A non-vampire book about a world where magic exists all ’round. I really loved the imagery, particularly the “tattoos” Allie gets with the power. It had a bit more romance than some of your typical magic genre books /fans face/ and I’ll probably seek out the follow-ups. But it didn’t engage me quite as much as the Cassandra Clare book (one of which I’ve told you about so far (about to tell you about another one!)).

Reminiscent of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. A clockmaker’s apprentice is visited by an angel and told the planet is winding down unless he can rewind the “Mainspring”. And off on adventures he winds up going. There’s a flying Navy (reminiscent of the Naomi Novik books but without dragons), and a lot of watch/clock imagery going on. I liked it, but I felt it wandered about and here, a month and a half later, when I flip through the end pages, I can’t quite recall some of the characters in the final chapters.