Format: Kindle, 439 pages
Release Date: October 19, 2022
Publisher: Karen Chance
Source: Amazon
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Half werewolf Lia de Croissets is a member of
the War Mage Corps, the police branch of the world’s leading magical
organization, the Silver Circle. She’s an instructor assigned to train
new recruits, a job considered to be significantly tougher than
combat—especially right now. There is a war going on in the supernatural
world, and the other side has discovered a deadly new tactic.
Popular
street drugs have been laced with a potent narcotic known as “fey
wine”. An import from Faerie, the wine has been known to bring out
latent magical abilities in humans, but this version does much more than
that. It is so strong that it is drawing forth dangerous talents that
were long ago deliberately weeded out of the magical gene pool.
Someone
is making monsters out of regular people and turning them loose on an
unsuspecting and very unprepared world. The Corps cannot afford to fight
on two fronts at once, so Lia gets a new class: one made up of the only
people who might be able to counter these latest threats. It remains to
be seen if a group of sullen, disaffected magical outlaws can come
together to contain an ancient plague before the whole world gets sick.
Karen Chance's Junk Magic is the first installment in the authors newest series featuring Lia de Croissets. The story takes place in the same world as the authors Cassie Palmer series which I presume that you folks have some sort of knowledge of, especially the war with the Gods. Acalia "Lia" de Croissets, last seen in 2019's Skin Deep, is a daughter of a war mage and a werewolf. She carries a disease called Neuri Syndrome that prevents her from shifting.
Because of it, she’s at odds with the were world. She has a bounty on her head from her mother Laurentia of Lubizon's werewolf clan who see her as an abomination. Thanks to her father, Lia is a member of the War Mage Corps, the police branch of the world’s leading magical organization, the Silver Circle. She’s an instructor assigned to train new recruits, a job considered to be significantly tougher than combat—especially right now. There is a war going on in the supernatural world, and the other side has discovered a deadly new tactic.
A popular street drug have been laced with a potent narcotic known as “fey wine”which is an import from Faerie, the wine has been known to bring out latent magical abilities in humans, but this version does much more than that. Her boyfriend, Cyrus Arnou, has begun to rescue other outcasts, mostly teenage boys. When one of them suddenly transform to a monster of nightmares, Lia sets out to investigate. It leads her to a doctored drug that triggers old supernatural genes. And then she is dosed with it herself.
It is so strong that it is drawing forth dangerous talents that were long ago deliberately weeded out of the magical gene pool. Someone is making monsters out of regular people and turning them loose on an unsuspecting and very unprepared world. The Corps cannot afford to fight on two fronts at once, so Lia gets a new class: one made up of the only people who might be able to counter these latest threats. It remains to be seen if a group of sullen, disaffected magical outlaws can come together to contain an ancient plague before the whole world gets sick.
The plot of this particular novel takes a story element we have seen before, and expands upon it. Readers of the Dorina's series about how "fey wine" enhances dormant magical powers in humans. This dovetails into the ongoing war plot that has been going on in Cassie's series for years. Lia is tasked with supervising a group of problem teenage mages. The kind with powers that aren't considered acceptable in this universe's supernatural society. I haven't yet finished catching up on Cassie's series, but will one day.
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