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Wednesday: sick kid
Jan. 8th, 2020 11:00 pmT. stayed home sick. No fever, but coughing, clearly has a head cold. Let us be conservative and see if it goes better.
I had a nice walk with M.
No date night, because sick kid.
There is a new JAK book, The Vanishing, Fogg Lake book 1. It is really interesting! The protagonist is a young woman who, with her business partner and best friend and roommate, grew up in Fogg Lake, small town in the mountains where after a weird Event some years ago caused many if not all of the people in the town to develop some amount of paranormal abilities, and they are passed along to offspring. The protagonist and her friend — as is all too common in JAK novels — witness a murder as young teens and only barely avoid being caught by the murderer. They do this by escaping deeper into the cave system that was ground zero in the aforementioned Event.
Fast forward, they are running an investigation business and the non-protagonist roommate is kidnapped. Eeek! And a guy shows up associated with a Foundation that people in Fogg Lake know about and fear / hate. They are sort of law enforcement for paranormal baddies, but maybe they are a bit corrupt or at least they used to be. That would be where the other romantic lead comes from.
The two things they are investigating are the same: a mysterious person or persons committing mayhem (murdering collectors of paranormal associated objects, kidnapping the roomie, etc.) while searching for a lab like what was at the epicenter of the Fogg Lake Event. Possibly this group is called Vortex, or searching for Vortex or who knows.
Readers of the Harmony books will feel right at home with all the wandering around in paranormally hot basements and tunnels and caves. Readers of the Arcane books will recognize the Vortex bad guys. Ditto the complicated mechanical objects that kill. The genealogical backstories will also feel very familiar. Other than Vortex appearing as the name of a shadowy bad guy organization with paranormal aspects (specifically, people looking for drugs to enhance paranormal abilities and weaponizing paranormal objects), however, there are no mentions of the usual participants in any of those books. It makes it sort of entertaining to speculate: are these in the same universe? Or just shared motifs?
Anyway. It is a fun JAK outing, and I look forward to finding out more about the roomie in a future book.
I had a nice walk with M.
No date night, because sick kid.
There is a new JAK book, The Vanishing, Fogg Lake book 1. It is really interesting! The protagonist is a young woman who, with her business partner and best friend and roommate, grew up in Fogg Lake, small town in the mountains where after a weird Event some years ago caused many if not all of the people in the town to develop some amount of paranormal abilities, and they are passed along to offspring. The protagonist and her friend — as is all too common in JAK novels — witness a murder as young teens and only barely avoid being caught by the murderer. They do this by escaping deeper into the cave system that was ground zero in the aforementioned Event.
Fast forward, they are running an investigation business and the non-protagonist roommate is kidnapped. Eeek! And a guy shows up associated with a Foundation that people in Fogg Lake know about and fear / hate. They are sort of law enforcement for paranormal baddies, but maybe they are a bit corrupt or at least they used to be. That would be where the other romantic lead comes from.
The two things they are investigating are the same: a mysterious person or persons committing mayhem (murdering collectors of paranormal associated objects, kidnapping the roomie, etc.) while searching for a lab like what was at the epicenter of the Fogg Lake Event. Possibly this group is called Vortex, or searching for Vortex or who knows.
Readers of the Harmony books will feel right at home with all the wandering around in paranormally hot basements and tunnels and caves. Readers of the Arcane books will recognize the Vortex bad guys. Ditto the complicated mechanical objects that kill. The genealogical backstories will also feel very familiar. Other than Vortex appearing as the name of a shadowy bad guy organization with paranormal aspects (specifically, people looking for drugs to enhance paranormal abilities and weaponizing paranormal objects), however, there are no mentions of the usual participants in any of those books. It makes it sort of entertaining to speculate: are these in the same universe? Or just shared motifs?
Anyway. It is a fun JAK outing, and I look forward to finding out more about the roomie in a future book.