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Other London

An Uncanny Kingdom Urban Fantasy (Other London, Book 1)

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A secret city where magic went to hide. An ancient evil desperate to get inside.

Once, there was magic in London, but when a monster made of hunger came to devour it all, the Uncanny were forced to abandon their home.

And so they fled to Other London, a secret city adjacent to their own, and there they hid, barricaded and isolated from the rest of the world.

For 200 years, the people of Other London have cowered behind closed doors. No one can get in, and no one can get out. Until, one day, the impossible happens: Someone from outside finds their way into the hidden city.

Verity Adams has no magic in her - she doesn’t even believe in the stuff - so how on earth did she find herself in Other London? And could she be a sign that something much worse is about to follow her? Something the Uncanny thought they had locked out for good? Something that has been clawing at the door, hungry for magic, for two long centuries....

Get Other London now for an epic urban-fantasy series unlike anything you have heard before.

©2020 M.V. Stott & David Bussell (P)2020 M.V. Stott & David Bussell Fantasy Fiction England Magic
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Enjoyed listening and was glad to see characters from previous books . Heathers narration was perfect .

Mr Trick is going to find you.

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I liked this story.
Got to know some of the uncanny in London Coven which I also enjoyed.
Well written, enteraining.
Narrator was the right person to read book alound.

Good read.

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From the blurb on this book I thought I was going to have an interesting take on the fish out of water story of someone without magic being plunged into an all encompassing world of magic. The character of Verity sounded sweet but meek and I was looking forward to seeing her grow into herself after being thrown into Other London.

However what I got was an interesting, twisting story of mainly male egos duking it out. Carlie and the other male wizards were the main focus of the story, Verity seemed l, for the most part a completely pointless addition to the narrative, the story would have functioned just as well without her, possibly even better as the lack of an actual role for her within the story started to grate on me not long after starting.

There were two characters that I adored in this book and they were Stella familiar and David. Stella is the well written, well formed female character I was hoping to see Verity start to grow into. Everything about Stella expresses strength, but not just in the physical sense, or even in this case magical, but in her ability to just keep going, despite all of the pain, all of the guilt, the ghosts chasing her, she just keeps going, showing a remarkable reailliance for a character who considers herself disgrace; and then there's David. Poor David who met a terrible fate and isn't actually in the story much at all but makes a huge impression with his warmth and likeability from the first moment he is introduced, along with his understanding and acceptance of certain things that just have to be, he gave a very human aspect to Stella's character.

I have to say that MR Trick was a brilliantly fun villan, some of the descriptions of him were truly unnerving.

So overall I mostly liked the book, it was good fun in places, in others it felt repetitive, going over the same scenes again and again from different views but not giving anything new from the fresh perspective which was disappointing. The discrepancy between Verity being very meek and then wanting to stand up for herself, then super meek again wore thin quickly, there was no character growth and the end of her story just felt flat, it was so close to "and she woke up and it was all a dream". I was just hoping for better.

"I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review."

A great concept

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Awesome performance of a great addition to the series. With them all trapped with what’s seemed to be no way out… or is there?

Fantastic

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As always, Heather Tracy's narration brings the story to life in a way that draws the reader in and doesn't stop until it's done. Her performance, the voices, the passion with which she delivers the story serve to make her one of my favourite narrators.
So. 'other London' has come into being as a vault, a place of safety for all the uncanny of London, but is it safe? Somebody wants to get in, is insistently rapping at the doors, and somebody wants to get out. Stella Familiar is back again to save the uncanny, but no, she's changed, 200 years of wallowing in her grief has left her battered and unwilling to help anyone but herself. Is everything as it should be? The great wizard Giles Lemerrier seems to think so.
Highly recommend.

Mr Trick is coming to town, and he's hungry!

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