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A review by suzjustsuz
Grave Magic Bounty by Shannon Mayer
3.0
It was cute, and the world is interesting if not terribly flushed out. I assume the author will do that as she moves through the series. Most of the characters are easy to identify with and empathy with them is fairly easy to achieve.
The suggestion of a love triangle wasn't particularly encouraging, and I found the amount of ageist persecution that the MC experienced to be a bit odd. I mean, my forties rocked. They were very good years for me and I never saw much of the ageism that the MC here experiences. I'm in my late 50s now and it's absolutely a thing now, but in my forties I was still having a grand time. My forties were some of my best years, if you don't count the exacerbation of my nearly life-long, slowly progressive joint pain. But my joints hurt in my 20s, too, just more in my 40s and more still in my 50s. *shrug* Oxygen makes you rust and I like to breath. ;)
I'm going to listen to the second and see if the author stops relying on ageism as a trope or device and just creates age empathy referencing the foibles of getting older.
The suggestion of a love triangle wasn't particularly encouraging, and I found the amount of ageist persecution that the MC experienced to be a bit odd. I mean, my forties rocked. They were very good years for me and I never saw much of the ageism that the MC here experiences. I'm in my late 50s now and it's absolutely a thing now, but in my forties I was still having a grand time. My forties were some of my best years, if you don't count the exacerbation of my nearly life-long, slowly progressive joint pain. But my joints hurt in my 20s, too, just more in my 40s and more still in my 50s. *shrug* Oxygen makes you rust and I like to breath. ;)
I'm going to listen to the second and see if the author stops relying on ageism as a trope or device and just creates age empathy referencing the foibles of getting older.