Title: Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 #2)
Author: Scott Meyer
Publisher: 47North 2014
Genre: Sci-Fantasy
Pages: 442
Rating: 4/5 stars
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The adventures of an American hacker in Medieval England continue as Martin Banks takes his next step on the journey toward mastering his reality-altering powers and fulfilling his destiny.
A month has passed since Martin helped to defeat the evil programmer Jimmy, and things couldn’t be going better. Except for his love life, that is. Feeling distant and lost, Gwen has journeyed to Atlantis, a tolerant and benevolent kingdom governed by the Sorceresses, and a place known to be a safe haven to all female time-travelers.
Thankfully, Martin and Philip are invited to a summit in Atlantis for all of the leaders of the time-traveler colonies, and now Martin thinks this will be a chance to try again with Gwen. Of course, this is Martin Banks we’re talking about, so murder, mystery, and high intrigue all get in the way of a guy who just wants one more shot to get the girl.
Another pretty fun scifi fantasy romp through time and space. After the big reveals at the end of the first book, I was hoping that we would get to see Atlantis and more of Gwen. Thankfully that has happened in this book. I loved seeing Gwen and Martin’s relationship developed as well as different sides of Philip. I was less excited about the Jimmy storyline. I did enjoy seeing the trials and tribulations that Miller and Murphy went through, Jimmy was still very annoying. He became even more annoying once he arrived in the past. That storyline was really lacking. Thankfully the murder mystery in Atlantis more than made up for that lack.
Magic 2.0
#2 Spell or High Water
#3 An Unwelcome Quest
#4 Fight or Flight
#5 Out of Spite, Out of Mind
#6 The Vexed Generation
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