Why You'll Love This
A reluctant wizard, a Babylonian spirit dog, and a cowardly genie walk into a dragon problem — and somehow that sentence undersells how fun this actually is.
- Great if you want: urban fantasy with genuine comic chemistry and high stakes
- The experience: fast, breezy, and consistently entertaining — reads in long gulps
- The writing: Alanson leans hard on wit and banter; humor carries the plot forward
- Skip if: you prefer serious, lore-heavy fantasy over comedic adventure
About This Book
In a world where magic is supposed to stay hidden, a stray dragon loose in the modern era is exactly the kind of problem that can't be googled away. Kaz Wolfe is back, armed with questionable allies—a dog channeling an ancient Babylonian wizard and a genie whose defining trait is cowardice—and a deadline that tightens with every news cycle. The stakes are genuinely double-edged: contain the creature before it eats someone, and do it before a single smartphone blows the lid off centuries of carefully maintained secrecy. It's the kind of premise that sounds absurd until you're three chapters in and completely invested.
Alanson writes with a sharp, self-aware wit that never tips into parody—the comedy earns its laughs without undercutting the tension, and the tension lands because the characters feel real beneath the jokes. The pacing is relentless in the best way, pulling the reader forward through short, punchy chapters that make "just one more" dangerously easy to justify. For readers who loved the first book in the Convergence series, this installment deepens the world while keeping the irreverent energy that makes Alanson's fiction so compulsively readable.
