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Oboroten by Catherine Keegan/
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loupnoir. This became my replacement vacation book once my Kindle decided to empty itself and re-download all the books I had read pre-2020. I was scrolling sadly through all the stuff I had already read, looking for something I would enjoy, and perked right up when I spotted Oboroten. I had loved it the first time I read it, and was happy to have a reason to reread it. Set in a world where a few people have magic, the governments of the world strictly control all use of it. Yuri Gregorov and his magic had been a tool of the KGB, but since then he and his partner traveled through various countries working through the black markets to sell his memory-altering skills. As the story opens, they're in America.
Deals go wrong, and Yuri comes to the attention of an Evil. The story follows how he tries to escape and how powerful addiction can be.
Loup Noir's HP fanfic series is one of my most favorite ones, and all the characters from it appear in this book. It was so wonderful to spend time with them again!
While the book had a good ending, I'd really love a second one to see where he goes from there.
DNF #91: Darkness Of Dragons by S.A. Patrick. There are going to be a lot of books like this, one I read a while ago but ended up back on my Kindle during the Great Mess of 2023. Turns out I had read this one in 2020, but since I forgot to add tags to the post, I hadn't found it while searching books to see if I had read them already before re-adding them to my Kindle.
Set in a world where magic is real, but that magic is created only by people who play pipes (like the Pied Piper of Hamelin). It could have been an interesting story, but the characters were just so young, and based on my previous review, the adults are just paper cutouts that the kid characters can play off of. Plus I had real issues with the worldbuilding logic (why would people trust 13 year olds with the most powerful magic in the world?).
Kids might really like this story, but I wasn't the right audience for it.
