Dina is much more powerful when she’s within the boundaries of her inn. The inn is somewhere between sentient and just hugely technological–or maybe both. And as for the Innkeeper, her people run sanctuaries for guests, and go to great pains to make sure those guests are not endangered. Any sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic, and we very quickly learn that what looks like magic is, in fact, technology. Only in Andrews’s version, we take a left turn into science fiction that has its roots in urban fantasy, rather than straight urban fantasy itself. Dina runs a bed and breakfast that caters to unusual and potentially dangerous guests. Ilona Andrews’s Clean Sweep, the first book in a new series, reminds me superficially of Tanya Huff’s Keeper series.
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