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Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron
4.0
This was a great story with fun characters and a well developed world. The blend of sci-fi and magic was great, too.
Opal lives in a city that’s really a god. She’s trying to pay off her debt to her father so she can gain her freedom from him. He’s a dragon. And in between trying to make enough money, she gets involved over her head in a secret that risks her life. It’s worth millions. If she stays alive and free long enough to solves it.
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Content:
Religion:
We hear how gods and goddesses magically reappeared one day, and battle for control of various cities, and new gods were created. There are numerous gods for everything, including death, each with their own priests and with their own limits and areas of control. The city itself is a goddess, a special kind, a blend of physical and ideal gods, therefore she exists on the physical and the abstract realm. In one scene Opal encounters the Sea of Magic, "the realm of spirits, source of all magic, and the place our souls go when we die", and thinking how she's glad there are gods to guide them through this.
Violence:
Gangs, gun chases, and dead bodies. There’s also a scene where Opal steals from an artificial hand off a dead body, and sees giant smokestacks
Romance:
Opal offers random tiabout her love life in the narrative, such as the fact that she's not a virgin, though there are no explicit details given. Her dragon “dad” mated her mom with someone else to get her, and, as she explains to Nick, it was all done through the mail. A romance starts to develop between them, and she stays in his apartment for a few scenes, though it doesn’t go anywhere in this novel. There are also many people with cyber body parts in the novel. One is a creepy woman whose entire body is artificial who tells Opal "I don't like men, and I don't take lovers who don't have at least as much cyber as I do." Opal and Nick also enter a brothel in one scene, though Nick makes it known he doesn't believe in paying for such things.
Language: some cursing
Opal lives in a city that’s really a god. She’s trying to pay off her debt to her father so she can gain her freedom from him. He’s a dragon. And in between trying to make enough money, she gets involved over her head in a secret that risks her life. It’s worth millions. If she stays alive and free long enough to solves it.
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[b:Clean Sweep|19090384|Clean Sweep (Innkeeper Chronicles, #1)|Ilona Andrews|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1385939257l/19090384._SY75_.jpg|21910727]
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Content:
Religion:
We hear how gods and goddesses magically reappeared one day, and battle for control of various cities, and new gods were created. There are numerous gods for everything, including death, each with their own priests and with their own limits and areas of control. The city itself is a goddess, a special kind, a blend of physical and ideal gods, therefore she exists on the physical and the abstract realm. In one scene Opal encounters the Sea of Magic, "the realm of spirits, source of all magic, and the place our souls go when we die", and thinking how she's glad there are gods to guide them through this.
Violence:
Gangs, gun chases, and dead bodies. There’s also a scene where Opal steals from an artificial hand off a dead body, and sees giant smokestacks
Romance:
Opal offers random tiabout her love life in the narrative, such as the fact that she's not a virgin, though there are no explicit details given. Her dragon “dad” mated her mom with someone else to get her, and, as she explains to Nick, it was all done through the mail. A romance starts to develop between them, and she stays in his apartment for a few scenes, though it doesn’t go anywhere in this novel. There are also many people with cyber body parts in the novel. One is a creepy woman whose entire body is artificial who tells Opal "I don't like men, and I don't take lovers who don't have at least as much cyber as I do." Opal and Nick also enter a brothel in one scene, though Nick makes it known he doesn't believe in paying for such things.
Language: some cursing