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Bannon and Clare, Book 1
Lilith Saintcrow
Hachette Audio
August 7, 2012/ ASIN: B008U2PIAC
Fantasy / Audiobok - 10 hours, 55 minutes
Amazon
Reviewed
by Jo
Rogers
Emma Bannon is a sorceress of the Black discipline, and a Prime,
the most powerful of sorcerers. She does forensic sorcery, for the
most part, questioning ghosts, etc. This time, she is sent to escort
an unregistered mentath, Archibald Clare, to a safe place, where
he will use his deductive powers to help Emma find out who is killing
registered mentaths and removing their brains and nervous systems.
They are even offing unregistered mentaths, of which Clare seems
to be the last one living.
Emma takes Clare to her home, which distresses him greatly. He is
comfortable, physically, at least. But Clare’s field of expertise
is logical deduction. Magic is illogical to him, so he avoided its
proximity. In the home of a sorceress, he is surrounded by it and
it scrambles his deductive powers to some extent. In addition, she
hires an assassin to be his bodyguard. Clare and the Italian dislike
each other intensely. In addition, there is the introduction to
another Prime who resided in Bedlam. Though deducing the conspirators
and their motives is what he desires most, each time he accompanies
Emma Bannon to acquire data, he is carried home with his mental
faculties in disarray and it takes more than twenty-fours for him
to recover.
This is my first time to read Lilith Saintcrow, but I guarantee
it won’t be the last. “The Iron Wyrm Affair” is
an outstanding story. The violence is plentiful as one might expect
from a tale of conspiracy to overthrow a government. The plot is
twisting constantly and the characters are fully developed. Reader
Moiré Quirk does an admirable job of portraying each character.
Listen to “The Iron Wyrm Affair” and be on the lookout
for Book 2 of the series.
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