Oh, and by the way, Al has a more obvious curse – the longer people hear his voice and talk with him, the greater their disdain for him will grow. Hearne, always ready with a pun, gives the goblin the name of Buck Foi. For starters, his apprentice had a goblin trapped, which Al eventually hires to be his assistant. When one Al’s latest apprentice is killed (and the seventh apprentice he’s taken under his wing), events are set in motion. Although it is set in the same world as The Iron Druid Chronicles, aside from a mention of the main character and his hound, zero foreknowledge of those books is required for readers to being reading about Al’s story. OK, one thing to get out of the way… Ink & Sigil is a great entry into Kevin Hearne’s fiction. Investigating his apprentice’s death will take him through Scotland’s magical underworld, and he’ll need the help of a mischievous hobgoblin if he’s to survive. Now Al is forced to play detective-while avoiding actual detectives who are wondering why death seems to always follow Al.
INK AND SIGIL CRACK
As his personal life crumbles around him, he devotes his life to his work, all the while trying to crack the secret of his curse.īut when his latest apprentice, Gordie, turns up dead in his Glasgow flat, Al discovers evidence that Gordie was living a secret life of crime. And his apprentices keep dying in peculiar freak accidents. Anyone who hears his voice will begin to feel an inexplicable hatred for Al, so he can only communicate through the written word or speech apps. He can cast spells with enchanted ink and he uses his gifts to protect our world from rogue minions of various pantheons, especially the Fae.īut he is also cursed. He is blessed with an extraordinary white moustache, an appreciation for craft cocktails-and a most unique magical talent.
INK AND SIGIL SERIES
New York Times bestselling author Kevin Hearne returns to the world of his beloved Iron Druid Chronicles in a spin-off series about an eccentric master of rare magic solving an uncanny mystery in Scotland.Īl MacBharrais is both blessed and cursed. Set in the same world of deities and world mythologies of The Iron Druid Saga, Ink & Sigil focuses on an older, mustachioed gentleman by the name of Aloysius (Al) MacBaharrais who is one of a select group of people who are essentially deputies charged with keeping rogue gods and deities in check though the use of magical Sigils.
Well, with Ink & Sigil, another series is added to that impressive oeuvre. Kevin Hearne has become a force in the genre since he launched his career with The Iron Druid Saga, adding two more series to his resume in that time.
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