Synopsis from Amazon:
Nicola was never a hero. She was an everyday
single mother, Heathen witch, and herbalist. She was happy with her
quiet life until the night Joseph showed up at her door with news that
her step-sister joined a cult… and she had gone missing.
Pressured by family loyalties, Nicola goes back to Indianapolis, dodging old enemies and calling on old friends to help her find her step-sister. What she finds instead is an ex with super-powers, monsters and demigods on the streets, and a detective ready to bring her in for a murder investigation…or three.
Can Nicola become the hero she needs to be, or will she lose everyone she cares for?
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My Review:
Pressured by family loyalties, Nicola goes back to Indianapolis, dodging old enemies and calling on old friends to help her find her step-sister. What she finds instead is an ex with super-powers, monsters and demigods on the streets, and a detective ready to bring her in for a murder investigation…or three.
Can Nicola become the hero she needs to be, or will she lose everyone she cares for?
>>>>>>>>
My Review:
Wow! What a ride! Buhrman joins the ranks of “kickass-magic-wielding- heroine-comes-up-against-a- supernatural-entity”!
I
have enjoyed many a foray into the supernatural genre, from
light-hearted, snarky fun, to deep and heavy, feels-wrenching roller
coasters. I believe this qualifies as the former, which I found
wonderful!
Nicola, an unapologetic Pagan with a
penchant for trouble, has one chief rule in life: you don’t mess with
her family. And if any of her family is in trouble, she will do what it
takes to help them. I loved that about her. The way she pursued her
wayward step-sister and got herself neck-deep in powers she wasn’t prepared
for, all for Muriel’s sake (and somewhat for her daughter, Ella),
resonated with me. It was striking, the friends she had made in
connecting with her sister, and the enemies, too, of people who tried to
mess with her or set themselves up as superior.
I loved in particular the handling of the lore in this book. Some writers might fall into the trap of over-mysticizing their magic system, or going the route of using so many cliches that there aren't very many explanations we readers haven't heard before. I actually enjoyed the way Buhrman chose straightforward definitions and parameters for magic usage, an intriguing method of social hierarchy, and there is a discourse on "science-versus-religion" at one point that made sense for the context of this series. Plus, the fact that she manages to touch on several different belief systems without disparaging any of them puts her up alongside Brandon Sanderson and Mark Lawrence, as far as matters of "religion in literature" are concerned!
Since this
particular adventure involved an ex, a series of Spells Of Ultimate
Power, a haphazard attempt at a quasi-Ragnarok, Valkyries, and trips
into the astral plane, you best be prepared for anything to happen,
because I promise you, it will!
It’s a
rollicking good time with close relationships between characters, it’s chuckles and gasps
and turning pages as fast as you can... and at the bottom of it all, the
message is clear: you mess with godlike powers, you had better be prepared for things to get
a bit Too Wyrd!!
TOO WYRD earns a solid
*****4.5 STARS***** and if you’re in the market for a great adventure
with a worthwhile heroine and pantheon of peril, be sure to check out
TOO WYRD and the rest of the Runespells series! It ain’t over yet! It’s
only just begun!
Further Reading: (Supernatural/Paranormal/Great Heroines/Dealing With Deities)
The Fair Folk Chronicles--Jeffrey Cook and Katherine Perkins
-Foul is Fair
-Street Fair
-A Fair Fight
-Foul is Fair
-Street Fair
-A Fair Fight
The Firebird Fairy Tales--Amy Kuivalainen
-The Cry of the Firebird
-The Cry of the Firebird
The Books of Winter--R. R. Virdi
-Dangerous Ways
-Dangerous Ways
The Untamed Series--Madeline Dyer
-Untamed
-Untamed
Tales of the Fallen--Katika Schneider
-Devotion
-Devotion
The LouisiAngel Series--C. L. Coffey
-Angel in Training
-Angel in Training
Judah Black Series--E. A. Copen
-Guilty By Association
-Guilty By Association
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