Trawling Through The Thrift Stores with Joseph Finn
Welcome to Thursday, everyone. Time to see what random nonsense I picked up at thrift stores, resale shops and Little Free Libraries this week. Laurell K. Hamilton is a nice author from Missouri who generally writes a lot of urban vampire and shapeshifter novels set in the St. Louis area, but I'm more a fan of these, the Merry Gentry novels. They're set in a world where the Seelie and the Unseelie Courts have always been visible to humanity and they were essentially expelled from Europe during the Napoleonic Wars, taking refuge under the Thomas Jefferson administration in the serpent mounts of Missouri as long as they kept fairly quiet. But now Merry, who is both Unseelie and Brownie, is starting to wake up the old magic and that opens a whole raft of political troubles in the fairy and the human worlds. Also, there's a lot of sex. Like, Damn. I'm an absolute sucker for exploration stories, and one of the weird joys of Hidden Figures ...