The Identity Thief by Alex Bryant
Book one in the god machine series
Paperback published by K & M books
A shapeshifting sorcerer called Cuttlefish unleashes a terrifying wave of magical carnage across London. A strange family known as the River People move into Cassandra Drake’s neighbourhood. Are the two events connected?
✔ Good cover.
✔ Cheap. Seriously, the Kindle version only costs as much as about 3 mangoes. What would you rather have – 10 hours of gripping urban fantasy, or 30 minutes of biting into sweet, succulent mango flesh?
✔ OK, I shouldn’t have used mango, objectively the best fruit, as a comparison. But buying this book doesn’t stop you from buying mangoes, if that’s what you insist on doing.
My review
I loved the authors imagination. I always love to know how an author came up with their idea. Alex Bryant first germ of the idea for this novel came to him when he was just 16. He dreamt one of the scenes incredibly vividly and it survived almost unchanged into the final draft. It took Alex 13 years of delevoping this world and filling it with characters starting with shapeshifting and the manic Cuttlefish.
I can see that careful planning of this story has set some twists. I’m Being courteous here not to do a spoiler alert. Six similar magical attacks have been reported around London of victims phoning the police that they had a break in. Once the police have arrived each person has been found unconscious, with no signs of the perpetrator and with no theft being accounted for. In each case there is no clear motive for the break in or the attacks. Magical crime is on the increase. What home owners are being given is 10 steps to make their house magical proof. Well you don’t get magical crime books like The Identity Thief, that’s why I am today highly recommending The Identity Thief by Alex Bryant.
My thanks to
I would like to thank Kelly @LoveBooksGroup for sending me The Identity Thief to read and review and for inviting me to be part of the blog tour today.
About author Alex Bryant
Alex has led a largely comfortable but unremarkable life in North London, and more recently Oxford. His main hobbies as a kid were reading and sulking.
When he’s not writing, he’s performing with his improvised comedy troupe, Hivemind Improv. And when he is writing, he’s procrastinating.
The first idea for The God Machine came when he was 19, shortly after falling off a horse. Or possibly shortly before – the exact chronology is lost to history. So is the horse’s name, in case you were wondering.
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