Legacy By Gail Z. Martin
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Adventure, Supernatural, Mystery, GLBTQ, MM
Released: Audiobook-May 10, 2022; eBook Sept. 30, 2021
Publisher: SOL Publishing and Tantor Audio
Series: Deadly Curiosities, Book 5
Length: 7 hrs, 48 mins / 265 pages
Cover Design: Lou Harper
Note: Legacy isn’t a romance—it’s adventure/suspense with strong romantic elements. The two main romances in the book are between Gideon (sea captain) and Ramon (privateer) right after the American Revolution, and between Teag and Anthony in current time, and while the romances play an important part in the plot, the focus is on the action/mystery/supernatural elements. (Gideon and Ramon work forbidden magic to bind their souls together forever to protect the coast from a malicious demigod, and because they never want to risk being separated in the afterlife.) There are two secondary romances, an MM one between Dante and Coltt (privateers in the Revolutionary era) and between Cassidy and Kell (MF but nothing beyond a few kisses and cuddles). There is no explicit/on-page sex. Both Dante and Gideon are bisexual, and those pairings are important to the plot.
Also—there are massive crossovers between Legacy (and the whole Deadly Curiosities series) and my Morgan Brice series, especially Badlands, Treasure Trail, Witchbane and Fox Hollow.
A dark witch dynasty. A malicious, immortal undersea place-spirit. Eternal guardians who wagered their souls to protect Charleston.
Omens of impending disaster have the city on edge. Tremors warn of earthquake risk, while a potentially catastrophic storm gathers strength over the ocean and heads for land.
A last-man-standing promise among elderly veterans creates a dangerous inheritance involving an imprisoned, wish-granting goblin. A sea captain and a swashbuckler worked blood magic to protect Charleston from an ancient evil with a spell that bound their souls and their descendants to the task, but danger looms as its power fades. The head of a witch family wants artifacts and secrets—and he’ll do anything to get them.
Cassidy Kincaide runs Trifles and Folly, an antique and curio store where her touch magic helps get cursed and haunted objects out of the wrong hands. More than once, she and her allies have saved the world from supernatural threats.
The clock is ticking for Cassidy and her friends to stop the dark warlock, capture the goblin and restore the guardian spell before a malevolent ancient entity takes its vengeance on Charleston and the coast. It’s going to take all the magic, courage and quick thinking they can muster—and for once, that might not be enough.
Legacy is an action-packed urban fantasy paranormal thrill ride full of dark magic, infernal creatures, goblins and demigods, haunted places, pirate ghosts, found family, witch dynasties, loyal friends, Voudon spirits, secret history and plenty of adventure.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
A great addition to the series!
I keep saying this in every review I do for a Gail Z. Martin / Morgan Brice book: I love how she gives you enough information in each story so that you can read the books as standalones and not feel like you’re lost. It’s so helpful if there’s been a lengthy pause between reading each story.
This is the first audiobook I’ve listened to performed by Courtney Patterson and think she did a great job. It’s often jarring for the listener when the voice actor changes in the middle of a series but I didn’t feel that way with this book.
I loved getting to visit again with many of the characters from previous books in this series. There are lots of spooky characters, a captivating plot, danger and adventure that kept me on the edge of my seat for much of the story. Cassidy found herself in great peril, more than I remember from the other stories I’ve read in this series.
Since I’ve read the books in this series out of order, I do have a bit of catching up to do and I can’t wait!
♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: PG
Gail Z. Martin writes epic fantasy, urban fantasy and steampunk for Solaris Books, Orbit Books, SOL Publishing, Darkwind Press, Worldbuilders Press and Falstaff Books. Recent books include Convicts and Exiles, Sellsword’s Oath, Inheritance, and Night Moves. With Larry N. Martin, she is the co-author of the Spells Salt & Steel, Wasteland Marshals, Joe Mack and Jake Desmet series.
As Morgan Brice, she writes urban fantasy MM paranormal romance including the Witchbane, Badlands, Treasure Trail and Fox Hollow series.
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