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Book Review of Strange Magic (Yancy Lazarus, Bk 1)

Strange Magic (Yancy Lazarus, Bk 1)
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The story was a little hard to wrap my mind around, but I fell for Yancy Lazarus like a ton of bricks. He is all kinds of messed up, but his heart is in the right place and he is snarky as all hell. It was the snark that hooked me. And on that point I'll let Yancy speak for himself.

"In my book, when people try to kill me, it's my policy to kill them first and to do a damn thorough job of it."

"Eventually, those emotions come roaring back like a crazy ex, and that crazy metaphorical ex will toss all of your emotional furniture right off the balcony and into the pool."

"The world blurred, and all of the oxygen I'd been enjoying suddenly left me without so much as a Dear John letter."

"I knew he was joking. I still wanted to give him a thousand paper cuts and throw him into a piranha tank. Scratch that, I didn't want to throw him in any ol' piranha tank, I wanted to throw him into a tank filled with genetically modified super-piranhas carrying tasers and bullwhips.

Genetically modified super-piranhas carrying tasers and bullwhips, galloping on man-eating tigers."


I look forward to more Yancy Lazarus