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KEVIN HEARNE hugs trees, pets doggies, and rocks out to heavy metal. He also thinks tacos are a pretty nifty idea. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling series the Iron Druid Chronicles, the Seven Kennings trilogy that begins with A PLAGUE OF GIANTS, and co-author of the Tales of Pell with Delilah S. Dawson.

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Fun and original

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 19, 2022

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As a fan of the Iron Druid series, I had to give this series a try. I think it was worth the time. There is a lot of good stuff here. We have a business manager who is also a deadly warrior. We have a little pink hobgoblin who loves to steal something, anything that isn't nailed down, preferably, though he wouldn't mind making off with the nails if they weren't made of iron. We have a sigil agent who can't speak because someone cursed him so that anyone who hears his voice hates him. So if he has to communicate with anyone, he has to type it into his phone. We have an apprentice who is involved in trafficking fae, but we don't have to worry about him,because he chokes to death on a raison scone on the first page. Of course, it being a Kevin Hearne book, we have a couple of gorgeous Irish goddesses, one good and one evil. I've said enough for now. I want to read the next book in the series now.

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Donna Bull

An absolute delight to read!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2021

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I fell in love with this world and laughed through every minute of it!! Ink and Sigil is set in the world of Iron Druid, but you do not have to have read that series(I have not) to completely enjoy this one!! I will definitely be reading that series after finding this one. This is a contemporary fantasy set in Glasgow, and follows Al MacBharrais, who is one of only 5 agents working for the Fae in our world to help control visits to our world by the various gods and their minions. These agents use written sigils to write contracts with various Fae and also different sigils that can provide quick healing or increased strength. Unfortunately, Al has been cursed and the longer he talks the more someone comes to hate him, so he has to use a text to speech app or writing to communicate, his apprentices also have a very bad habit of dying. When Al's latest apprentice is found dead, it sends Al on a mission to find out why and brings him a new companion, Buck the hobgoblin. Together Al and Buck hilariously begin their search for answers and are lead in some surprising directions as they solve this mystery.
I can't even begin to tell you the number of times I laughed during this fantastic story!! The world is so easy to dive into and such fun, love all the characters and the Al and Buck show is endlessly entertaining!! Learning about all the different sigils, inks and the interactions with the different Fae all while meeting such intriguing characters makes this such a delightful story to read. I will never look at a van with wizard art on it the same again!! So looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

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It was good, but I’m Disappointed.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2022

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I have Loved Every Iron Druid Book and given them rave reviews. This book is well written and has the quirky wit and baudy humor that made the other books great reads. But I don’t understand why the author felt the need to screw up the story by inserting a bunch of political garbage that really added no value to the story. It was as if all the sudden rather than worrying about writing the best Urban High Fantasy possible, the author felt an overwhelming need to pander to a target market’s political perspective. One that I honestly don’t believe most of his readers share. It just got in the way of the story for me, I’d be reading about something and out of nowhere there’d be some political statement or cometary on social justice. I read these books to escape the garbage in the real world not be inundated by it.

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S. Carey

Excellent expansion to Iron Druid

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2022

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An excellent expansion to the Iron Druid series. The characters are great fun and the story is strong enough to stand alone from the Iron Druid. You can read it without reading the previous series but having foreknowledge of the “universe” sure deepens the experience. Read it and listen to it. The narrator as always is excellent.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2022

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If you liked the Iron Druid, thats world and in general takes place after many of the events in the other series. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the next installment.

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Daniel J Marner

Near Hearne's best

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 8, 2021

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A few of the reviews below would have you believe the book is full of left-leaning politics. It's not. Although there are a few jokes at the expense of the previous US administration and it is clear that the protagonist wasn't a fan, politics are far from a central theme and the comments don't interrupt the flow of the story. These other reviews demonstrate that there are "snowflakes" on both sides of the political spectrum. They kept me from opening the book for a while, for no good reason, so I'm sharing my opinion in the hope of balancing your expectations.

My issue was that the author wanted to talk about human trafficking, and addressed the theme rather clunkily and aggressively and with a lot of exposition. Sure, an author can take an opportunity to enlighten and persuade while you entertain, but you have to have a deft touch when you have an axe to grind.

Still, this was a good read. I think I was more engrossed by the first few Iron Druid books, but like this one more than the last few in that arc. I liked it well enough to pre-order the next one.

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what's not to like

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2022

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granted it mostly takes place in the UK, but it's got magic and plays well with it

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Dustin B

Right on target! Loved it!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 20, 2022

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Kevin Hearne nailed it again. Can’t wait to read the next book. Hope Mr. Hearne is busy writing the next in the series.

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Strong start to a new series with delightfully quirky hero...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 3, 2020

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Let’s get one issue out the way – you don’t have to know anything at all about the Iron Druid series, or have first read the books to enjoy this one. It’s an essentially a standalone, with a specific scene added for those of us pining for Atticus and Oberon. So don’t let that consideration get in the way of you acquiring this one.

It’s a packet of fun. I loved the fact that Al is in his mid-sixties and a widower. I am aware that the average hero and heroine are fit young things, full of vim and vigour – but I hadn’t realised just how much that affected their worldview, until I plunged into this adventure alongside dear old Al. He is thoroughly likeable protagonist with plenty of quirks and eccentricities, but the amount of fun between him and a certain naughty hobgoblin is great and helps to leaven the rather sombre subject of kidnapping and trafficking. Humour is always a hit and miss affair, and mostly I chuckled my way through this book – though for some reason, I got a bit fed up with Al’s hacker friend insisting on being called Saxon Codpiece…

Overall, I really enjoyed the story which was well paced, full of action and yet not too full-on to skimp on effectively establishing the main characters – a balance that is harder to achieve than Hearne makes it look. I also loved the magic system, where human Al is given leave to help the Fae by use of magical sigils that are achieved by the spells being sealed through specific inks. It worked well – and this being Hearne, there was also some humour to be had with some of those inks, too. Overall, this was a solid delight and I’m very much looking forward to reading more about Al and his adventures – particularly that curse he’s afflicted with… Highly recommended for fans of quirky urban fantasy adventures featuring eccentric characters.
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A good read marred by ill advised attempts to speak Glaswegian

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 25, 2021

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When such notable Scottish authors as Iain Banks and Ian Rankin publicly worry about the difficulty of trying to write in the Glasgow vernacular, American authors really ought to take note. Kevin Hearne admits he has only visited Glasgow once and it shows, the attempts at writing Glaswegian are very ill considered. In addition to some pretty poor attempts at imitating speech, Glaswegians don't write in vernacular they speak in it, and an English accented voice simulator definitely won't throw in the odd word of Glaswegian. Americans will probably find the language more entertaining than Brits and those of us who actually know the west of Scotland.

All of which is a bit of a shame because the story is fun and I enjoyed it. The use of real locations in Glasgow (down to there actually being a print shop on High Street) is fun and the idea is original. I also liked the fact that the main character can be a bit of a dick at times, it made him more human. The carry over of the Tuatha from the Iron Druid series was welcome, hopefully Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) will pop up in future books!

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Woke nonsense

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 20, 2021

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I love Kevin Hearne's books, especially his Seven Kennings series which are just superb, so WHY, in a FANTASY novel, does he feel the need to include references to current events with a decidedly 'woke' slant on things. Kevin, its YOUR fantasy world - if I wanted to read a book slagging off Trump, men, and the male patriarchy in general I'd have read the Guardian instead.

Leave the woke stuff out and concentrate on just being a very good writer please.

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Somewhat disappointing, unsurprisingly

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 8, 2022

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I came to Ink & Sigil having given up previously on the Iron Druid Chronicles at the penultimate instalment (which had just gotten too silly for me to continue suspending disbelief; I'm led to believe that I missed nothing by skipping the last one), because I wanted to give Kevin Hearne a second chance and the premise seemed to have a lot going for it. There's certainly some entertainment to be had within, but a lot of it reminded me of/helped me better understand the things about Hearne's writing that I don't get along with.

Firstly the good: some of the dialogue is snappy, quite believable for the setting and above all rather funny. The story flows well enough, and the prose is quite readable. Unfortunately, some of the rest of the dialogue seems clunky and unnatural enough that I couldn't imagine anyone actually saying it, the characters don't really have much by way of personality (the good guys all have physical descriptions and are all various degrees of 'cool', the bad guys don't have much going for them at all and don't really seem all that important) and the fight scenes come across as rather flat and perfunctory (seemingly little more than lists of physical manoeuvres which the characters don't seem to have much reaction to, a particular low being when the old man in his 60s has a rib broken and pretty much just tuts to himself and gets stuck back in... Before he's even activated any of his magical powers). Also, Hearne seems to have difficulty keeping his own opinions out of the writing, making the characters occasionally come across as massive fanboys or just tiresome politics bores: the anti-Trump mini-tirade certainly seemed out of place (although not so much as the gammon-faced hordes seem to make out).

This is a book about Scotland written by an American for an American audience, and comes out about as well as you might expect: the main character is an alleged Scot who eats haggis for breakfast at one point, then every other meal seems to be a different dish from various North American cuisines. Judging by the acknowledgements, he may have spent more time researching ink (and then self-admittedly not using most of that information in the book) than Scotland; certainly not enough to attempt any differentiation between the Irish and Scottish branches of Celtic mythology/folklore; he lists two names as sources of his local knowledge but they seem largely to have helped with his written Glaswegian (which is basic but solid to its credit) and then mentions that he talked to Charles Stross... But only about phone hacking.

Hearne actually credits Glasgow as being 'in short, magical, and the perfect setting for a modern fantasy'. Then apparently the next book is set entirely in Australia (and features Atticus O'(Mary)Su(e)llivan the Iron Druid, leading me to suspect that all traces of dramatic tension will be entirely absent throughout). This one was amusing enough that I don't regret buying it, but I think this will be another series of Hearne's that I don't bother to continue.

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Sam Brown

A Great new direction for the Iron Druid world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 24, 2020

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This book is just as gripping as the Iron Druid. If you liked that, then you should enjoy this too. The Iron Druid himself even makes a cameo appearance. Top marks for the author finding a way to go in a new direction with a fresh set of characters and storyline, whilst maintaining enough elements from the original Iron Druid universe.

The story goes along at a nice pace. There is sufficient texture to the characters that they come alive. I enjoyed the location details as it is set mainly in my native U.K. A hobgoblin seemed a suitable replacement for Oberon, with a different sense of humour. I look forward to the next novel in this series.

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