Pacific Fire

Name: Pacific Fire
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Greg van Eekhout
ISBN: 9781490693903

Author: Greg van Eekhout

Series: Daniel Blackland #2

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/24/2015

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary

Synopsis

I'm Sam. I'm just this guy. Okay, yeah, I'm a golem created from the substance of his own magic by the late Hierarch of Southern California. With a lot of work, I might be able to wield magic myself. I kind of doubt it, though. Not like Daniel Blackland can. Daniel's the reason the Hierarch's gone and I'm still alive. He's also the reason I've lived my entire life on the run. Ten years of never, ever going back to Los Angeles. Daniel's determined to protect me. To teach me. But it gets old. I've got nobody but Daniel. I'll never do anything normal. Like attend school. Or date a girl. Now it's worse. Because things are happening back in LA. Very bad people are building a Pacific firedrake, a kind of ultimate weapon of mass magical destruction. Daniel seemed to think only he could stop them. Now Daniel's been hurt. I managed to get us to the place run by the Emmas. (Many of them. All named Emma. It's a long story.) They seem to be healing him, but he isn't going anyplace soon. Do I even have a reason for existing, if it isn't to prevent this firedrake from happening? I'm good at escaping from things. Now I've escaped from Daniel and the Emmas, and I'm on my way to LA. This may be the worst idea I ever had.

About Greg van Eekhout

Greg van Eekhout lives in San Diego, California, with his astronomy/physics professor wife and two dogs. He’s worked as an educational software developer, ice-cream scooper, part-time college instructor, and telemarketer. Being a writer is the only job he’s ever actually liked. You can find more about Greg at his website: writingandsnacks.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Molly on April 02, 2018

Sam is a golem. (Which I think is really cool!) Daniel adopted Sam ten years ago. Since then they’ve been running from basically everyone. The high magical concentration in Sam means everyone wants him. Gabriel contacts Daniel, the powers in Los Angeles are uniting to create a living Pacific Firedrak......more

Goodreads review by Megan on December 15, 2017

have not been reading as much as I usually do the last little while. I'm not really sure why, except for the extreme busyness of the world, and the temptations of playing on an iPad when I get home instead of curling up with a book because my brain is just done. We'll see if it changes in the new y......more

Goodreads review by Nicky on October 24, 2015

Received to review via Netgalley Originally received to review, anyway, but I bought it as well after being a terrible person and not getting round to the ARC. Now I’m regretting that, because I liked this more than the first book — it takes all that background, and gives us some more emotional stuff......more

Goodreads review by Yzabel on February 24, 2015

(I got a copy through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.) While I still enjoyed reading about some of the characters I had got to know in the first book, California Bones, I was a little less thrilled this time. I really like the world and magic developed here: dark, treacherous, tricky... L......more

Goodreads review by Kam on February 05, 2015

As a rule, I don’t like gambling. I don’t like taking chances on things that aren’t almost guaranteed to go my way, and I’m not especially fond of risking things that are important to me when the odds of me keeping them aren’t as close to a hundred percent as possible. I’ve played card games, of cou......more