{"id":392,"date":"2015-02-20T13:28:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T19:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/?p=392"},"modified":"2015-08-09T23:27:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T04:27:01","slug":"jen-reads-spell-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2015\/02\/20\/jen-reads-spell-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen reads: Spell Blind (The Case Files of Justis Fearsson Book 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href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23967021-spell-blind\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spell Blind (The Case Files of Justis Fearsson Book 1)\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1419049384m\/23967021.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23967021-spell-blind\">Spell Blind<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/41202.David_B_Coe\">David B. Coe<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1152903982\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had this one for a while before I started reading it, because there were a bunch of other approved ARCs I had to read, etc. Then I finally opened it, and&#8230;I wasn&#8217;t blown away, but I kept reading. The author presents us with our world, just a little removed&#8211;magic is real, though most people don&#8217;t give it much thought. Our protagonist is a weremyste&#8211;a wizard all the time, but a crazy, hallucinogenic, more powerful wizard during the three days of the full moon. I felt like this aspect of magic wasn&#8217;t dealt with all that well&#8211;essentially weremystes turn into hermits during the full moon, or they might hurt someone (or themselves). Obviously this isn&#8217;t good for a career or a relationship, but we really only see one example of how the moon affects Justis. It&#8217;s a good example, with plenty of magic and peril, but I feel like it could have been explored more. The writing is punchy and the story flows well. The characters aren&#8217;t terribly well described, but each one does have a personality and represent a diverse swath of humanity. Some squeamish types will note a few gruesome deaths. There&#8217;s some fun dialogue and a few bits about mental health and medication.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of private investigator-types in urban fantasy, and Justis isn&#8217;t all that different from, say, Harry Dresden in that series&#8217; first book. I enjoyed reading this one, but I didn&#8217;t find it hard to put it down in favor of another game of Spellfall. I do want to know what happens next for Justis and his just-magic-of-normal world, though the author will have to give us another whopper of an antagonist to bring this series up to Dresden&#8217;s level. If you&#8217;re craving similar urban fantasy-mystery, give this a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Received as a free digital ARC via Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Read from February 08 to 18, 2015.<\/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 SPELL BLIND, a magical private eye novel.<\/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: Spell Blind (Justis Fearsson #1)","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":[14,38,43,62],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-excerpt","post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","tag-contemporary","tag-magic","tag-netgalley","tag-urban-fantasy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3A5W1-6k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":718,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4329,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/4329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}