{"id":1692,"date":"2009-11-23T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2009-11-23T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T17:44:09","slug":"the-better-part-of-darkness-kelly-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"The Better Part of Darkness &#8211; Kelly Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/better-part-darkness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1693 alignleft\" title=\"better.part.darkness\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/better-part-darkness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>Charlie Madigan is a single mom raising her daughter in post-Revelation Atlanta. She&#8217;s also an Integration Task Force agent for the Atlanta police, a position she takes seriously and, along with her partner, Hank, it&#8217;s a job she does well.<\/p>\n<p>When a new addictive substance, a drug known as <em>ash<\/em>, hits her streets, Charlie&#8217;s job is to find out where it originates from and to shut down the operation. Things get complicated when all signs point to an off-worlder noble, a man with power to spare, and a position that brooks no challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie&#8217;s life, however, is about to take a dangerous turn as powers of her own start manifesting, powers that seem to stem from her recent resurrection from death.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Better Part of Darkness<\/em>, Kelly Gay has introduced a world filled with goblins and jinn, mages and sirens, all aliens to America from their off-world homes of Charbydon and Elysia. The world-building is strong and ever present, and Gay does a comendable job keeping the reader to pace with it all. Another appeal is Charlie &#8211; a woman torn up by her past while trying to navigate a shaky future. The other characters that populate this new vision of Atlanta are, mostly, just as well drawn. Sympathetic, intriguing, vile&#8230;all words that come to mind and can be applied to a number of the &#8220;people&#8221; we meet during the course of the novel.<\/p>\n<p>While solidly urban fantasy, <em>The Better Part of Darkness<\/em> also has shades of a police procedural, with a mystery thread that amps up the action and tension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Madigan is a single mom raising her daughter in post-Revelation Atlanta. She&#8217;s also an Integration Task Force agent for the Atlanta police, a position she takes seriously and, along with her partner, Hank, it&#8217;s a job she does well. When a new addictive substance, a drug known as ash, hits her streets, Charlie&#8217;s job&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-fantasy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-ri","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}