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Wild Hunt (Evie Scelan #2)

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Genevieve Scelan thought she was done with magic.

She was wrong.

Sure, six weeks earlier Evie--bike messenger, supernatural tracker, and avid Red Sox fan--had been instrumental in bringing down the Fiana, the organization of magicians that had ruled Boston's undercurrent for hundreds of years. But now they were gone, Boston could breathe easy again, the Sox had a chance at t...more

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Published January 12th 2010 by Eos (first published January 1st 2010)

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Jul 11, 2012 Nancy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Full disclosure: The author is a friend of mine.

However, I didn't give it 5 stars out of loyalty--it's a really good book! I enjoyed Spiral Hunt (the first book in the series), but Wild Hunt is almost in a whole different category. In developing the main character, Evie, Ronald has also defined her voice much more clearly. In Spiral Hunt, there were moments when I felt Evie's voice sounded a little hollow--just a few seconds where I thought "she wouldn't really talk that way!" In Wild Hunt, I ne...more

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May 05, 2013 Rena McGee rated it 4 of 5 stars

The sequel to Spiral Hunt finds Evie trying to cope with the power vacuum left behind by the destruction of the Fiana. Since she was the one largely responsible for the destruction, various adepts and other more mundane individuals have been trying to get in contact with her. Meanwhile, Evie’s friend Sarah wants to organize a sort of “neighborhood watch” for the magic users of the city so that no new gangs decide to work their way into the “undercurrents” of the Boston magical scene. (A goal tha...more

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Mar 05, 2011 Jenna rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the second in the Evie series and I enjoyed it more than the first book. The action starts from page one and goes on through the whole of the book. The author does not give a lot of background of the characters, but since I read the first book, I didn't feel as lost in this one.

Things I liked:
1. Nate
2. the Mystery involved
3. the addition of another paranormal element (i.e. shape shifters)
4. the cliff hanger of what did she give up to the water spirit and what will happen to the horn

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Dec 27, 2010 Shannon rated it 3 of 5 stars

I hate to say it, but I was really disappointed. I was not as into this book as I was the first one in the series. I really want to like Evie mostly because I think her power is so interesting. Super sense of smell really is super. However, I am having a hard time connecting her super power to the responsibility that she is being pushed into. If there is supposed to be some left over power from what happened in the last book, it feels a little disconnected and I am just not really sure that I u...more I hate to say it, but I was really disappointed. I was not as into this book as I was the first one in the series. I really want to like Evie mostly because I think her power is so interesting. Super sense of smell really is super. However, I am having a hard time connecting her super power to the responsibility that she is being pushed into. If there is supposed to be some left over power from what happened in the last book, it feels a little disconnected and I am just not really sure that I understand it.

Reading this book has taught me that I need to start keeping a notebook with me as I read so that I can take notes and then later point out more specifically what my issues are. It is so much easier to remember the specifics of something that I think is good. When something is a little off though or leaves me feeling just so-so it is hard to recall the exact reason.

I always try to be careful when reviewing not to retell the story because that for me is not a review, it is a synopsis. I will try to be somewhat vague here but I did not like the development in the friendship between Evie and Rena. Their friendship was one of my favorite things in the first book and I think that is why I am so sad about it. Also, I just can not make myself get into the romantic relationship in the book. Nate just doesn't seem real to me and I do not really understand her attraction to him other than the fact that he seems less repelled than normal guys by her power.

There was one bright spot for me and that is the little girl in the book, Katie. She has some interesting things going on with her paranormal abilities and I think that she is written well. She is the sister of the romantic character Nate and the relationship between her and Evie is an interesting one. I think it is portrayed in a believable manner.

The actual plot of the book was pretty good. Some paranormal creepiness going on. It starts outs as unrelated things but of course they all conveniently end up correlating in a way that was just a bit confusing for me. It was still an interesting read overall. I think my ho-hum tone about it is just because I was expecting to love it. I WANTED to love it but I just didn't.

I am still excited to read the third book. I have high hopes for it.(less)

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Jan 30, 2010 Ellen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recently, I wandered into the branch of Forbidden Planet nearest to my home and discovered this book in the 'new' section. The blurb from Charles de Lint about how Ronald knows her Celtic mythology got my attention and I bought it, not realising right away that it was the second in a series.

That latter fact didn't matter. I do want to read the first book (and shall), but I was able to get into Evie's Boston and her world without having read the first book; Ronald certainly didn't waste time summ...more

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Jun 13, 2010 Melissa Hayden rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: urban-paranormal-fantasy

This book starts six weeks after Spiral Hunt ended. This book starts off with a few different things going on.

First, Evie is summoned to Yuen's side was he passes on. But her job here is to verify, by scent, the ghost of his father is gone when Yuen passes too.

Then you start to see Evie seems to have a new found respect from... or at least response from the undercurrent now after taking out the top man of the organization named Fiana, of Magicians and ran the undercurrent (at the end of Spiral...more This book starts six weeks after Spiral Hunt ended. This book starts off with a few different things going on.

First, Evie is summoned to Yuen's side was he passes on. But her job here is to verify, by scent, the ghost of his father is gone when Yuen passes too.

Then you start to see Evie seems to have a new found respect from... or at least response from the undercurrent now after taking out the top man of the organization named Fiana, of Magicians and ran the undercurrent (at the end of Spiral Hunt). Those of the undercurrent seem to be sizing her up, for one reason or another... Also, her world of normalcy seems to be colliding with the undercurrent work she does, which bothers Evie as she doesn't want to put her friends in harm.

Finally, Evie is visited by a potential client, an older woman who recently inherited chests of her Great-Great Grandmothers and believes they hold stolen items she would like to return to the rightful family.

The main thing I would like to say I enjoy about these books so far is the way Margaret Ronald starts off with a few different happenings and how they come together in the end. All the ties get connected and the lose ends tied up. And the mythology used in doing so.

Scent is Evie's ability to find anything, the descriptions used for scent are great. With Evie being part Hound and the way scent identifies everything to here I could really tell what she was smelling by the descriptions in words.

To me Evie seems to have grown more in this book. Not only does Evie seem to be accepting the Hound in her which is becoming stronger and helping those who need helping, but she seems to be starting to figure out what she is to do to help. Boston is changing or at least the undercurrent of Boston is. She still doesn't want to be involved in the undercurrent world, and the struggle to keep her normal life and the magic life separate is a big one for her. But she seemed to accept that the undercurrent is there and she is not going to be able to stay out of in completely. Although, Evie is a strong enough character in the end of this book that she decides the friend that don't want to know of this world or be around it, that she will protect them anyway she can - verbally not talk of it or physically fight to protect them.

In the end, I loved what happened with Evie and Nate. On all angles.(less)

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Feb 22, 2012 Justine rated it 4 of 5 stars

I rarely pick up a second in a series, without reading the first one. It's just not right. But I broke my own rule for this book, and I'm glad I did. There's enough well written exposition (meaning it didn't feel contrived) that I didn't need it. (Although it's o n my to be read list, now.) The magic system is a delightful blending of Celtic mythologies with other Pagan world mythologies, woven into an intriguing re-imagining of their city. Further, the characters, especially Evie, are very enga...more

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Jul 02, 2010 Joletta rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Fans of Patricia Briggs, Kim Harrison and any Urban Fantasy Fanatics.

When Evie took out the Fiana, the consortium of evil adepts who controlled Boston through blood and fear, she left a power vacuum. In some ways the evil you know is better than the evil that slinks its way into unguarded territory.

An unusual client request has thrust Evie into a world where she feels the call of the Hunt; but is it a primitive instinct at work or the true Wild Hunt wanting to ravage through her hometown?

While Evie struggles with her base nature, Nate is struggling with and eve...more

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Oct 02, 2011 Alice rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, fantasy, horror, thriller, urban-fantasy

I did not enjoy this as much as Spiral Hunt, the first in the Evie Scelan books. I did enjoy it, and I liked the use of Boston as a setting, which was as much of a character as those who had speaking roles. It just wasn't as well-put-together as the previous novel.

This book has Evie getting hired by a powerful and apparently sane magic user, who wants her to figure out which item of hers has been stolen so that she can return it. Meanwhile, Nate (Evie's good friend and potential love interest) i...more

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Apr 22, 2010 Alexia561 rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: arcs, fantasy

This book picks up shortly after the ending of Spiral Hunt, the first book in the series. Evie is still trying to keep her head above water, only now she has to deal with unwanted outsiders coming to town, and others expecting her to step in to fill the power vacuum she helped create. While no one will admit to wanting the Fiana back in power, at least with them, everyone knew where they stood. Now there's a little too much uncertainty in town, and Evie is once again dealing with unwanted attent...more

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Mar 13, 2010 Janice (Janicu) rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I read the first book in this series, Spiral Hunt, last year, and I liked the story enough to get Wild Hunt when it came out this year.

The Premise: This is an urban fantasy series set in Boston, where the protagonist is Genevieve (Evie) Scelan, a bike messenger who also has a side business finding things for people with her highly advanced sense of smell. A sense of smell that is a genetic gift from a famous ancestor, which is the reason for her nickname -...more http://janicu.livejournal.com/97358.html

I read the first book in this series, Spiral Hunt, last year, and I liked the story enough to get Wild Hunt when it came out this year.

The Premise: This is an urban fantasy series set in Boston, where the protagonist is Genevieve (Evie) Scelan, a bike messenger who also has a side business finding things for people with her highly advanced sense of smell. A sense of smell that is a genetic gift from a famous ancestor, which is the reason for her nickname - Hound. In this installment of the series, Evie is called in for a special last request for a customer, and finds out about a foul family artifact and an ill-fated expedition to Boston. Another customer asks her to find out about some objects that their ancestor stole. As Evie tries to do her job, she discovers more connections between the two jobs, and strange goings on in the city, like a call to Hunt which Evie can't help responding to.

My Thoughts: The main character in this series is a working class girl with a little bit of power and a lot of responsibility. She knows some things about magic but it's what she's learned on the street, and it's not very much. She has a small group of friends, who make reappearances from the first book - Rena the cop, her friend Sarah, and Nate, a graduate student raising his younger sister. You need to read this book after reading the first book in the series, otherwise you will probably be very confused about what's going on. I had some trouble remembering things myself, which made me wish I had the first book to flip through, but I remembered the ending at least which is referenced a lot in Wild Hunt.

In this book there isn't really a clear objective for the protagonist other than to try to do a job or two and to do the right thing. We follow Evie in her day-to-day work, and like Evie, we know something is going on, but we don't have an idea of the big picture until three quarters of the book is done. This is a urban fantasy where the heroine does a lot of catching up: she isn't really investigating anything in particular, just doing a couple of jobs for customers and stumbling onto odd things, but eventually discovers connections. Despite being considered one of the big guys in Boston after her role in the last dust-up, Evie is fairly unschooled in magic. The other characters expect her to know more than she does, and then berate her when she shows her ignorance. This was an irritating thing for me - I'm not sure where people expect Evie to have gained this knowledge, and I'm not fond of this device. Fortunately for Evie, her tenacity counts for something, and she comes out stronger than before. It's done without fanfare and a lot of work, but I think that through no plan of hers, Evie gets more knowledge and power each time she has one of her adventures.

One of the things I enjoy about this series is that the author integrates myths I hadn't heard of before. There's the Celtic mythology of the first book, and in this second one there's mythology and magical lore from other places which combine well with what Evie has learned thus far.

Another thing I liked was the romantic relationship in this series. The love interest is a nice guy, and his relationship with Evie feels like real life. It reminded me a little of the relationship in the Kitty books by Carrie Vaughn. In fact, I would recommend this series for people who like Kitty Norville. There is interest in both sides but both people are too shy to admit it, and it's sweet when they finally get together as we hope (thankfully the author doesn't torture us)!

Overall: I enjoyed this one more for the characters than what Evie gets involved in. It has a more character driven feel despite the fast-paced plot, and the author left me curious as what would happen to Evie next. Not in a cliffhanger way, but I'm definitely interested in finding out more.(less)

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Jan 20, 2010 Jael rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites, own

I was pleasantly surprised with this book. The first book, Spiral Hunt, was good but for some reason I just could not get into the story until the last quarter of it.

But this one is fast paced and I'm sad to say over with before you know. I really hope that Margaret Ronald writers a third book, it certainly leaves off as that way.

One of the thing I love about her books is the premise of it, it's something you don't really see a lot of. The main character as a Hound. In the first book you think...more

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Jul 15, 2010 Hallie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

I liked this slightly more than Spiral Hunt, though I liked that okay as well. The first should have worked better, I think, as it was more cohesive in many ways, centring around the Irish mythology of Finn McCool and the Fianna. This had bits of everything, not all of it even connected to the Wild Hunt. The mix of mystery story and myth can be a bit tricky, as instead of just not knowing the whodunnit part, you get a bit lost in all the mythological stories and which ones are important, which o...more

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Jan 27, 2010 CJ - Secret Charm rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: dark-fantasy, familyconflict, fantasy, i-see-dead-people, mystery-meets-supernatural, new-england-fiction, out-of-the-ordinary, sci-fi-fantasy-romance, shifters, werewolves, women-detectives, celtic

Ok, to be brief - I really liked this book. I like Evie - she's grown on me, I like Nate and I adore Katie.

More than that, the plot and the secondary characters continue to feel real. There is enough mythology and reality combined to make this book a smooth ride and an enjoyable one at that.

I'm not going to go into too many details because I'm pretty sure I'll spoil something but I didn't necessarily see the shifter thing coming and I'm excited about where that is going to take the story.

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May 16, 2010 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Disclaimer: Author is a friend. I like her writing and how her brain works in general.

Better than the first book, but I loved going back to the first book after reading this and seeing how much she planted there. Recommended for fans of urban fantasy with a smart heroine.

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Sep 10, 2011 Kelly rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: urban-fantasy

Bought this at the same time as the first book in the series, Spiral Hunt, on a whim. Glad to see there's at least one more in the series.

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Started this one on my lunch hour yesterday, finished it this afternoon. Great read! This one felt much more polished than the first in the series, as if the Ronald really found her groove. Nicely done, looking forward to the next in the series.

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Aug 09, 2010 Kirsten rated it 4 of 5 stars

It took me a little while to get into this (I think finding my way to the urban-fantasy niche), but this is solid fun. The second half really zips along! I'll admit, I saw one or two twists coming, but was surprised by several more.

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Aug 02, 2010 Kelly Lynch rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: urban-fantasy

A little on the dark side for my usual tastes but overall well written and kept my attention. Finished both this book and the first in the series in about 4 days. Looking forward to the next one

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Feb 07, 2010 Erika Badass rated it 3 of 5 stars

I liked it, but I didn't love it.
I enjoy the characters, Evie and Nate, Katie, Sarah. Rena bothers me.
There were a few twists that you could almost see coming, but were still a surprise. It kept me interested. I will read more by Margaret Ronald.

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Sep 25, 2012 Maggie rated it 4 of 5 stars

This had lots of the elements that made the first book great: a complicated character trying to work out her place in the world, her complicated feelings for a guy, people and places described in terms of smells but with a mystical layer on top that means it's not really the same sense we know. Myth coming to life. The world is mysterious; it's fun to learn how to interpret things in it. This one felt more scattered for a while -- more of the book went by before the connections between the piece...more

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Feb 24, 2010 Natalie rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Jul 01, 2012 Scooper Speaks rated it 3 of 5 stars

2.5; I was so bored while reading this one.

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Mar 21, 2010 Carol rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy-sci-fi

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Jul 31, 2011 Phil rated it 5 of 5 stars

The second in the series. Dragged a bit in the beginning but ended with a bang. Great read.

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Shelves: urban-fantasy, werewolf-shapeshifter, female-protagonist, faery-celtic

Decent sophomore book. I liked the first one as well, and look forward to the third.

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Margaret Ronald learned to read on a blend of The Adventures of Tintin, Greek mythology, and Bloom County compilations. Her vocabulary never quite recovered. Her fiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Baen's Universe, and Fantasy Magazine. Spiral Hunt is her first novel.

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