Review:
Lucien Vaudrey's father essentially exiled him to China when he was 17. He had no intention of ever returning to England, but then both his father and older brother committed suicide, making him the new Lord Crane. All he wants to do is settle the legal aspects of his new inheritance and return to China. Unfortunately, either he's going insane or someone is trying to kill him with magic. In China, Crane would have called for a shaman. In England, he finds himself a magician.
That magician happens to be Stephen Day, a man who loathes him for what the old Lord Crane did to his father. Still, Stephen can't sit idly by as someone uses magic for evil, so he does what he can to help Crane. Helping him with part of the problem doesn't solve everything, however, so he sticks around to do more investigating and find the true culprit.
For some reason my brain insisted on depicting Crane and Stephen as Arcane's Jayce and Viktor (a shorter version, since Stephen is only about 5 ft. tall). Maybe because both pairs feature one person who's physically fragile (Stephen recently finished a case that almost killed him) and one isn't?
Anyway, I enjoyed this a lot. Crane and Stephen had great chemistry, and the fantasy and romance aspects were interesting. Crane was well aware that both his father and older brother were horrible people, so it didn't bother him in the slightest that everyone hated them, and he understood when people tended to immediately judge him based their experiences with those two. I liked that about him.
I definitely plan on reading the next book.
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