Fifteen years after climbing the beanstalk, giants are the least of Jack’s concerns…
Twisted fairy tale figures roam our world in this deliciously dark, exhilarating new Urban Fantasy series, featuring familiar characters from mythology and fables clashing and conniving in a metropolitan cesspit that runs on chaos.
Amid rumors of necromantic cults, children vanishing from the city's streets and men crying werewolf, down-and-out Detective Jackson Slade of the NYPD is at his lowest. Blacklisted by the corrupt department he works for, he finds himself winding up in the same grimy bars every night, nearly drinking himself to death and relying on mysterious magick beans to pick himself back up.
Until, one night, he stumbles upon a gruesome crime scene that will change the course of his life dramatically. When he finds the shattered corpse of egg-shaped billionaire media mogul Dick Dumpty, Jack finds himself reluctantly teaming up with the notoriously cold-blooded outlaw Goldilocks, and together they spiral into the horrifying magickal underbelly of New York City, caught in the middle of a war between the corrupt and the even more corrupt.
Coming up against forces such as the grizzly gang leader Papa Bear and the crooked giant-descendant head of the NYPD Chief Cole, Jack and Goldilocks set in motion an explosive chain of events that will change the world, for better or for so much worse…
Whoa! What have I just read? Fablenoir is an urban fantasy fairy tale and I've never read anything like it before - I loved it! This isn't a retelling but it is filled with recognisable characters from fairy tales, nursery rhymes and children's literature as you've never seen them before. Prepare to fall down the rabbit hole into Fablenoir.
Jack (of beanstalk fame) is a detective in New York but his addiction to magick beans sees him fall from grace. Talking of falls, that's what happens to Dick Dumpty and Jack is first on the scene. It should be Jack's case but Chief Cole sends him packing...right into the path of Goldilocks who is doing her own unofficial investigation. Jack and Goldilocks are such a great team and I loved how their (non-romantic) relationship developed over the course of the book.
The writing is incredibly atmospheric and it's like watching an old black and white detective movie coming to life before my eyes as I read Vic Sinclair's evocative and immersive words. I absolutely loved the refreshing and unique take on such well-known characters as they are rewritten very firmly into the dark side.
Dark, imaginative and atmospheric, Fablenoir is impossible to put down once you pick it up. I was completely mesmerised from the very first page and loved ever second of this original, bumpy and wild ride. I can't wait to continue the adventure in book two, Rose Red Undead.
I received a gifted paperback to read and review for the LBT bookstagram tour and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
About the author:
Vic Sinclair is a writer from the north of the UK. He spends most of his time curating ridiculously intricate character playlists and thinking up plotlines for them on long walks. This is how the grimdark epic urban fantasy series FABLENOIR was born.
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