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My Review:Title: Warping Minds & Other Misdemeanors
Author: Annette Marie, Rob Jacobsen
Series: The Guild Codex: Warped #1, Guild Codex Universe #11
Published by: Tantor Audio
Release Date: August 25, 2020
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Iggy Toma
Length: 6 hours and 34 minutes
Genres: Urban Fantasy
Source: Hoopla
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2021 Audiobook Challenge, Lenoreo's 2021 Diversity Reading Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:My name is Kit Morris, and welcome to my warped life.
Picture the scene: Me, an average guy with psychic powers—not that my abilities are in any way average—just trying to scrape by in a harsh world. So maybe I've conned a few people, but did I really deserve to be thrown in MPD jail alongside magic-wielding serial killers?
According to Agent Lienna Shen, one-hundred-percent yes.
But her hardass attitude and “Arcana prodigy” status aren’t enough to bring down my former best friend, who slipped through the MPD’s fingers and is days away from unleashing untold horrors upon the city. Or he’s going to steal something. I don’t really know.
Whatever he’s up to, that’s why I’m sitting in an interrogation room with Lienna. And that’s why I just offered myself as her temporary new partner for the purposes of thwarting my ex-accomplice.
And that’s how I’m going to escape. I might even help with the case before I cut and run.
4 stars — This was a fun introduction to another side of the Guild Codex Universe! I loved that after reading most of the other two series, I can catch glimpses of things I recognize, but in general there wasn’t a lot of overlap or anything.
This was my first listen of Iggy Toma, and I have mixed feelings on him. His delivery of Kit’s humour and heart was bang on. I thought his pacing was great as well! I was meh on his other voices though, specifically his female voices. They just didn’t work for me, or conjure up images of those characters. Now, that’s just a personal taste thing, and I totally get how hard that skill is. I’d probably still listen to more by him, but it’s not a MUST.
Kit was pretty adorable actually. He was a lot more screwed up than I had been anticipating, and I kind of like that yet again we have a main character who is kind of out of their depth. In this case he does have a super cool power, but he’s just barely starting to learn about the mythic world. He was so lonely, and his guard was so high, it broke my heart. He hid it behind his hilarious sense of humour, but I really felt for the Kit underneath it all. He had all these instincts of self-preservation that made me cringe, but he started to figure out his way by the end of it. I loved his movie jokes and pop culture references, and he just amused me in general.
Now, my fave is pretty much always going to be dual POV books, so I did miss Lienna’s POV in this one. But it felt a bit more like Kit’s introduction anyways, so it wasn’t too bad. I can see missing it in future books more than I did with the other two series, so we’ll see how the authors work with that.
Lienna was obviously fascinating, and we did get to see quite a few glimpses of who she was through Kit’s eyes. I loved her soft heart, and her mix of complete competence with insecurity. And, being a fellow rule lawyer, I did enjoy her rigidness and black and white view…but mostly I enjoyed how Kit challenged that rigidness at every turn and opened her eyes.
As with all the books in this universe, I feel like I learned a different angle on the mythic community. I loved seeing how the psychic powers came into play, and the variations therein.
We met some interesting folks in this one, both villains and allies…it’ll be interesting to see if any show up in future books.
All in all it was a totally enjoyable new series, though I will admit I’m slightly less sucked in than the other two series. But I can see a lot of potential, and I look forward to seeing where it goes.
I love these series too but I agree that I didn’t get into this one as much.