Ami's Hoard

Totally took my chance with this one. I mean, the blurb is pretty vague and I am not exactly a fan of clowns in real life (all right, fine, I hate clowns!). But I read Tim Waggoner's before and I needed something different from all those romance. So I decided to buy this (55% discount code at Kobo, yay!) and plunged right in.

Well, I totally LOVED it.

I thought the idea was pretty cool. We have Ideators and Incubus (Ideator is a human who bring Incubus a.k.a. his/her nightmare to life). We have Nod vs. Earth (Nod is Earth's alternate reality). We have The Unwakened, First Dreamer, night vs. day version of Incubus, and so on. I honestly haven't read anything with similar idea -- I guess my urban fantasy experience pretty much play around the usual vampire, shifters, magic, or fae -- so I was immediately hooked.

The story opened with action, when Audra and her nightmare Incubus, Jinx, went to catch a murderer Incubus. For me, that brought up the pace early on. Waggoner didn't start the chapter by laying down the information. Instead he laid them down after the first chapter, and spreaded around afterwards. I saw several reviews that thought the infodump felt repetitive or it wasn't clear enough. However, it worked well for me. I didn't mind being informed as I went along.

One thing for sure, Jinx captured my attention. As a character, I thought he was really strong and engaging. Both his aspects!! The insane and rather homicidal Night Jinx versus the strictler for the rule Day Jinx. I also LOVE the various Incubus (Incubi?) here. They were pretty interesting! Both physically and what they could actually do.

I immediately purchased book #2. Because I am not ready to say goodbye to Audra and Jinx yet.