Follow Friday {70) A book in your favorite genre that you’d recommend to a reluctant reader

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Q: Pick a book in your favorite genre that you’d recommend to a reluctant reader.

One of my favorite genres is Urban Fantasy. I chose Magic to the Bone by Devon Monk, which is one of the series that hooked me into Urban Fantasy.

The lead protagonist is a tough as nails girl who even though comes from a wealthy family, would rather work as a hound aka looking for people who use magic in the wrong way. She gets sucked into a mystery around a young boy connected to her father, then the death of her father who was one of the most magically powerful and richest man in the city. 

I loved the setting of the city, the magic, romance, chaos and fantastic side characters that just pulled me into this series until the last book. It started big and ended big. 

SUMMARY

Using magic meant it used you back. Forget the fairy-tale, hocus-pocus, wave a wand and bling-o, sparkles and pixie dust crap. Magic, like booze, sex, and drugs, gave as good as it got.

Everything has a cost. And every act of magic exacts a price from its user - maybe a two-day migraine, or losing the memory of your first kiss. But some people want to use magic without paying, and they Offload the cost onto innocents. When that happens, it falls to a Hound to identify the spell's caster - and Allison Beckstrom's the best there is.

Daughter of a prominent Portland businessman, Allie would rather moonlight as a Hound than accept the family fortune - and the strings that come with it. But when she discovers a little boy dying from a magic Offload that has her father's signature all over it, Allie is thrown into the high-stakes world of corporate espionage and black magic.

Now Allie's out for the truth - and must call upon forces that will challenge everything she knows, change her in ways she could never imagine ... and make her capable of things that powerful people will do anything to control.