The Silver Stag – Yasmine Galenorn

This book feels like a mixture of too many of the author's other series

This book comes close to being the arithmetic average of four other series by Galenorn. The protagonist is a half-breed Fae private detective. She lives in a Seattle which is modern Seattle plus elves, vampires, werewolves, and any other supernatural creature the plot requires.

“The Wild Hunt” is a semi-official private investigation agency (it’s run by a pair of Celtic gods, so who’s going to tell them ‘no’?) that the protagonist is convinced to join (“if you join us we’ll keep you from being assassinated”), and this book serves primarily as an introduction to the cast. There is very little story.

If you haven’t read Galenorn’s books before, this isn’t the place to start. If you have read her work before, and want something new, this isn’t it. If you’ve enjoyed her style of wish-fulfillment fantasy and want more that’s the same, you’ve found it.