Devon Monk, Author . Roc $6.99 (355p) ISBN 978-0-451-46240-4
In this clever and compulsively readable debut, set in a magical analog of Portland, Ore., Allie Beckstrom is a Hound, able to trace a spell back to its caster. When a young boy is injured by a spell, Allie tracks it back to her estranged father,...
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Devon Monk, Fairwood (www.fairwoodpress.com), $16.99 paper (264p) ISBN 978-0-9820730-9-4
Urban fantasist Monk (Magic on the Storm) has collected a delicious sampling of her short fiction, including four stories original to this volume. In "Dusi," the gorgon Medusa has survived into modern times, making her living selling remarkably...
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Devon Monk, Roc, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46362-3
The action-packed fifth Allie Beckstrom novel (after 2009's Magic in the Shadows) amps up the magical mayhem. Just as Allie joins the Authority, a secret group of magical enforcers, internal warfare threatens the organization. Also in danger is...
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Devon Monk. Roc, $15 (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-46396-8%E2%80%A8
A complex and extraordinary world is brought to life as bestselling author Monk's dips into the steampunk genre in this series debut. In the small town of Hallelujah, Ore., Cedar Hunt earns his way by tracking down beasts and lost items. When a...
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Devon Monk. Roc, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46428-6
Monk’s electric seventh Allie Beckstrom urban fantasy (after Apr. 2011’s Magic on the Hunt) is the best one yet. With Portland’s magical community already in upheaval, local leader Bartholomew Wray decides to completely overhaul the Portland...
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Devon Monk. Roc, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-46453-8
Monk's enthralling second Age of Steam American steampunk adventure (after Dead Iron) brings back Cedar Hunt, a werewolf who can sense the Strange, creatures of magic and machine that seek to harm the mortal world. A bargain, and the nature of his...
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Devon Monk. Roc, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-41860-9
Danger from the Strange—and from human greed—grows in the American Weird West in this page-turning third Age of Steam installment (after Tin Swift). Cursed werewolves Cedar and Wil Hunt, powerful witch Mae Lindson, and the maybe-not-quite-human...
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Devon Monk. Roc, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-41793-0
Monk’s second Broken Magic urban fantasy (after Hell Bent) is so weighed down with exposition that the story never gets off the ground. Even returning readers apparently need to be brought up to speed about a magical apocalypse and the resulting...
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Devon Monk. Roc, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46736-2
Eleven color-coded Houses control the technology and resources of Earth. The 12th House, House Brown, is democratic but has little real power. Many people find freedom only by living hidden from the Houses’ movers and shakers. Matilda Case has spent
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Devon Monk. Roc, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46737-9
Grit and adrenaline drive the action-filled, romance-tinged second novel in Monk’s House Immortal SF/fantasy series (after House Immortal). Matilda Case is one of the 13 immortals called the galvanized. She and her brother, Quentin, are working on...
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Devon Monk. Roc, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46738-6
The third installment of Monk’s House Immortal series (after Infinity Bell) finds many familiar faces taking on vastly different roles, forcing heroine Matilda Case—one of the immortal galvanized, who has now been stitched into another woman’s body—e
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