{"id":236,"date":"2014-03-18T15:37:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/?p=236"},"modified":"2014-03-18T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:37:38","slug":"jen-reads-dirty-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2014\/03\/18\/jen-reads-dirty-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen reads: Dirty Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18244542-dirty-magic\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dirty Magic (The Prospero's War, #1)\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1374843603m\/18244542.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18244542-dirty-magic\">Dirty Magic<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1938234.Jaye_Wells\">Jaye Wells<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/831381231\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve encountered Jaye Wells in a few urban fantasy anthologies that I&#8217;ve read, but this is my first full-length novel by her, and I&#8217;ll definitely be looking for more. DIRTY MAGIC equates alchemical potions to the drug problem prevalent in any run-down city, with MC Kate Prospero as a cop on the beat trying to keep the citizens safe from magical menace. She has a history with a bad boy made good, the mayor&#8217;s darling, and of course they are forced to work together to keep a new, dangerous potion off the street. Kate used to cook dirty magic herself (so called since it&#8217;s done without the benefit of clean water or sterile conditions) but a death in her family has made her swear off cooking forever. This is the source of many a moral quandary during the book, though Kate&#8217;s deliberations are realistic and not too much of a flip-flop.<\/p>\n<p>This is straight-up urban fantasy, so there is plenty of streetwise magic and a healthy dollop of romance with a good mystery and lots of background. Kate reminds me of Kate Beckett from the TV show Castle, working hard for what she believes in and protecting those she loves. The &#8220;cooking&#8221; is a nice mix of scientific principles and alchemy, and sounds believable to this scientist. The side characters are memorable and often funny. I read DIRTY MAGIC fast, and happily, and would gladly check out the next book in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Received as a free digital ARC via Netgalley and the publisher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/76111-jennifer\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which Jen reads DIRTY MAGIC and wishes her work at the lab bench was as exciting as the alchemy in this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Jen reads: Dirty Magic http:\/\/wp.me\/p3A5W1-3O","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,14,18,38,43,48,56,62],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-excerpt","post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","tag-american","tag-contemporary","tag-crime","tag-magic","tag-netgalley","tag-paranormal","tag-shifters","tag-urban-fantasy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3A5W1-3O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}