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Greenwing & Dart 5: Love-in-a-Mist (PRINT)
Greenwing & Dart 5: Love-in-a-Mist (PRINT)
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Magic is out of fashion.
Murder, like romance, is always a possibility.
The journey home from Orio City was supposed to be straightforward. Avoid being captured by brigands or agents of the criminal gangs; try not to cause any further spiritual or magical shocks; and make it over the mountains before winter closes in. Jemis Greenwing and his best friend Mr. Dart are both fairly sure it's too late to prevent Mr. Dart's new cousin Jullanar Maebh from thinking them utterly mad.
A sudden blizzard drives Jemis and his friends to seek refuge in an eccentric country gentleman's even more eccentric house. They only want to stay out the storm without revealing all their secrets: but the other guests have secrets of their own, and Mr. Dart's ability to hear the inanimate has some unforeseeable consequences.
Blizzards. Unicorns. Ciphers. Noblesse oblige. A budding romance. And that's before the murder.
Book Five of Greenwing & Dart, fantasies of manners—and mischief.
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Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.7 / 5 from 3 reviews.
This was a exceptionally fun read! Most of the book takes place outside our usual haunts, and, in fact, takes place in a mysterious, snowed-in, remote mansion. Perfect place for a mystery! And, as luck would have it (or, lack of luck maybe), there is a mystery to solve. Plus the surprise appearance of a mystical creature. In a series of super enjoyable reads, this one is (so far) unique in the nods to traditional who-dun-its, but stays true to its roots. Loved it!
Scott M. 5/5
After several false starts, I’m delighted to report that this series has finally reached the level I had expected from the other titles in author Victoria Goddard’s wider Nine Worlds saga. Every previous Greenwing & Dart installment carried clear potential and a share of excellent individual moments, but was ultimately saddled with too many elements that didn’t work well enough for me to assign a rating higher than three-out-of-five stars. In contrast, this fifth volume is wholly charming through and through, especially when it shifts gears at the midpoint from a rambling journey to a murder mystery at a snowed-in country estate. Even before then, however, it establishes a terrific genre blend of cozy fantasy with Shakespearean comedy, full of endearingly misfit characters struggling to pair off appropriately — some of whom we’ve already grown to love over the course of the earlier stories, and some of whom only pop here for the very first time. (Roald Ragnor, can you ever forgive me?) To its detriment and benefit alike, this sequence of novels is rather heavily serialized, and so a reader probably couldn’t / shouldn’t jump in at book #5, no matter the leap forward in quality. The present title begins with its protagonist having recently come back from the dead, and rests upon all sorts of intrigues that have been humming along across his various post-collegiate adventures to date. You’d be lost if you skipped over those — and you would miss certain sporadic but genuinely great scenes, anyway — but anyone who’s made the investment and gotten this far into Jemis Greenwing’s tale will find this next chapter a most rewarding experience. [Content warning for drug abuse and homophobia.]
Joe K. 4/5