I uh, I did it again. Yesterday, I read The Midnight Mayor Or the Inauguration of Matthew Swift.  Yup, the whole thing. Granted, I did also clean the kitchen, grocery shop, went out shopping with S, quested a little on Wow, and watched the latest episode of True Blood. Hey, it was a busy Sunday, what can I say? But back to the book.

Let me start from the beginning. It all started in March this year, when the cover of The Midnight Mayor caught my eye on the shelf. I mean look at it, it’s such a beautiful cover! Who could resist picking that up and buying it? When I got it home to read though, I was just a little confused, and took me a good fifty pages to realize that, while a separate story in it’s own, it was the second book in the Matthew Swift series.  Reluctantly, I went back and found the first book, A Madness of Angels. And I’m glad I did.

These books are really well written. The metaphors and the sayings are pure genius, and just the whole concept of Matthew’s character and the fact that the author did such a wonderful job of explaining the complexity behind him, his death and his resurrection with the angels in tow.  I am we and We are me.

My favorite scenes (to name a few) in The Midnight Mayor:  the actual inauguration – really well done, loved the references back to the first book without having the full flash back. And then there was a scene where Matthew and secondary character Oda, were running from the villain of the book. Matthew pulls them down on to the undergrounds tracks, and after touching the live line, spreads blue digital wings to fly them away!

Besides the characters, and the fantastic scenes, I loved that the books offered a philosophy that anyone, and not just those in the books, could live by. Magic is life, but life isn’t always magic. The theme of urban sorcerers finding magic within the confines of everyday things, within the city itself, was just amazing and really, a whole new look on magic.

I highly suggest reading these books!

We be light, we be life, we be fire!
We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven!
Come be we and be free!
We blue electric angels.