Devon Monk
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 355 pages Rating: 3.65 | 12544 Users | 826 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Magic to the Bone |
| ISBN: | 0451462408 (ISBN13: 9780451462404) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Allie Beckstrom #1 |
| Characters: | Allie Beckstrom, Zayvion Jones |
| Setting: | Portland, Oregon(United States) |
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Allie would rather moonlight as a Hound than accept the family fortune - and the strings that come with it. All magic use has costs -- hers include migraines and memory loss. She finds a boy dying from a magic Offload with her father's signature, then her father is murdered. Allie's search for the truth calls on her country friend and the handsome man originally assigned as her bodyguard. Someone is forging magic signatures -- and hers is on her dead father.Details Of Books Magic to the Bone (Allie Beckstrom #1)
| Title | : | Magic to the Bone (Allie Beckstrom #1) |
| Author | : | Devon Monk |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 355 pages |
| Published | : | November 4th 2008 by New American Library (first published October 16th 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Magic. Romance. Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.65 From 12544 Users | 826 ReviewsJudgment Of Books Magic to the Bone (Allie Beckstrom #1)
This book had such a nice ending. There are many questions yet to be revealed and answered in this story but the book didn't leave me feeling cut off with a cliff hanger. That is a nice change. I've gotten to expect the cliffhangers in series books, especially first in series. This one left me really, really wanting to continue reading Allie's story but it also gave me a sense of renewal and fresh start; like a whole new chapter of her story will open with the next book. I really like the sweetMagic to the Bone is another Urban Fantasy novel involving magic, but there are twists. When you use magic, you have to pay a price such as a memory or some sort of pain. People illegally push the costs off to victims, and that's where the MC comes into play; as a Hound, she tracks down people using magic illegally. Unfortunately for her, one of her clients leads back to a bad source, and soon there is a murder investigation and much higher stakes.Allie is a likeable, guilt-stricken and stubborn
I finished 2 books today, quick audio reads and they've both been disappointments for me. Let me say here that both should have been labeled PNR (PareNormal Romance) rather than UF (Urban Fantasy). This book started out for me as maybe a high 3. It is a good idea (again a mage type character with a limited power that will obviously grow). Sadly it devolves quickly into soap opera with "concerns of the heart" trumping story. "Our" relationship with our father, our friends...and of course our on
All right, y'all, now here's the thing; I read this series before I was on here and didn't go into it with the same thought process I have now. That doesn't mean that I love this series any less, it just means that I can admit that there are issues with this book that I hadn't really paid attention to before. This book has that First Book Syndrome, and Allie makes some questionable decisions, but this remains one of my favorite series.The story is set in a world like ours, but unlike ours,
New (to me) author Devon Monk has imagined a world where magic exists--but extracts a serious price from its users. The more magic you use, the bigger the price in pain, blood, or loss...unless you're rich enough, or ruthless enough, to transfer that price to someone else. Allie knows all about magic's price. At least she would, if she could only remember. After all, her father and his wealthy corporation have their fingers in all the magic 'pies' in the world. And she was all set to follow in
3.5There is that breed of writers who now dominate the urban fantasy market and who bring to the readers a gritty, dark, often disappointing world of supernatural beings and magic. Like Ilona Andrews and Patricia Briggs, Devon Monk has created a tough heroine who takes care of herself, has had a rough childhood, makes friends despite herself and stumbles into world-domination plots that make her groan!I like Allie Beckstrom and as a heroine who suffers from partial amnesia every time she uses
I really like the world so far and how the magic works. I didn't like that it switched from A's 1st person pov to third person pov for Cody. It was a little jarring. But then I felt so bad for Cody I did like his scene. I just don't like how it goes from 1st to 3rd person. This is set in Portland which I enjoy, since I live in Portland. However I have a higher opinion of Saint Johns than the author does. Some of the phrasing is weird to me, like: "My mouth watered so hard I had to swallow." some
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