The Flaws of Gravity: A fast-paced fae urban fantasy

by Stephanie Caye

Overview

Half-Faerie Jude's been playing both sides of a supernatural cold war. She collects a paycheck from the Consilium for using her supernatural talents against the Faerie Court while simultaneously aiding her friend Aubrie's search for illicit magic behind their backs. Aubrie wants more than magic, though, and when Jude finds herself pitted violently against her human colleagues on his behalf, he lets her take the fall.

Without Aubrie's protection, Jude's got enemies everywhere. She's ready to cut and run, preferably to a warm, sandy beach in the vicinity of "The Hell Away from This Mess," but a shady group of Court Faeries captures her first. They want her to steal the spell Aubrie's searching for. With it, he'd have power to merge the human and Faerie worlds. But if she turns it over to these alleged otherworldly allies, she could condemn the unsuspecting human world to a life of servitude under a curly-toed boot anyway.

None of her options are as dependable as a strong drink with a goofy paper umbrella, but Jude's going to have to decide who to trust if she wants to make it to her beach.

If you like smart, snarky, action-packed urban fantasy, check out The Flaws of Gravity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781778064609
Publisher:	SC Smith
Publication date:	04/01/2022
Series:	Gravity's Daughter , #1
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.81(d)

Editorial Reviews

2023-07-01
In Caye’s urban fantasy novel, a part-Faerie, part-human adventurer combats mythological friends and foes.

Jude is a fiery, quick-witted young woman who’s been working as an all-purpose operative during what she calls a “supernatural cold war” between two organizations: the human Consilium and the Faerie Court. She’s quite literally thrown off her game when Spencer Aubrie, someone she thought was her friend, tosses her off a balcony and into a three-month coma. She wakes up to a dubious group of magical Faeries; Jude herself is half Faerie, half human. They have a daunting task for her: She must race to retrieve a spell that would allow the separate human and Faerie realms to merge and then stop her ex–best friend’s plan to rule both. All Jude wants is a carefree life on the beach: “I could almost taste the salt of the first margarita I’d have once I was safe on some sunny, far away beach. Okay, it’d probably be a tequila shot.” She doesn’t care how she gets there—she’ll do whatever job is necessary if it gets her enough money and a passport. The moment Jude receives this new assignment, the story proceeds at a breakneck pace, introducing a flood of new characters, creatures, and abilities along the way. As such, the book almost feels like a sequel, with readers left to play catch-up. Sirens, pixies, sprites, a dragon, and other magical beings flit in and out of the narrative. In this urban fantasy, however, it’s not the fantasy elements that make the novel stand out; in fact, despite taking place in a magical world, Caye develops the supernatural features rather sketchily. Instead, it’s the complex characters that make the story compelling. Jude, a fantastic antihero, is surrounded by equally mysterious players with subtle motives. Indeed, as the story goes on, readers are left to guess who the real heroes and villains are—or if notions such as goodand badeven exist in the novel’s morally gray world.

A brisk and often riveting fantasy thriller with a cast of cryptic characters.

Kirkus Reviews