Book two. My friend brought me book three today, forgetting that I had only read book one. So, I went out to Amazon and downloaded the Kindle version of book two. More of same. The baddies are badder and no one can tell the players because there isn't a program! Three factions (at least) are competing for the services of our heroine and noone is showing all their cards. The language of Celtic mythology is familiar from other things I have read, perhaps the Jim Butcher Dresden books as much as anything. Elizabeth Moon went there too - different names, but the makers and the unmakers - and Master Oakhallow was a druid by another name as well in Paksenarrion. I think Madeleine L'Engle touched the concept as well in the series beginning with A Wrinkle in Time. The last two dealt much with the battle between good and evil taking place at another "level" from human existence, but requiring from time to time the participation of humans. Butcher's setting is more like Moning's. In fact, Dresden fits well into the subgenre to which the Moning books are assigned - urban fantasy. Moning goes exotic for the American audience by placing her stories in Dublin. Butcher parks the wizard Harry Dresden down in Chicago to fight his battles with the Fae and the Vampire Courts (not to mention werewolves and knightly inheritors of medieval blades).
And I still think Mac is more spoiled brat than anything else.
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