Pacific fire - BookWyrm

332 pages

English language

Published June 20, 2015

ISBN:: 978-0-7653-8044-9
OCLC Number:: 879582502

(4 reviews)

"I'm Sam. I'm just this guy. Okay, yeah, I'm a golem created from the substance of his own magic by the late Hierarch of Southern California. With a lot of work, I might be able to wield magic myself. I kind of doubt it, though. Not like Daniel Blackland can. Daniel's the reason the Hierarch's gone and I'm still alive. He's also the reason I've lived my entire life on the run. Ten years of never, ever going back to Los Angeles. Daniel's determined to protect me. To teach me. But it gets old. I've got nobody but Daniel. I'll never do anything normal. Like attend school. Or date a girl. Now it's worse. Because things are happening back in LA. Very bad people are building a Pacific firedrake, a kind of ultimate weapon of mass magical destruction. Daniel seemed to think only he could stop them. Now Daniel's been …

"I'm Sam. I'm just this guy. Okay, yeah, I'm a golem created from the substance of his own magic by the late Hierarch of Southern California. With a lot of work, I might be able to wield magic myself. I kind of doubt it, though. Not like Daniel Blackland can. Daniel's the reason the Hierarch's gone and I'm still alive. He's also the reason I've lived my entire life on the run. Ten years of never, ever going back to Los Angeles. Daniel's determined to protect me. To teach me. But it gets old. I've got nobody but Daniel. I'll never do anything normal. Like attend school. Or date a girl. Now it's worse. Because things are happening back in LA. Very bad people are building a Pacific firedrake, a kind of ultimate weapon of mass magical destruction. Daniel seemed to think only he could stop them. Now Daniel's been hurt. I managed to get us to the place run by the Emmas. (Many of them. All named Emma. It's a long story.) They seem to be healing him, but he isn't going anyplace soon. Do I even have a reason for existing, if it isn't to prevent this firedrake from happening? I'm good at escaping from things. Now I've escaped from Daniel and the Emmas, and I'm on my way to LA. This may be the worst idea I ever had"--

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betty reviewed Pacific fire by Greg Van Eekhout (California bones -- 2)

Review of 'Pacific fire' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Hard to write a follow-up to a story in which your protag. defeated the big bad and consumed his power. Eekhout manages by having him unconscious for the first third so that he's playing catch-up. Most of the story follows his son's attempt to live an independent life, which unfortunately he interprets as "defeat supervillains using blind luck, and own superpowers (tbd)."

Sam does a decent job of carrying the book, although he is not quite as likeable as Daniel. I mean, teenagerhood is a difficult stage. It happens to us all.