I’m not kidding when I say that my first highlight was on page 2 when Vern was explaining the pros and cons of having sex with an alligator. Mostly because I was laughing out loud at most pages. I saved so many highlights on my kindle as I was reading the eARC of this book.
But Squib is a dragon’s familiar these days, and Hooke is about to find out that Vern doesn’t take kindly to his familiar being kidnapped when an all-out war breaks out in the Bayou between bent cops and a dragon who’s sick of humans and all their shit. Regence Hooke has big ambitions, to create an illegal firearms pipeline and to win over Squib’s mother but when Squib catches him in the act of killing a witness, he thinks he’ll kill two birds with one stone by getting Squib out of his way for good. Waxman is his boss, and he’s got his eye on Squib to take over his duties to Vern while he takes an over-due vacation. Squib Moreau is a juvenile troublemaker gone straight-ish, trying to stay on the right side of the law and working two, soon to be three, jobs to take care of his mother. Now he’s living the quiet life, tucked away in a cabin in the Bayou with vodka, Flashdance and human-free peace and quiet. He’s lived through knights and heroes, and the downfall of all of his kind. I saved it for my holiday, and ended up reading it in one sitting, laughing my ass off the whole way through. I’m firmly convinced that Eoin Colfer is one of the funniest fantasy writers out there, so when Netgalley advertised an adult fantasy novel he’d written, I requested it so fast I’m surprised my mouse didn’t break. I’ve been a fan of Eoin Colfer for a long time (remind me to share one day the story of how I cheated at a test in school because I was fluent in the Gnommish written language from the Artemis Fowl books), and recently I picked up his Iron Man novel from the library. It’s coming out on the 28th January 2020, and it’s an insta-buy from me. Highfire is a 4 star story, with 5 star characters by a 10 star author.
Ain’t nothing illegal about fetching groceries for a dragon. I can get on with earning an honest buck.
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