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A roaring '20s style misadventure centered around an adventurous young career girl who joins a gang of mana hustlers during magical prohibition; I feel like I may have been specifically targeted for this one! Overall, it's a compelling and unique setting, full of fun ideas and a strong story about politics and repression, with interesting characters and intriguing mysticism. It's well worth the read.

It's a compelling fantasy world of diverse magic, where magicians have been forced into hiding by an uneasy populace, much akin to the world of speakeasys and bootleggers in the US during Prohibition. In many ways, <i>Moonshine</i> feels like an intimate side-story in a setting we're expected to be familiar with already. The narrative avoids fantasy's common pitfalls of over-the-top stakes, and instead focuses on the plight of a compelling protagonist and her friends, struggling against a politically hostile non-magic majority as it turns increasingly violent.

The biggest downside was that I really wanted more of its setting; the over-sized ogres work technology, and favor exposed gears, the various other nations are at war, or recently were, the city itself abuts an active volcano that constantly spews ash... there's so much fascinating detail, and by the end I still wanted to see more of it. The clubs visited, the farms on the outskirts, the desolated countryside in recovery, they all left me intrigued, but not entirely satisfied I had seen as much as I'd like to.

That I rate this less than five stars is entirely a matter of my personal tastes showing through; we easily see enough of the world to understand all the action taking place, and the characters interacting in it. My hunger for more should be read as a great testament to the author's imagination in the setting, but the sliver between four and five for me here is that as a reader I'd have loved to see the setting highlighted with a bit more tourism. For example, the diversity among the hero's acquaintance was featured, but it would have been nice to have a clearer idea of to what degree that was natural to everyone in this world, or if it represented a camaraderie encouraged by their shared clandestine association to overcome traditional social barriers. We get the sense such things may exist, but we don't see enough of the everyday world to be sure where the lines usually are, exactly.

Within a unique setting, it's always an awkward balance between overwhelming the audience with details of the alien world and leaving them confused with a dearth of information. Here, I wanted just a bit more. Everything feels right in context, but for me in particular, I suppose I just love an excess of context, and so while the story had everything I needed, it had slightly less than I wanted.


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Moonshine Jasmine Gower Books Reviews

What a good fun read! An alternate version of America has a city like Chicago in the 1920s, only this land is covered in ash from volcanoes. Daisy, a Modern Girl, is determined to dress brightly against the grey gloom and earn her living, starting as a receptionist and errand girl. Her office work turns out to be tangentially involved with illicit magical spirit, Moonshine, and pretty soon there's an assassin in town with Daisy as her impromptu target.

The setting is vividly realised and I would read more about Daisy or Ashland. A small amount of cross-dressing and so on occurs, but this is a minor part of the adventure and need not deter the nervous. This is an adult read, mainly due to violence near the end.

This is an unbiased review.
Stunning and exciting! I have never read anything by Jasmine Gower but that will change. I was initially drawn to the book by the stunning cover so lets get that out of the way first- perhaps the best cover I have seen in years. But the story inside surpasses it with its lush storytelling and characters. What an amazing idea to combine a fantasy setting, with ogres and nonhumans, against a 1920s prohibition era style. There are speakeasies, Modern Girls (ala Thoroughly Modern Millie)), flappers and action scenes that feel vibrant and alive. Soot City takes after its name and even with its shadows, I can’t wait to visit this world again
If we were to look at a map of where this story takes place, I get the sense that it would not just be a map of our works with the names changed.
Though I’m usually not a fan of books based on a somewhat recent historical time period being in a different world, this book made it work really well.
This is essentially set in the 1920s, but it’s not the world as we know it (or...knew it).
There is a lot of unique world building, complete with fantasy races, and society is nothing like the 1920s would have been like. Hence the need for it to be a fantasy world.
Queer people and bi-gendered people are very commonplace, and there is much more tolerance of women and people of color than just a historical fantasy would have. There are female politicians, female hit men, etc.

So overall, this was a fun read with a unique take on a lot of things, but I would have loved to have seen more of the world. We don’t get to see all that much of the magic system, and though there are fantasy races, we only see two but it is implied that there are more of them present in this world.
D-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y

This book checked so many boxes for me. Reading Moonshine was like a breath of fresh air.

✔ Own Voices
✔ Queer rep
✔ Polyamorous characters
✔ Genderfluid characters
✔ 1920's Chicago
✔ Magic
✔ Fantastical creatures (Orgres & Fairies)
✔ Outlaws & Bounty Hunters
✔ Unlikeable characters

Disclaimer I was sent this book for review, which in no way effects my honest opinion.

Daisy Dell, the protagonist is a modern girl of the time. She takes a job in an office doing the usual secretarial job women would be allowed to do in the 1920's, she quickly learns not everything is as it seems.

The plot begins to unfold after Daisy and her friends find themselves in trouble and she learns some serious truth and comes face to face with danger.

The whole city is filled with magic, danger, secrets all of the cuffs are colliding. Moonshine is incredibly diverse, magical and flaw read. The characters are everything I have wanted in fantasy & much more. I hope this the future of fantasy!
A roaring '20s style misadventure centered around an adventurous young career girl who joins a gang of mana hustlers during magical prohibition; I feel like I may have been specifically targeted for this one! Overall, it's a compelling and unique setting, full of fun ideas and a strong story about politics and repression, with interesting characters and intriguing mysticism. It's well worth the read.

It's a compelling fantasy world of diverse magic, where magicians have been forced into hiding by an uneasy populace, much akin to the world of speakeasys and bootleggers in the US during Prohibition. In many ways, <i>Moonshine</i> feels like an intimate side-story in a setting we're expected to be familiar with already. The narrative avoids fantasy's common pitfalls of over-the-top stakes, and instead focuses on the plight of a compelling protagonist and her friends, struggling against a politically hostile non-magic majority as it turns increasingly violent.

The biggest downside was that I really wanted more of its setting; the over-sized ogres work technology, and favor exposed gears, the various other nations are at war, or recently were, the city itself abuts an active volcano that constantly spews ash... there's so much fascinating detail, and by the end I still wanted to see more of it. The clubs visited, the farms on the outskirts, the desolated countryside in recovery, they all left me intrigued, but not entirely satisfied I had seen as much as I'd like to.

That I rate this less than five stars is entirely a matter of my personal tastes showing through; we easily see enough of the world to understand all the action taking place, and the characters interacting in it. My hunger for more should be read as a great testament to the author's imagination in the setting, but the sliver between four and five for me here is that as a reader I'd have loved to see the setting highlighted with a bit more tourism. For example, the diversity among the hero's acquaintance was featured, but it would have been nice to have a clearer idea of to what degree that was natural to everyone in this world, or if it represented a camaraderie encouraged by their shared clandestine association to overcome traditional social barriers. We get the sense such things may exist, but we don't see enough of the everyday world to be sure where the lines usually are, exactly.

Within a unique setting, it's always an awkward balance between overwhelming the audience with details of the alien world and leaving them confused with a dearth of information. Here, I wanted just a bit more. Everything feels right in context, but for me in particular, I suppose I just love an excess of context, and so while the story had everything I needed, it had slightly less than I wanted.