Series
Allie Beckstrom
Devon Monk · 9 novels · 1 short story · 2008–2012
Devon Monk's urban fantasy series follows Allie Beckstrom, a Portland magic-user and investigator whose city runs on magic as a public utility with a catch: every spell exacts a physical toll on the caster, sometimes with severe or lasting consequences. Magic to the Bone opens with Allie investigating her estranged father's murder and uncovering how deep his company's control over the city's magic supply runs; later books escalate the personal cost of her magic use alongside the conspiracy. It's a body-cost take on urban fantasy rather than the consequence-free magic more common in the genre.
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By decade
- 2000s4
- 2010s6
Shape
9 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:urban fantasymurder investigationour worldcontemporarytenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book10 of 10 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Magic on the Linedarkest · calmest
- Magic on the Stormbrightest
- Magic in the Shadowsmost intense