Review: Another Portals Winner!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2014
Gosh, I really love this fantasy series by PL Blair. She has created an URBAN FANTASY that is in-depth, character driven and action packed, in the Corpus Christie area.Our world has many portals that open to other realities. They stayed shut for many years until, suddenly, some of them opened, spilling all sorts of magical creatures out into our world. Now, (as if we don't have enough going on) human beings are forced to live side by side with elves, trolls, jinnis, shape shifters, and every type of magical creature. For the most part, humans are learning to adapt, but there are plenty of bad guys in the magical "realms" and that is where Tevis and Kat come in.Tevis MacLeod, an elf and his human partner, Kat Morales are detectives who, with help from the wizard, Arvandus, monitor and police magical activity in the human realms. Their help is often needed, but never so much as now. The evil wizard, Malthius, has his eye on a piece of land that is suffused with magic- not to mention nymphs, unicorns, satyrs and a wyvern! (Yikes- this creature is closely related to dragon kind... no fire but a poison scorpion-like tail!)It will take almost everything they have, including their own lives to stop the evil wizard from releasing the powerful magic contained within this piece of land. To complicate matters further- Tevis and Kat have fallen in love!Positives- BEAUTIFULLY written and edited. Very nice dialogue and in-depth characterizations.Negatives- none really. A couple of times there was an abrupt scene change but I attribute this more to Kindle formatting than anything else.Outstanding! 5- stars!