Review: Brandywine Investigations: Family Matters

Brandywine Investigations: Family Matters by Angel Martinez
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Further tales, with the mix of mythology and imagination, all set in the modern world. Angel Martinez continues her wonderful re-telling of mythological gods from cultures around the world. She continues with the gods and their cohorts, in all at their snarky, sassy, outrageous and funny selves.
This series is well written. The blending of myth, mythology and facts, with modern day technology is beautiful done. And this series is just plain fun to read. I’m hoping for more gods and stories. Lots more stories, think of all the gods that still need their own HEA.

Books, Bulls and Bacchanals

Dionysus, the wine and orgy and party god. The god no one takes seriously. And most of the time Dio is good with that. But sometimes, he’s the out of control, angry god. After taking his anger out on another god, even he knows he needs help with his anger. Off to the Eternal Library for help. There he meets the librarian, Leander, the minotaur. When one of his followers is murdered there, the family comes to help solved the case. And the family keeps underestimating Dio too.
The cast of characters in this story are amazing. I loved the Red Panda library assistants and the gardening mushroom dudes. I think of all the stories in this series, this one is my favorite.

Midwinter Dancing

Interesting interlude between the Brandywine stories. The family has gathered at grandmother’s house for a holiday meal. Ingeborg’s grandmother believes in the old gods and magic. As the odd one out in the family, Ing isn’t sure what to believe. But she’d never tell her grandmother that. Out in the forest to gather firewood, she stumbles across a group of dancers giving a lesson to their sister. The sister is none other than Artemis, goddess of the hunt. And Ing invites her to dinner.
I loved that both Artemis and Ingeborg show up in the next story.

Pack Up the Moon

I have been waiting for Charon, death’s ferryman to get his story. Charon is happy with his service to Lord Hades. And if he has occasional twinges in the region of his heart, well he’s still satisfied with his life. A run in with Azeban, raccoon trickster, leaves him missing his pocket watch. Then Azeban keeps coming around, first returning things and then to take things again. Charon is starting to think the little raccoon is doing this on purpose. And that is fine with him. Something about the little raccoon intrigues Charon. He’s hiding something, he won’t tell Charon what, and he can’t ask for help. But Charon does figure it out and with the help of the gang, they fix the problem, allowing Charon and Azeban to have a future.


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