Mortal Magic: Stray

By: Jackbird Lee

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Homeless, broke, and preparing to move back in with his abusive family, Sawyer Woolridge is having one of the worst days of his life. And that’s before he gets mugged by an angel and mistaken for a terrorist. Someone is using a supernatural weapon made with dragon’s blood to firebomb buildings in the city of Phoenix. As Sawyer becomes increasingly entangled with the men working to find the bomber, he finds himself falling into danger—and into love. Piccione is a carnivorous angel with a beautiful face and a sharp temper. Asher Thomas is a jealous dragon who wears tailored suits and smells like gasoline. The revenant is a dead man whose name was stripped away in a dehumanizing necromantic ritual. They’re all after the bomber, but they spend more time at each others’ throats than on the hunt. Sawyer never graduated high school and has and no experience with criminal investigation—or the supernatural. But he does have adult communication skills and a dominant streak. Can he convince these three men to look past their differences and see that they need each other? Buy Mortal Magic: Stray if you’re looking for a gay harem romance set in the spine-tingling world of a paranormal thriller. Stray is the first in the four-book Mortal Magic series, with a guaranteed happily-ever-after at the end of the series and no cliffhangers. The romance is slow-burn with some D/s elements.

it should sing Story

I enjoyed the story but the virtual voice it didn't really tell me different voices I like the human voice it was just mechanical but the story itself was interesting.

Okay story, but bad virtual voice

The worst thing about the book was the virtual voice which really detracted from the story. But the story itself was a little simplistic. It started well. I felt like I cared for the main character from the opening. It set up a good opening that made me wonder how the character got there and want him to succeed. The main character was an interesting mix of background and problems that I will not get into because of spoilers. The opening even overcame the bad virtual voice. Then this very non-magical character got shifted into a very magical world and the book started to fall apart. There was no tension or even acknowledgement of this. Suddenly there were walking dead people and angels and other things and he was just like ok. Then the story moved forward with no reason for him to be in it (But that story happening around him was not that bad). I was kind of hoping that it would be revealed that he was in a delusional fantasy the whole time because he had disassociated from his actual life.