and yet somehow vaguely familiar) terrain is explored via Eleanor - a young woman eagerly learning about the gifts of her magic through the support of her coven. In this society, paranoia is well-suited because eyes and ears are all around, and they are judging. In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just declared itself its own country. A genre-blending story of modern witchcraft, a police state and WTF characters, for fans of Alice Hoffman and Madeline Miller.
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After my binge re-read of Darkness, Collector and Lightness series, I was ready to start the next series from this world but fast forward to the future. I’ve been wanting to get to this series for a while, but just haven’t had the time. Brexley can’t deny an intense draw to him, one that might cost her life.Ī fight to the death where only one survives. He is as brutal, cruel, arrogant, and as lethal as the lore says he is, ruling the prison with unchallenged authority. Here she meets the sexy, vicious legend, Warwick Farkas. The rule of hierarchy puts humans on the bottom, where the only way to survive each day is to make alliances with the fae. She must learn to live with the worst of fae and human criminals. Halalhaz, the House of Death-where you go in but don’t come out. Then one night the course of her life changes, and Brexley is thrown into the most feared prison in the east. After being orphaned, she is taken in by General Markos, living in a walled city rife with power grabs and ruthless political games. Nineteen-year-old human, Brexley, has grown up in privilege, but not without heartbreak. The prejudice between the sides is bubbling with hate and violence. A battle for dominance is brewing between the elite fae and the privileged humans in Eastern Europe. Almost twenty years after the barrier between Earth and the Otherworld fell in the Fae Wars, Budapest is balancing on the precipice. |