One Foot in the Fade: Fetch Phillips Book 3 – Luke Arnold – 20.12.23
After slogging through Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, I wanted something fun to read, and I remembered how much I enjoyed the first part of this series by Luke Arnold. Set in a world that used to have magic users and all kinds of magical creatures, until some event happened which removed all the magic from the world. The magical creatures are weakening or dying off and the world has to learn how to create science and technology to take over the day to day tasks that used to be performed by magic.
The hero is a human who lives with shame because of his past when he fought against magic users in the war. He is now a private investigator trying his best to atone by exclusively working for (ex)magical creatures. It has a darky comic noir feel and I found the series to be very well written with intelligent characterisation and plotting and I felt gripped and moved by it.
Sarah Wray Writer 