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Paranormal Misdirection (Sasha Urban, #5)

Dima Zales,

Anna Zaires

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Jul 31, 2019 Monadh rated it it was amazing

Shelves: magic, humor, dragons, uf, series, action, precognition

Nero鈥檚 true nature revealed in a spectacular way!

I have been a fan of this UF series set in New York since the first book, The Girl Who Sees, and it keeps getting better. Some of the earlier installments were accused of having too little forward movement in the overarching story arc, so that despite Sasha鈥檚 exciting adventures the series seemed kind of episodical, as Sasha didn鈥檛 seem to get anywhere in her quest to find her parents, but this has definitively changed. At the end of book #4, Slei Nero鈥檚 true nature revealed in a spectacular way!

I have been a fan of this UF series set in New York since the first book, The Girl Who Sees, and it keeps getting better. Some of the earlier installments were accused of having too little forward movement in the overarching story arc, so that despite Sasha鈥檚 exciting adventures the series seemed kind of episodical, as Sasha didn鈥檛 seem to get anywhere in her quest to find her parents, but this has definitively changed. At the end of book #4, Sleight of Fantasy, Sasha finally finds out who her father is and what happened to him. Through her seer abilities she learns that he is held somewhere and being tortured. Predictably she determines to try to rescue her him. She enlists the help of some of her friends and a technologically gifted gnome, but in order to have a chance at succeeding, she has to evade her boss and mentor Nero, who seems to be uncannily able to foresee her movements. As dangerous as the mission to rescue her father might shape up to be, maybe it wouldn鈥檛 be the worst thing to leave town for a while as somebody has gone to great lengths to try to kill her, although Sasha doesn鈥檛 remember making any new enemies that would want her dead, in fact, she just negotiated a truce with a powerful Cognizant (magical being) who didn鈥檛 use to be well-disposed towards her.

Almost since the beginning of the series there has existed a smoldering tension between Sasha and her mentor Nero, but for all that their personal relationship, apart from a few meaningful moments, remained strangely distant, even though it has been obvious that there are felling on both sides. That changes with this installment. In the course of her mission to find and free her father, Sasha is in need of some rescuing herself and who other would show up than Nero. We also finally learn what type of Cognizant Nero is and his true nature is revealed in quite a spectacular fashion.

If I would criticize anything, then it is that Sasha鈥檚 actions often seem governed by impulse. She is rash and does not always consider all the consequences of her actions which leads to unnecessarily dire situations. But as she gets better at her seer abilities (to the point where she can put herself into a kind of trance and foresee all the different kinds of futures that her actions lead to), it becomes clear that knowing the future doesn鈥檛 make the decision process easier, but rather more difficult, as knowing the impact of each small variation in her behavior can affect the outcome, and not in a good way, adds a lot of pressure.

What I really like about this series is the type of different Cognizants/magical beings, many of whom are quite different from anything I read before. I am especially fascinated by the beings that have their roots in Russian folklore like the Baba Jaga, the Domovoi and the Bannik. And although all the allusions to (American) cultural artifacts such as stories, movies, tv-series and videogames may get on some readers鈥� nerves, they set my fan-girl heart aflutter and make my inner nerd screech in glee.

Although the book does not end in a cliffhanger as such, the final revelation is really a bombshell that I did not see coming. So once again I can鈥檛 wait for the next installment to hit bookstores!

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