Recently Read: Urban Shaman
Nov. 11th, 2006 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianHmmm... thought I posted this yesterday, and this morning it pops up as "restore from saved draft"... go figure.
Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy
I was a bit leery of this, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mizkit was published by a branch of Harlequin, and for some odd reason I've never been a fan of that particular publishing house.
Despite having a lot against it on those grounds alone, I figured I'd give it a go anyway, having heard from - I think -phantom_wolfboy that Luna published at least one other author that was worth reading no matter what publishing house; and if Luna was smart enough to pick up somebody he'd recommend, maybe they had a couple other good authors as well...
For all that this is an urban fantasy, a mix of Celtic and Native American myths, at it's core this is about a particular slice of the Celtic mythos: the Wild Hunt. I've always been partial to tales of the hunt, and I was pleasantly surprised - given my initial fears - that this fits nicely into that group of stories. I feel I learned a bit out of it - and actually want to go, erm, hunt down some source material on the hunt. Despite what certain leaders of certain countries might think, it's always good to learn new things, and it's nice to have a book coax you enough that you want to find out more.
I read this in a handful of short bursts, the last of which - maybe the third or fourth time I picked it up - covered probably three quarters of the book. Good stuff, and I'm curious enough about What Happens Next in these characters lives to see where things go from here.
Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy
I was a bit leery of this, as
mizkit was published by a branch of Harlequin, and for some odd reason I've never been a fan of that particular publishing house.Despite having a lot against it on those grounds alone, I figured I'd give it a go anyway, having heard from - I think -
phantom_wolfboy that Luna published at least one other author that was worth reading no matter what publishing house; and if Luna was smart enough to pick up somebody he'd recommend, maybe they had a couple other good authors as well...For all that this is an urban fantasy, a mix of Celtic and Native American myths, at it's core this is about a particular slice of the Celtic mythos: the Wild Hunt. I've always been partial to tales of the hunt, and I was pleasantly surprised - given my initial fears - that this fits nicely into that group of stories. I feel I learned a bit out of it - and actually want to go, erm, hunt down some source material on the hunt. Despite what certain leaders of certain countries might think, it's always good to learn new things, and it's nice to have a book coax you enough that you want to find out more.
I read this in a handful of short bursts, the last of which - maybe the third or fourth time I picked it up - covered probably three quarters of the book. Good stuff, and I'm curious enough about What Happens Next in these characters lives to see where things go from here.
