"Sanctuary (Roman's Chronicles)" by Ilona Andrews

https://www.amazon.com/Sanctuary-Romans-Chronicles-Ilona-Andrews/dp/1641972912/

Book number one of a one novella book dark fantasy paranormal romance
series. The series is a spinoff to the Kate Daniels series. I read the
well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback
published by Nancy Yost Literary Agency, Inc in 2024. I look forward to future novels in the main series and this spinoff series. Note that
“Ilona Andrews” is the pseudonym for a husband and wife writing team.

Kate Daniels's universe sucks. Forty years ago, the tech world crashed
over the entire Earth and was replaced by the magic world in the form of
a magic flare. Guns don't work, cars don't work, electricity and phones
do not work. But magic works. Good magic and bad magic.

After a week, the tech world came back to a drastically changed world.
And radically fewer humans. And the magic world came back after a
while. And the tech world came back after that. And so on and so
forth. Each world can last a few weeks or a few hours.

Roman is the local Volhv wizard in Atlanta serving Chernobog, the god of Destruction, Darkness and Death. He has worked a deal with his god that
he gets December 23 to December 25 off each year. And his crew of very strange animals has drunk all of his eggnog and eaten all of his cookies during the night. And a 15 year old kid has passed out in his front
yard with a knife wound in his thigh, asking for sanctuary. And
mercenaries are chasing the kid with a powerful wizard.

I liked everything about the story. I especially liked the very clear distinction between the tech time and the magic time. I had never
thought about it that way. The series may be inspired by "Ariel" by
Steven Boyett and "Dies The Fire" by S. M. Stirling except those never interchange the tech time and the magic time, they just transitioned to
the magic time and never went back.

The authors have a website at:
https://www.ilona-andrews.com

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (5,210 reviews)

Lynn


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Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Sanctuary (Roman's Chronicles)" by Ilona Andrews

Kate Daniels's universe sucks. Forty years ago, the tech world
crashed over the entire Earth and was replaced by the magic world in
the form of a magic flare. Guns don't work, cars don't work,
electricity and phones do not work. But magic works. Good magic and
bad magic.

Interestingly, I just finished the "Sunder City" books by Luke Arnold,
which has the opposite plot. That had been a world of magic that
suddenly ended due to the actions of the only non-magical race (guess
who). The world is readjusting to the new reality.


Brian

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On 12/5/2024 1:03 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <virimp$1f3ih$1@dont-email.me>,
Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Sanctuary (Roman's Chronicles)" by Ilona Andrews

Kate Daniels's universe sucks. Forty years ago, the tech world
crashed over the entire Earth and was replaced by the magic world in
the form of a magic flare. Guns don't work, cars don't work,
electricity and phones do not work. But magic works. Good magic and
bad magic.

Interestingly, I just finished the "Sunder City" books by Luke Arnold,
which has the opposite plot. That had been a world of magic that
suddenly ended due to the actions of the only non-magical race (guess
who). The world is readjusting to the new reality.


Brian

I've always wondered what would have happened when Apollo 11 landed
in Niven's Warlock universe...

Huh, I do not have that intermediate posting from Brian on E-S.

Lynn


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On 12/5/24 5:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 12/5/2024 1:03 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <virimp$1f3ih$1@dont-email.me>,
Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Sanctuary (Roman's Chronicles)" by Ilona Andrews

Kate Daniels's universe sucks.� Forty years ago, the tech world
crashed over the entire Earth and was replaced by the magic world in
the form of a magic flare.� Guns don't work, cars don't work,
electricity and phones do not work.� But magic works.� Good magic and
bad magic.

Interestingly, I just finished the "Sunder City" books by Luke Arnold,
which has the opposite plot. That had been a world of magic that
suddenly ended due to the actions of the only non-magical race (guess
who). The world is readjusting to the new reality.


Brian

I've always wondered what would have happened when Apollo 11 landed
in Niven's Warlock universe...

Huh, I do not have that intermediate posting from Brian on E-S.

Interesting - I do have Brian's posting, using Thunderbird, connected to
E-S as the source.

Tony


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Tony Nance wrote:

On 12/5/24 5:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Huh, I do not have that intermediate posting from Brian on E-S.

Interesting - I do have Brian's posting, using Thunderbird, connected
to E-S as the source.

I POSTED it through ES. So that seems like some Lynn problem.


Brian

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On 12/6/2024 2:23 PM, Default User wrote:

Tony Nance wrote:

On 12/5/24 5:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Huh, I do not have that intermediate posting from Brian on E-S.

Interesting - I do have Brian's posting, using Thunderbird, connected
to E-S as the source.

I POSTED it through ES. So that seems like some Lynn problem.

Brian

Well, I don't see it either. I think some problems had been reported
over on the ES groups for that time frame.

I just followed the references back and your message appeared.

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On 12/6/2024 2:23 PM, Default User wrote:

Tony Nance wrote:

On 12/5/24 5:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Huh, I do not have that intermediate posting from Brian on E-S.

Interesting - I do have Brian's posting, using Thunderbird, connected
to E-S as the source.

I POSTED it through ES. So that seems like some Lynn problem.

Brian

I see your posting on news.solani.org. Strange.

Lynn


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