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books2023-06-16 06:59 pm
marycatelli) wrote in books2023-06-16 06:59 pm
By a Silver Thread
By a Silver Thread by Rachel Aaron
A return to the DFW. The earlier series may familiarize you with the setting, but there are only a couple of blink and you'll miss them references to the particular events. Also where you will learn what the fairies are in the universe.
The opening has the main character found in a pediatric cancer ward (though she clearly doesn't have cancer) by a blood mage. He tells her she's a changeling, and her existence is about to dissolve with the nurses' belief (because fairies require you to believe in their magic), and with that the original child will be lost forever. (The link being embodied in a silver thread that she can see.)
Cut to the current day, where she delivers his highly illegal products (yes, illegal in the DFZ where there are only four laws) and in particular is telling a client that unless he has money, he will not get his.
Shortly thereafter, disaster strikes: the blood mage has vanished, and when she gets there, his lab is havoc. Meanwhile, she spots the urban legend the Black Rider in the traffic, which, she thinks, is trivia next to her burning need to get her pills from him to remain human in form.
It involves more about the Black Rider, the blood mage's apprentice Simon whom he rejected for not embracing the full potential of blood magic, a film with little plot but much advertising, the god who runs a noodle chain, an actress who appeared in a yogurt ad, that her purported parents had another child after the one taken, and more.
A return to the DFW. The earlier series may familiarize you with the setting, but there are only a couple of blink and you'll miss them references to the particular events. Also where you will learn what the fairies are in the universe.
The opening has the main character found in a pediatric cancer ward (though she clearly doesn't have cancer) by a blood mage. He tells her she's a changeling, and her existence is about to dissolve with the nurses' belief (because fairies require you to believe in their magic), and with that the original child will be lost forever. (The link being embodied in a silver thread that she can see.)
Cut to the current day, where she delivers his highly illegal products (yes, illegal in the DFZ where there are only four laws) and in particular is telling a client that unless he has money, he will not get his.
Shortly thereafter, disaster strikes: the blood mage has vanished, and when she gets there, his lab is havoc. Meanwhile, she spots the urban legend the Black Rider in the traffic, which, she thinks, is trivia next to her burning need to get her pills from him to remain human in form.
It involves more about the Black Rider, the blood mage's apprentice Simon whom he rejected for not embracing the full potential of blood magic, a film with little plot but much advertising, the god who runs a noodle chain, an actress who appeared in a yogurt ad, that her purported parents had another child after the one taken, and more.