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Hard Magic
Golems are after Janie Wilmott. She has no idea who wants her dead. But she is determined to find out. And put an end to them. All she wants is a normal life. Which now seems distant, thanks to her being famous as a demon killer. And when a man-bird by the name of Garuda shows up to help her find the Black witch who life-activated the golems, well that leads her to a confrontation with the Supers Council. A member of which hired the Black witch who sent the golems after her. Janie discovers a new enemy with the power to harm her, her Café Tribal friends and her squad of buds at the university. With the help of her familiar Abner the black bat, Janie sets out to make her life simpler. And her new romance safer. But destiny has other plans for her.
- GenresUrban Fantasy
233 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 30, 2020
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T. Jackson King
51 books48 followersT. Jackson King (Tom) is an Amazon bestselling science fiction and urban fantasy author. He is a lifelong reader of SciFi/Fantasy stories and his favorite authors have included Darynda Jones, BR Kingsolver, K.F. Breene, Martha Carr, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Andre Norton, J. K. Rowling, Ann Christy, Lois McMaster Bujold and Ursula LeGuin. Outside of fantasy and science fiction he has enjoyed the novels of Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, and the urban fantasy crime mysteries of Darynda Jones.
Tom began writing SF novels at age 38, when he discovered he had read all the Human-Alien first contact or encounter novels in his local library. So he decided to write his own, thanks to an overactive, very visual imagination. Those early years produced FIRST CONTACT and RETREAD SHOP. When the New York City publishing houses ignored his later novels because they had no Hollywood tie-in, he went to several small presses, then began self-publishing as an Indy author in 2011. He loves that readers in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia are some of his most loyal readers!
Before becoming a bestselling author, Tom worked in a radiocarbon lab at UC Riverside and earned an MA degree in Archaeology from UCLA. His interests in ancient history, ancient cultures and journalism got him several government agency jobs that led him to roam the raw landscape of the Western United States where he worked as a federal archaeologist and newspaper journalist.
Tom lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA and hangs with a group of smart and tolerant Westerners. Divorce taught him to smile a lot and to work at being a Nice Guy. Which earned him the love of his wife Sue. Still, he is pretty weird. Has been since fourth grade when he began reading SciFi. Since then, he and Authority have rarely been in agreement. Readers are welcome to visit his T. Jackson King page.
Tom began writing SF novels at age 38, when he discovered he had read all the Human-Alien first contact or encounter novels in his local library. So he decided to write his own, thanks to an overactive, very visual imagination. Those early years produced FIRST CONTACT and RETREAD SHOP. When the New York City publishing houses ignored his later novels because they had no Hollywood tie-in, he went to several small presses, then began self-publishing as an Indy author in 2011. He loves that readers in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia are some of his most loyal readers!
Before becoming a bestselling author, Tom worked in a radiocarbon lab at UC Riverside and earned an MA degree in Archaeology from UCLA. His interests in ancient history, ancient cultures and journalism got him several government agency jobs that led him to roam the raw landscape of the Western United States where he worked as a federal archaeologist and newspaper journalist.
Tom lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA and hangs with a group of smart and tolerant Westerners. Divorce taught him to smile a lot and to work at being a Nice Guy. Which earned him the love of his wife Sue. Still, he is pretty weird. Has been since fourth grade when he began reading SciFi. Since then, he and Authority have rarely been in agreement. Readers are welcome to visit his T. Jackson King page.
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October 29, 2023
I am trying very hard to give the series more stars as I like the characters, plots (soppy at time) and the development of the main character.
But I can't seem to get over the dialogue.
I will continue to read the series as I am interested seeing the where and how far developments of the MC evolve to.
But I can't seem to get over the dialogue.
I will continue to read the series as I am interested seeing the where and how far developments of the MC evolve to.
April 14, 2021
Always a good read but battles for the better trees too
Little slow start but enjoyable to see what occurs next. Certain phrases repeat a bit too often but ya learn to skip when unneeded. Bless
Little slow start but enjoyable to see what occurs next. Certain phrases repeat a bit too often but ya learn to skip when unneeded. Bless
February 1, 2021
This is the sequel to Girl Magic and it is pretty much the same stuff as the first book.
It’s simple and fast reading. Lot’s of flashy magic, fast talking and ass kicking. That’s really what these books are about. The story is really there only to tie these elements together and kind of serve as a mechanism to deliver them. It’s obviously a fairly fast read.
I’m trying to find something more to write actually but there is not much more to it really. If you liked the first one you will like this one. If you didn’t like the first one then you won’t like this one.
Well, I should perhaps mention that the author, again, dabbles in things he doesn’t know much about. For instance, this time he ventures into the realm of chili peppers and their strength.
He got it right as far as the fact that the strength of peppers are measured in Scoville degrees but that’s about it. It’s nit-picking but since I like to cook and like Mexican and other spicy food this latest blunder of his kind of stuck out for me.
Dear author, 2000 SHU is NOT by any means strong. It’s about as mild as it gets. Tabasco, which you mentioned, weighs in at 25 000 to 50 000 SHU and the real monster peppers are above 500 000 (even above one million) SHU.
It really annoys me when authors whacks in terms and expressions but cannot bother to do proper research.
Anyway, it was still a fairly fun read.
It’s simple and fast reading. Lot’s of flashy magic, fast talking and ass kicking. That’s really what these books are about. The story is really there only to tie these elements together and kind of serve as a mechanism to deliver them. It’s obviously a fairly fast read.
I’m trying to find something more to write actually but there is not much more to it really. If you liked the first one you will like this one. If you didn’t like the first one then you won’t like this one.
Well, I should perhaps mention that the author, again, dabbles in things he doesn’t know much about. For instance, this time he ventures into the realm of chili peppers and their strength.
He got it right as far as the fact that the strength of peppers are measured in Scoville degrees but that’s about it. It’s nit-picking but since I like to cook and like Mexican and other spicy food this latest blunder of his kind of stuck out for me.
Dear author, 2000 SHU is NOT by any means strong. It’s about as mild as it gets. Tabasco, which you mentioned, weighs in at 25 000 to 50 000 SHU and the real monster peppers are above 500 000 (even above one million) SHU.
It really annoys me when authors whacks in terms and expressions but cannot bother to do proper research.
Anyway, it was still a fairly fun read.
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