Narrated by Marisa Calin
This is another one of those audiobooks where I made up excuses to go on errands so I could keep listening in the car -- when I wasn't hobbling around the block, getting my morning exercise/self-inflicted torture.
Fascinating, clever interweaving of ancient culture and mythology and concepts of magic with modern-day (granted, set in the 80s) magic and stewardship, where a vast, magically gifted family patrols England keeping track of misbehaving magical creatures and ancient sovereigns and dealing with weird, sometimes dangerous events and activities.
Into this alternate reality London steps Susan, an art student, who comes up to London before her classes begin to get settled, find a job, and do some investigating. Her mother is either unable or unwilling to tell Susan anything worthwhile or useful about her father's identity. Susan is determined to get some answers.
From day one, she is thrust into dangerous encounters, with gangsters and not-quite-Human people, with police who know what she's heading into and advise her to go home (she doesn't listen, of course), and people who should be trustworthy and wise but are pursuing their own agendas. Then there are Merlin and Vivien, brother and sister -- he's left-handed, the warrior, and she's right-handed, the intellectual, keeper of lore and mental gifts. Susan is lucky to have them take her under their wing, because every step closer to finding who and what her father is takes her deeper into danger, where ancient magic and rivalries have targeted her as enemy and tool, weapon and sacrifice. She has to come into her ancient heritage quickly before it's too late for her, her new friends, her mysterious father, and perhaps the booksellers themselves.
Any chance of another story of the adventures of Susan and Merlin, or other booksellers?
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