Though the ending felt organic to the story and appropriate, it also felt like it lacked some of the dramatic oomph you want from a book's climax and, ultimately, I feel like more time is spent (a little unnecessarily) on the aftermath and wrap up than on the denouement. I actually think Heirs of Grace is better than most of it's peers the pacing felt steady through most of the book, only falling down a little at the end. If the book has one flaw, it's the same flaw that inflicts a lot of Amazon serials, one of pacing. And I am just beyond impressed with Tim Pratt for getting that and giving us Bekah.
These traits shouldn't be astonishing or unusual.but THEY SO ARE. She understands boundaries and consent and power-dynamics, she has ethics and holds to them. She's real-feeling and ordinary while still being the stuff heroines are made of.
She's smart, common sensical, and pop-culture savvy. Bekah is both biracial and bisexual in quiet, casual ways that are, even so, very much present in her narrative. That she's the product of a male author is an even more delightful thing. She's the kind of heroine that I've been desperately longing for and so few authors bother to write, if they even know how. But that part itself was great fun and well handled.īut the best part for me was Bekah herself. It's not just the set up, though the premise is one that I adore: someone inherits a big, mysterious house from a relative they never knew they had. Heirs of Grace is a tale of family and magic, action and wonder, blending the strong heroine, cheeky humor, and dark fantasy that have become the hallmarks of Tim Pratt's writing. As Bekah discovers more about her mysterious benefactor and the magical world he inhabited, she's realizes that as tough and resourceful as she is, she might just be in over her head. More important, the junk in her new house is magical, she's surrounded by monsters, and her life seems to be in mortal peril every time she ventures into a new room. Problem is, the house is full of junk.and siblings she didn't know she had are willing to kill her for it. Bekah expected a pleasant year to get her head together and have a romantic fling. Trey Howard, the lawyer who handled the estate, is a handsome man in his twenties and they hit it off right away-and soon become more than friends. Recent art school graduate Bekah thought she'd hit the jackpot: an unknown relative died, and she inherited a small fortune and a huge house in the mountains of North Carolina.
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