Alessandra is reading…

Blood & Ash by Deborah Wilde – Thoughts

Ashira Cohen is a PI in Canada, but a certain kind of PI – she can only have non-magic clients. The Nefesh have special magic skills and Mundane people have none (hence, the name Mundane).

Ash is navigating through a world where her mother is a Mundane politician, the Nefesh party politician is up her butt about the legalities of her job, and apparently there’s some heavy magic affecting both Nefeshes and Mundanes that no one can trace the source of. In her personal life, Ash is dealing with the consequences of her father’s cons and ultimate abandonment, she has a surprise tattoo on her head that she didn’t know she had, and ta-da! She’s a Nefesh – completely discombobulating her and her nemesis Levi in what they thought they understood about magic. 

This was a pretty interesting read; I’ve never read any kind of book that has Jewish mythology mixed in with magic and fantasy (and a little bit of smut). 

Although the leftist vibe (I’d go with vibe/feel more than ideology) made me feel like I was reading leftist fantasy fanfiction, I decided to stick through about a third of the way through for the magic and sexual tension between Levi and Ashira. And that’s an important thing to hold – I can read about political ideologies that I do not accept myself but I’ll still read that book because there are other things in the book for me to enjoy. 

I’m glad I stuck through with this one and am definitely on the lookout for the next in the series, Death & Desire. 

Read on.