Fin's Wrong Ideas

Just finished rereading theCrossroads series by Nick O’Donohoe. It’s an old series, and you probably won’t find it on the shelves at your local B&N. I own the first two books and haven’t ever bought the third one. I enjoy them though so eventually I’ll pick up the third book.

I love the characters, I love the setting, and I love the story. Overall it’s a great read, but some readers may get turned off by the level of detail the author uses in some of the animal surgery scenes.

I have read a ton of fantasy, it’s by far my favorite genre. This book is a branch off of the fantasy tree into urban fantasy. It was originally printed in 1994 so it’s not like a lot of the recent urban fantasy novels.

There aren’t vampires in it, but there are werewolves or Wyr as they are called. Most of the critters in the book are from classical lit: centaurs, satyrs, chimera, and griffins. The setting is a place called Strangeways, it’s an intersection of space and possibly time where people come and go and it’s magical of course. The interesting twist is that it’s about veterinarian students who go into Strangeways to help the magical critters. It’s different. There is a touch of romance to it, but it’s not as prevalent as in current novels.