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Pacific Fire

By Greg van Eekhout
Pacific Fire by Greg van Eekhout digital book - Fable

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Pacific Fire: Another thrilling ride through Greg van Eekhout's wildly imaginative world of California Bones, featuring entertaining new characters and a dangerous magical plot unfolding in Los Angeles.

I'm Sam. I'm just this guy.

Okay, yeah, I'm a golem created from the substance of his own magic by the late Hierarch of Southern California. With a lot of work, I might be able to wield magic myself. I kind of doubt it, though. Not like Daniel Blackland can.

Daniel's the reason the Hierarch's gone and I'm still alive. He's also the reason I've lived my entire life on the run. Ten years of never, ever going back to Los Angeles. Daniel's determined to protect me. To teach me.

But it gets old. I've got nobody but Daniel. I'll never do anything normal. Like attend school. Or date a girl.

Now it's worse. Because things are happening back in LA. Very bad people are building a Pacific firedrake, a kind of ultimate weapon of mass magical destruction. Daniel seemed to think only he could stop them. Now Daniel's been hurt. I managed to get us to the place run by the Emmas. (Many of them. All named Emma. It's a long story.) They seem to be healing him, but he isn't going anyplace soon.

Do I even have a reason for existing, if it isn't to prevent this firedrake from happening? I'm good at escaping from things. Now I've escaped from Daniel and the Emmas, and I'm on my way to LA.
This may be the worst idea I ever had.


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3.5
“This is not your typical sequel. Van Eekhout doesn't do what authors typically do. There is no formula to his storytelling. After the first one you think you have it figured out how it's going to go, but instead it's completely different. While the third book could be formulaic, I'm not sure I haven't gotten that far yet, the second one does not suffer slump syndrome, nor does it suffer from simply being a bridge from one book to the next. This is almost its own standalone story, if you knew enough about the magic system it could be. While the ending, yes, makes you want to read more, for the most part the story is self contained. Kudos to this author, I can't wait to finish the series.”

About Greg van Eekhout

GREG VAN EEKHOUT is the author of California Bones, as well as a previous fantasy novel with Bantam Books, Norse Code. He is also the author of two middle-grade SF novels, Kid vs. Squid and The Boy at the End of the World (a finalist for the Andre Norton Award). He lives in San Diego, California.

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