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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8045517" data-attributes="member: 508">I finished the urban fantasy novel I'd been reading and picked up another one by a different author but it looks like it's got another "sexy good vampire love interest" so I'll put that one on hold for awhile.  So instead, I started the first of three novels (I'll bet there are more) by Deborah Blake in her "Baba Yaga" series.  This one is called "Wickedly Dangerous," and in it Baba Yaga isn't just an individual, it's a title.  Baba Yagas are women who deal with the weird stuff; the main character in this novel goes by Barbara "Baba" Yager, lives in an extradimensional Slipstream trailer, and has a large white mastiff who's really a shapechanged dragon in charge of the Water of Life and Death (which grants Baba Yagas their longevity; Barbara's apparently 81 years old or something despite looking like she's in her 30s).  The plot involves a search for some missing children, in which she's helping to the local Sheriff in the small New York county where the kids went missing.  I'm hoping it's good, because I've got Wickedly Wonderful and Wickedly Powerful lined up behind this one, in my waiting-to-be-read pile, each featuring a different Baba Yaga.  (I got them for 50 cents each at a library book sale some months back - a small investment on my part.)  But so far, so good; I'm several chapters in and the characters are interesting, the worldbuilding's intriguing, and I'm eager to see what happens next.  What more can you ask for in a fiction novel?Johnathan</blockquote>

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