Brittle Midnight (City of Magic #2)

Paperback, 275 pages

English language

Published July 12, 2019

ISBN:
978-1-913116-01-9
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3 stars (1 review)

Charley is under pressure. The demands of her new community are piling on stress after stress and, even with her developing magical skills, she’s finding it hard to cope. Things aren’t any better for Monroe - his grief and guilt over what happened to his werewolf pack are overwhelming him. When dead bodies start to appear across the city, they’re going to have to work together to prevent more killings. But whether they’ll be able to survive together too is anyone’s guess.

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3 stars

Charlie, having become the de facto leader of the human community in post-Mancopalypse Manchester, is, understandably, frazzled. Monroe, titular leader of the freaky part of town, is in psychological melt-down. Will they recover their equilibrium? Will they have mad passionate sex together? Will they save Manchester from the serial killer in the shadows? Anyone who knows Helen Harper's book can have a good guess at the answers to those questions. The fun is in the getting there, in taking in all the daft decisions and contorted logic that the heroine wafts through, and the equally dumb reactions of all the other characters, and in enjoying the jokes. There seem to be less jokes than there used to be, or maybe I've become desensitized over time. On the other hand, the male lead is less awful than in some of her other books. I rather enjoyed the blood-thirsty mermaid, and wish …