Harry Dresden, Atticus O'Sullivan and now Adair Finch! Urban fantasy fans rejoice, we now have a jaded,wounded, heart of gold Warlock to add to our list of Heros. I have not read any of Shami Stovall's other work before...an error I shall be rectifying immediately. 

Time-Marked warlock is the first of a new and hopefully long running series by Shami Stovall in which we meet Adair Finch, a warlock with the power to turn back time thanks to a pact made with Chronos, the God of time. 

We meet Adair at 4:43am. He is a broken man, mourning the death of his brother Carter. Before Carter's death, the Finch brothers were legendary Private Investigators, working together to help keep the mundane world safe from all the things that go bump in the night. Now though, Adair is a shell of his former self, living in filth and basically waiting to die, that is until Bree Blackstone knocks on his door and demands he help find her mothers murderer.

I loved this book! Shami builds a world that is rich and deep and full of potential. A story with a groundhog day type timeline could easily become stale and repetitive but not this one. This book had me hooked and I read it in about 6 hours because I just could not put it down. I didn't see the twists early, I didnt solve the whodunnit before Adair did. In a book that repeated the same day over and over and over, there were a surprising number of well, surprises. 

Adair Finch and Bree Blackstone have stolen my heart and I for one am glad. Can't wait for Book 2