Witchmark
I was on the fence about this book when I heard about it. Everyone seemed to like it a lot. And even though it sounded cool on paper, nothing about it really grabbed me. Then Tor.com offered it as their free download last month and I needed a digital book to get me through a few slow work days, so I read it. I'm still on the fence about it. It took me a really long time to get invested in the characters or story. For a long time the book felt unfocused and scattershot, sending tendrils down a bunch of different paths. There was a doctor in hiding from his family until he accidentally runs into his sister at a hospital fundraiser. There was a murder mystery and some suspicious-acting colleagues. There was the mystery of the book that the victim was working on when he died. There was a mystery epidemic spreading through the hospital, resulting in more murders. There was a stalker and a potential love interest. All this in a world where magic and faeries are real, and I had to learn...