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Freelance Sorcery at Reasonable RatesLaunching a magical career can be a challenge, even for a talented sorceress like Sinta, who-despite a naturally timid disposition-finds her¬self faced with spoiled rich clients, rampaging robbers, marauding pirates, and savage trolls (well, only the one, though it does have two heads).Alas, in the course of her adventures, Sinta unwittingly makes a new and dangerous enemy, a high-born magician with the power and cunning to disgrace and destroy her. How will this humble apothecary's daughter escape his nefarious trap and bring the schemer to justice?Sorceress for Hire is Book Two in the diverting fantasy series Tales from Ondiran, but it is a free-standing novella. Reading Book One first will add depth but is in no way necessary!… (more)
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The storyline is action-driven, Sinta getting into and,
Sinta's deadpan.snarking, no-nonsense approach to life and how to make her way through it is rather refreshing. The dialogue felt a bit too modern at times, but never mind. However, I felt there was a bit of a lack of character development. The baddies are bad out of sheer badness, while Sinta herself did not, to my mind, somehow come across as a real person. She is neither greatly troubled when learning of her father's death, but mainly, instead she is more put out by having to go to the trouble of having to deal with her inheritance. Nor is she greataly fazed by the maiming our outright killing she metes out to her several attackers along her way. With one thing and another, I could not actually relate to her as a character.
All in all, an entertaining, but not outstandingly good, read.
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