Ink Witch (Kat Dubois Chronicles)
Kat Dubois Chronicles • Book 1
by Lindsey Fairleigh, Lindsey Sparks
Why You'll Love This
A hard-drinking immortal assassin who runs a tattoo parlor is either the coolest protagonist you'll meet this year — or you've been reading the wrong books.
- Great if you want: a sharp, morally weathered heroine with genuine mythological depth
- The experience: fast and punchy — 234 pages that move like a freight train
- The writing: Fairleigh and Sparks keep the voice dry and irreverent without losing stakes
- Skip if: you prefer richly built worlds over character-driven momentum
About This Book
Seattle's gods have gone quiet, and immortal Kat Dubois would be perfectly fine with that—if her brother hadn't vanished. A retired assassin who now runs a tattoo parlor and keeps a flask closer than a sword, Kat has spent years burying the kind of past that doesn't stay buried. When family comes first, so do all the enemies she'd rather forget. The stakes here aren't just life and death—they're eternity, guilt, and whether someone who has lived through centuries of violence can still choose to care about something.
What makes this opener work as a reading experience is its economy. At just over 230 pages, it moves with the confidence of a story that knows exactly what it is: sharp-edged, darkly funny, and built around a protagonist who earns every piece of her cynicism. Fairleigh and Sparks write Kat's voice with a dry, self-aware quality that keeps the urban fantasy trappings from feeling familiar. The Seattle atmosphere is specific without being showy, and the mythology feels genuinely inventive rather than borrowed. Compact, punchy, and satisfying on its own terms.
