Format: Paperback, 300 pages
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Publisher: NYLA
Source: Library
Genre: Urban Fantasy
The agents of Supernatural Protection
& Investigations (SPI) protect people from predatory supernaturals.
This time, we’re the ones who need protection.
New
York is one of the most popular convention destinations in the world—for
humans and supernaturals. Every hundred years, rulers of thhe world’s
supernatural races come together to negotiate and renew a peace treaty.
Meeting in the same hotel are the governors of our world’s goblin and
elf colonies. SPI is saddled with the security nightmare of keeping the
living delegates alive and the undead delegates from becoming
permanently deceased. We’ve got our work cut out for us.
I’m
Makenna Fraser, seer for SPI. Our security nightmare becomes real when
monsters from the delegates’ mythologies begin mysteriously appearing in
the flesh to hunt delegates from every side of the debate. And when the
hotel gets sucked into another dimension, there’s no escape.
We
discover that we’re all pieces in an elaborate and deadly game. A game
about to spill out into the real world. Failing to escape is game over
and not an option. We have to save the world—but first, wee have to save
ourselves.
The Myth Manifestation is the Fifth installment in author Lisa Shearin's SPI Files. Key characters: Makenna Fraser, Ian Byrne, Vivienne Sagadraco, Rake Danescu, Kenji Hayashi, and Kitty Poertner. Makenna and her team are agents for the Supernatural Protection and Investigation group in New York City. They are the Worldwide supernatural police force trying to make sure that humanity doesn't have any idea what goes bump in the night, or other parts of the galaxy for that matter.
Makenna is a Seer. She can see through glamours of various supernaturals who try to hide from her. She also recently got an interesting new ability in that she can see portals. Ian is her partner, and he's supposed to keep her safe. He carries Lugh's Spear which means that he's a direct descendant of the Tuatha de Danann. Vivienne is the boss of SPI and she's also a very dangerous dragon. You don't want to get on her bad side. Rake is a goblin spymaster and has been courting Makenna outside of all his other duties.
Every hundred years, rulers of the world’s supernatural races come together to negotiate and renew a peace treaty. Meeting in the same hotel are the governors of our world’s goblin and elf colonies is a difficult challenge on any normal day. The security nightmare becomes all too real when monsters from the delegates’ mythologies begin mysteriously appearing in the flesh to hunt delegates from every side of the debate. When a portal mage is found dead, Mac, Ian, Rafe, and the team have to figure out what happened. And when the hotel gets sucked into another dimension, there’s no escape.
This book opens the door for even more crossover between Shearin's SPI Files and Raine Benares series. The Raine series fits nicely in the fantasy genre, while the SPI fits in the Urban Fantasy, and Paranormal genre's. I would argue that you likely can not read this as a standalone. I would further argue that if you read the series in order, you will not be lost, and understand the changes that is happening to not only Makenna, but Ian as well. Where those changes end up is anyone's guess. My next stop is to make sure my library has the next books in the series so I can catch up on some more Mak and Rafe fun.
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