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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: "Sanctuary (Roman's Chronicles)" by Ilona Andrews
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 15:48:25 -0600
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"Sanctuary (Roman's Chronicles)" by Ilona Andrews
  
https://www.amazon.com/Sanctuary-Romans-Chronicles-Ilona-Andrews/dp/1641972912/

Book number one of a one novella book dark fantasy paranormal romance 
series.  The series is a spinoff to the Kate Daniels series.  I read the 
well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback 
published by Nancy Yost Literary Agency, Inc in 2024.  I look forward to 
future novels in the main series and this spinoff series.  Note that 
“Ilona Andrews” is the pseudonym for a husband and wife writing team.

Kate Daniels's universe sucks.  Forty years ago, the tech world crashed 
over the entire Earth and was replaced by the magic world in the form of 
a magic flare.  Guns don't work, cars don't work, electricity and phones 
do not work.  But magic works.  Good magic and bad magic.

After a week, the tech world came back to a drastically changed world. 
And radically fewer humans.  And the magic world came back after a 
while.  And the tech world came back after that.  And so on and so 
forth.  Each world can last a few weeks or a few hours.

Roman is the local Volhv wizard in Atlanta serving Chernobog, the god of 
Destruction, Darkness and Death.  He has worked a deal with his god that 
he gets December 23 to December 25 off each year.  And his crew of very 
strange animals has drunk all of his eggnog and eaten all of his cookies 
during the night.  And a 15 year old kid has passed out in his front 
yard with a knife wound in his thigh, asking for sanctuary.  And 
mercenaries are chasing the kid with a powerful wizard.

I liked everything about the story.  I especially liked the very clear 
distinction between the tech time and the magic time.  I had never 
thought about it that way.  The series may be inspired by "Ariel" by 
Steven Boyett and "Dies The Fire" by S. M. Stirling except those never 
interchange the tech time and the magic time, they just transitioned to 
the magic time and never went back.

The authors have a website at:
    https://www.ilona-andrews.com

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (5,210 reviews)

Lynn