What Fate Portends Author: Clara Coulson Title: What Fate Portends Series: The Frost Arcana Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Pairing: M/F Rating: Four Petals On the Author's Website: https://claracoulson.com/what-fate-portends Summary: Seven years ago, the exposure of the paranormal led to the tumultuous downfall of human society. Now, the legions of the fae rule the broken world, and humanity has nothing left but a handful of protected cities and a heaping helping of regret. Enter Vincent Whelan. Half fae and former cop, he's become the best-known stretch scavenger in Kinsale, North Carolina, braving the "stretches" outside his city to recover precious items lost in the collapse. He makes good money. Lives the good life. Has a good future in store. As long as he can ignore his traumatic memories of the past. But when a new job with an odd twist blows onto his doorstep, Vince finds himself unwittingly drawn into a vast conspiracy lurking underneath Kinsale's thin veneer of civilization. Old friends suddenly return to haunt him. New enemies appear at every turn. And Vince fears he isn't prepared to confront either one. But if he doesn't put his detective hat back on and solve this case on a tight deadline, then what's left of the city he calls home might just crumble to dust. Maggie's Review:
I received this book as an ARC via the author in exchange for an honest review. Vincent is a stretch scavenger, which means he travels through dangerous territory in order to retrieve precious items, for a cost of course. When he's offered a new job the lure of the money entices him to accept, but once he starts working on it, Vince quickly realizes not only has he been tricked, but he might just be in for the fight of his life. The world building in this story was really interesting. The fae had to step in to save Earth, which set off an eternal winter and brought magic and magical creatures into the limelight. I could see the amount of thought and planning that went into every aspect of the new society that resulted, as well as the repercussions for humans and fae alike. I also really enjoyed the characterizations. Vince and Saoirse were each unique characters that just worked well together. If I had one complaint, it was that this story absolutely read like the first book of a series. There were a lot of purposefully unanswered questions, some of which are a touch cliffhanger-y, left in this story. It sets up the next book very nicely, but I could have used a bit more closure and a few more answered questions in this story to really round out my full understanding of the characters and the situation they're in. Maggie's Recommendation: I really enjoyed this story. The world building and characterizations were very well done and incredibly engaging. I could have used a few more questions answered by the end of the story, but it really only made me anticipate the next book in this series even more. I definitely recommend this book.
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