The first 'Mara Mason' book 'Blood Engines' really impressed me and I was happy to see this second part was due for release sooner rather than later. Isn't it annoying to read a great book and find out you have to wait a whole year for the next one?

Mara Mason is back home in Felport and is trying to keep up with her duties as chief sorcerer. Someone always wants her dead and she is quite used to it but this time she is the target of an assassin who specializes in taking days or even years to kill his victims.

However this isn't her main concern. Her highest priority is to find a patient who has broken out of the Blackwing institute for criminally insane sorcerers. Genevieve is a psychic who can reweave the fabric of reality and her reality after getting traumatically attacked 15 years ago isn't something the normal population of Felport needs to know about.

This author has managed to make a nice new magical underworld that is black and badder than ever with a main character who is just a bad girl and knows how to use her abilities to get done what needs doing. Marla's partner Rondeau is not as present in this book but there are a few new characters who make up for his lack of showtime.

I love this series and it has to be one of the newest and freshest I have found so far this year. It is satisfying and enjoyable and I am looking forward to the 3rd book 'Dead Reign' which is due out in October.

Well worth checking out! You maybe annoyed with yourself for not trying this series sooner rather than later!

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