Moon In The Mirror: A Tess Noncoire Adventure Review

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(More customer reviews)If it doesn't rain, it snows--at least that's probably the most apropos adage for this novel based in a Cape Cod winter. Science fiction and fantasy author, fangirl, and Warrior of the Celestial Blade has more than she can handle, including:
* visits by the ghost of her ex-husband, Dillwyn, who is looking more and more suspicious with each visit
* attacks by Lilia David, a Windago widow whose husband Tess killed in the first novel
* invasion by an army of biting garden gnomes who are in actuality orculli trolls
* appearance of Windscribe, one of her Aunt Moonfeather's coven who have been missing for 30 years
* wedding of her Mother to the father of one of her two love interests
* two love interests
Did I mention her book is due and every time she tries to work on it something else happens including problems I haven't mentioned yet?
But Tess does have one ally, the imp Scrap, who forms into the Blade at her command. Okay, he's an imp--and that alliance does come with a few problems of its own, but Scrap is 'mostly' helpful--when he's not off somewhere else, or painting his wounded rear with iodine, or avoiding the houseguest's cat, who he is allergic to and swears the cat is evil and is plotting to take over the world. (How perceptive of him!)
"Moon in the Mirror" is an amusing rollick that just keeps getting more twisted as each problem arises. The book does keep you interested and occasionally confused--but it's well worth it. You can read this book without reading the first in the series, "Hounding the Moon". I haven't--although I think I might have to add it to my shelves.
By the way, P. R. Frost is a pseudonym for Irene Radford, writer of fantasy extraordinaire. I am probably fonder of Radford's original works than the new additions--my own personal bias is away from fiction with a lead character who is too close to the author's own world, but Radford does manage to pull this story off very well.
Special kudos to Ms. Frost/Radford for incorporating the songs of Heather Alexander, one of my favorite Celtic bards, into her novel.


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