Wild Card

by Lisa Shearin

Ebook, 2014

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Publication

Denver : NLA Digital LLC, 2014.

Description

Fantasy. Fiction. Romance. HTML: My name is Raine Benares. I'm a seeker, a finder of things lost and people missing. I've never had to do both in one day, or had this many lives at stake�??including mine. The search for a missing ring leads me to the abduction of eight magically gifted children. Their souls were stolen while they slept, and unless I find those souls by sunrise, their bodies will die. Both cases have one thing in common�??they're linked to a goblin secret society high-stakes poker game, whose members are practitioners of the blackest of black magic. As a seeker, I can track those captured children's souls, but to spring them will take magic I haven't got. That's where Tamnais Nathrach comes in. He's the seductive embodiment of sin itself. He's also a goblin dark mage with an even darker past, the owner of the city's most notorious casino�??and the only person with magic enough to reach the kids in time. Why are the most dangerous predators the most beautiful? The stakes are high; the odds of success are low. And I'm betting with my life�??a life I'll have to trust to a darkly tempting goblin mage I ju… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Nice to see Raine before all the tangle of Magic Lost - though if that's what happened, there are some references, to events and people, missing from Magic Lost. She should have thought about that second in command, and had an idea (mistaken, but an idea) why Nukpana knew her name. Ah well.
LibraryThing member funstm
A magical prequel featuring pirates, goblins, elves and stolen souls. Raine Benares is the only (or at least mostly) law abiding member of a criminal family. Distancing herself from the family business sees her making a living as a seeker - a person who finds and retrieves stolen goods, missing
Show More
items or kidnapped people.

In this first case, Raine is charged with finding some stolen jewellery and teams up with her cousin, Captain Phaelan Benares - second most feared pirate of the seven kingdoms - and newcomer to the city, the infamous Tamnais Nathrach - the ex right hand and magical enforcer of the goblin queen. And Raine needs all the help she can get because it's not just stolen jewellery she's after - but stolen souls.

I really liked this. The banter between Raine and Phaelan and Tam and the rest is snarky and hilarious. The mystery was interesting and the world building was well done - even if not anything particularly original. It was full of action and adventure and a great start to a new urban fantasy series. 4 stars.
Show Less

Language

Original publication date

2018-03-28

ISBN

1620511347 / 9781620511343
Page: 0.2838 seconds