This is all hard to take, because there is no RIGHT. There's loads of angst here, REAL heartrending angst: Jonah's betrayal, Ben's boundless anger, Jonah's pleading, Ben's stubbornness, two men saving themselves and their future. And he has Crane and Merrick, or as Jonah puts it: When Day finds Jonah, a very much reformed Jonah, mellowed and held by Ben's steady presence, he wants to carry out an appropriate punishment. Stephen Day has not forgotten the torn picture of his lover. After all, I couldn't even write this review without mentioning Stephen and Lucien. This book is set in the magical, complex, whimsical world of Crane and Day and will make much more sense if you read the A Charm of Magpies series first. I don't want to know what was more important than me." He's bitter and resentful, understandably so.īut Jonah had reasons, and he'll tell Ben if only Ben will listen. Ben loses everything: his job, his family, his respect.īen is serious and broody, the earth to Jonah's air. He leaves his lover, Constable Ben Spenser, to deal with the fallout.
He is the man holding Crane's picture at the end of Flight of Magpies. I hope you enjoy it!Ī thief, a windwalker, an imp: Jonah has been used and shattered.
It makes sense read on its own (we checked!) but comes chronologically after Flight and features some of the key characters of the trilogy. This book is set in the Charm of Magpies world ( The Magpie Lord, A Case of Possession, Flight of Magpies). Because if you look closely enough, it turns out that even villains might deserve a chance at a happy ending. I might not use a word of it in the book, but I know damn well why they do what they do.Īnd once I knew why Jonah did what he did, I had to tell his story. And I never write a bad guy without ten minutes' thinking time to get their backstory and motivations nailed. I think you can tell any story from the other side. You see, I don't believe that anyone's a villain in their own head. Jonah does some pretty reprehensible things in Flight. I wrote Flight of Magpies, book 3 of Stephen and Crane's story, and in it, a young villain named Jonah Pastern emerged as a key player.
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