Review: Skin Deep by Mark del Franco

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Skin Deep (Laura Blackstone, #1)Skin Deep by Mark Del Franco

My rat­ing: 3 of 5 stars

This is an intrigu­ing begin­ning to a series. I’ve played a char­ac­ter with sim­i­lar abil­i­ties in a long-​​running role­play­ing game, so I was par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in this book. I think the author did an excel­lent job of explor­ing just how much could be done with “essence” (glam­our), while set­ting believ­able lim­its to the character’s abil­i­ties. She has an excep­tion­ally well-​​trained mem­ory, but even she slips on a few details here and there when jug­gling too many per­sonas or with some­one very close to her for a long time.

The plot was less inter­est­ing to me, frankly, than the char­ac­ter. In fact, the details are a lit­tle fuzzy and I just fin­ished the book ear­lier today. (Of course, I’ve read most of the next book since then, too). Even while read­ing it, though, some details strained believ­abil­ity. That detail took the rat­ing down a point.

Still, I was inter­ested enough to go right on to the next book in the series, and I intend to read more of del Franco’s work. I would rec­om­mend this book for those who enjoy urban fan­tasy.



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