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Blood Hound
Blood Hound | James Osiris Baldwin
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2016 Finalist - DragonCon Dragon Award (Fantasy) "One of the first things every new mage learns about magic is that-despite your newly discovered powers over the universe-you are forever a struggling speck of krill in a very large, very cold, very dangerous ocean." My name is Alexi Sokolsky: blood mage, occult scholar, and hired killer. Three things that really should convey me some immunity in the dog-eat-dog world of the Russian mafia. Fat chance. I think too much, drink too little, and if there's one thing the underworld teaches you, it's that there's always sharks bigger and hungrier than you are. Life gets tough after a man turns up dead in our territory, his mutilated body scrawled with demonic sigils. It gets tougher when a key ally of my Organization is kidnapped by a secretive death cult... and I'm the errand boy sent to hunt them down and bring him back. Then I get captured, nearly killed, and am immersed in a sea of cosmic horror the likes of which I've never known. The stakes are nothing less than the daughter of GOD Itself... and she's calling to me for help. My name is Alexi Sokolsky: blood mage, occult scholar, hired killer... and hapless pawn in the great game between Everything and the NO-thing trying to destroy it.
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Blood Hound provides a peak into the gritty underbelly of the Russian mafia stateside that reminds me of the classic mobster flicks from my childhood (Scarface, Goodfellas, Casino). This combined with the fact that Baldwin adds a supernatural/magic angle I found myself really getting into Alexi's world and really rooted for him. Baldwin even managed to make me care enough about Alexi and his friends that I got emotional at the end of the book.