She walks both worlds, while not quite fitting comfortably in either. Verity Fassbinder is half-human and half-Weyrd. It’s been done to death over the decades and I really wish people wouldn’t keep doing it. This is another thing I don’t generally like, giving something/someone a name which is more or less a variant spelling of a word that sort of describes them. Those assorted supernatural beings are referred to as ‘The Weyrd’. Worlds that have every sort of mythological being you ever heard of somehow living secretly, side by side with humanity are not generally my favourite settings but, occasionally, I find an author who somehow gets away with it. Having said that, I generally prefer the supernatural element to not be too common. I’ve always been a fan of stories that combine detective fiction with the supernatural. When I saw this in the SFCrowsnest list of unclaimed review copies, it immediately struck me as something I might like.
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