04/25/2016
Bushnell’s (The Weirdness) excellent second novel begins with Olive “Ollie” Krueger making the kind of throwaway decision we all do at times: she talks to a stranger in a park. However, this stranger is a warlock who wants Ollie and her friend Victor to become a part of a network of magic users hiding in plain sight. But this book is not about magic. It is about people coming to terms with their histories. Chapters alternate from the now adult Ollie, working as a butcher at a high-end Manhattan restaurant prophetically named Carnage, and Maja, a woman gifted with the ability to “locate” objects and people. Ollie is struggling with broken relationships and a child she left behind. Maja is haunted, literally, by her younger brother Eivind. Maja becomes a locator for hire; her clients are a group of white supremacists wanting to find a great magic object to usher in an era that only Hitler could imagine. Bushnell also includes other dimensions, and an ex-Marine named Pig to round out this off-the-wall tale. The alternating protagonists translates into a very fast read, as does Bushnell’s hyper-realistic prose, which effectively captures his cast of characters. (June)
Ollie Krueger's days as a punk kid practicing street magic are mostly behind her. Now she's a butcher at Carnage, a high end restaurant offering deconstructed takes on meat, and on the busiest nights of the week she and her partner, Guychardson, race to see who can produce more finished cuts. Ollie's the better butcher, but somehow Guychardson almost always wins. *And Ollie thinks maybe it's because the mysterious knife he uses is magic.
Before she knows it, Ollie's interest in the knife has thrown her square in the path of a dangerous ex-marine called "Pig" and his hired psychic, Maja, who are on the hunt for the knife too-who want it so badly, in fact, that they might kill for it.
Now, magic is back in Ollie's life and she's being chased through New York City, with the fabric of space-time tattering around her and weird inter dimensional worms squirming their way into her kitchen. *And before all this is over she's going to need to face up to the possible consequences of some bad decisions, to look at the uncomfortable truths that she stuffed away long ago, deep down inside . . .
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Before she knows it, Ollie's interest in the knife has thrown her square in the path of a dangerous ex-marine called "Pig" and his hired psychic, Maja, who are on the hunt for the knife too-who want it so badly, in fact, that they might kill for it.
Now, magic is back in Ollie's life and she's being chased through New York City, with the fabric of space-time tattering around her and weird inter dimensional worms squirming their way into her kitchen. *And before all this is over she's going to need to face up to the possible consequences of some bad decisions, to look at the uncomfortable truths that she stuffed away long ago, deep down inside . . .
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Ollie Krueger's days as a punk kid practicing street magic are mostly behind her. Now she's a butcher at Carnage, a high end restaurant offering deconstructed takes on meat, and on the busiest nights of the week she and her partner, Guychardson, race to see who can produce more finished cuts. Ollie's the better butcher, but somehow Guychardson almost always wins. *And Ollie thinks maybe it's because the mysterious knife he uses is magic.
Before she knows it, Ollie's interest in the knife has thrown her square in the path of a dangerous ex-marine called "Pig" and his hired psychic, Maja, who are on the hunt for the knife too-who want it so badly, in fact, that they might kill for it.
Now, magic is back in Ollie's life and she's being chased through New York City, with the fabric of space-time tattering around her and weird inter dimensional worms squirming their way into her kitchen. *And before all this is over she's going to need to face up to the possible consequences of some bad decisions, to look at the uncomfortable truths that she stuffed away long ago, deep down inside . . .
Before she knows it, Ollie's interest in the knife has thrown her square in the path of a dangerous ex-marine called "Pig" and his hired psychic, Maja, who are on the hunt for the knife too-who want it so badly, in fact, that they might kill for it.
Now, magic is back in Ollie's life and she's being chased through New York City, with the fabric of space-time tattering around her and weird inter dimensional worms squirming their way into her kitchen. *And before all this is over she's going to need to face up to the possible consequences of some bad decisions, to look at the uncomfortable truths that she stuffed away long ago, deep down inside . . .
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| BN ID: | 2940170098361 |
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| Publisher: | HighBridge Company |
| Publication date: | 06/07/2016 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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