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Original Title: Hard Magic (Paranormal Scene Investigations, #1)
ISBN: 0373803133 (ISBN13: 9780373803132)
Edition Language: English
Series: Paranormal Scene Investigations #1
Characters: Sharon, Nick, Bonita (Bonnie) Torres, Nifty, Pietr, Joseph "J" Cetala, Ian Stosser, Benjamin Venec
Setting: New York City, New York(United States)
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Hard Magic (Paranormal Scene Investigations #1) Trade Paperback | Pages: 329 pages
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Title:Hard Magic (Paranormal Scene Investigations #1)
Author:Laura Anne Gilman
Book Format:Trade Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 329 pages
Published:April 20th 2010 by Luna (first published January 1st 2010)
Categories:Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Magic. Mystery. Fiction

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Welcome to P.U.P.I.—Private, Unaffiliated, Paranormal Investigations

A handpicked team trained to solve crimes the regular police can't touch—crimes of magic.

My name's Bonnie Torres. Recent college grad, magic user and severely unemployed. Until I got a call out of nowhere to interview for a job I hadn't applied for. It smelled fishy, but the brutal truth was I needed the work—so off I went.

Two days later I'm a PUPI—me and Nick, Sharon, Nifty and Pietr. Five twentysomethings, thrown into an entirely new career in forensic magic.

The first job we get is a doozy: proving that the deaths of two Talents were murder, not suicide. Worse, there are high-profile people who want us to close up shop and go away. We're sniffing out things they'd rather keep buried.

Looks as if this job is gonna get interesting. The only problem is, we're making it up as we go along….

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Sort of lame to me. Main mystery/question not answered/resolved.

That magic is too easy, all you need is to want something, and it happens.Still, I feel the need to investigate the puppies' secrets.

Laura Anne Gilmans newest series Paranormal Scene Investigations is a cute, out of the ordinary spin in the paranormal bookiverse. Its set in the same world as her Retrievers series, but if this is your first foray into Gilmans paranormal worlds you should be fine.Hard Magic tells magic user Bonnie Torres story from a first person point of view. Bonnie grew up in two worlds: lonejacker and Council. Lonejackers wield magic on their own. They do what they want, when they want and are not policed.

End of the year cleaning, both my TBR list and my bookshelves. I've read it before and liked it, but couldn't remember if it really deserved its shelf space or not. A likeable heroine and a team-based, forensic approach to a murder sets it apart from other series.The story begins with Bonita Torres post-interview, mulling her trouble finding work after graduation from college. Despite her mentor's objections, she decides to respond to a mysterious invitation to an interview. After a stressful

I didn't finish this and really couldn't get into it. I heard a lot of magical terms I've heard before, like leylines and I forget what else. In spite of this familiarity I was still confused as to how the magical system and it's users worked and I found the characters bland. It never really captured me.

I have mixed feelings about a lot of modern urban fantasy, as I can find it self-indulgent and/or patronising. But this one had me hooked from the first chapter. Bonnie makes an engaging protagonist who is convincingly young without being immature, tough without being a kick-ass cliche, and sensible (a rare quality in UF heroines, alas). A strong sense of place, too, and a properly worked out relationship between modern urban society and magic, with no cheating or special snowflakes. Huge fun:

I actually picked this book up by mistake. I thought I was picking this Hard Magic, but with a different cover. It was short though, so once I figured out I made a mistake around the 20% mark, I decided to go through with it anyway, mostly because It wasn't overtly bad. I did the audiobook version which had a narrator with a particularly grating voice. Luckily, it seemed to get more manageable once I sped up the playback speed.As for the story, it's pretty straight forward, especially if you've