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Tanya Huff, Direct Descendant

Beim zweiten Wiederlesen erschloss sich mir diese bezaubernde Geschichte der Kleinstadt mit einem Teufelspakt der ganz anderen Art noch besser als vorher, abgesehen davon, dass es wie fast alle Bücher von Huff wieder enormen Spaß machte. Von Lake Argen würde ich gerne mehr lesen.

A pair of cats, the orange boy I'd met earlier and a long-haired tuxedo, trotted out of the open office door and peered at him from the steps, both tails sweeping from side to side. They weren't worried about him; I got the impression they considered his reaction an embarrassment and didn't like how it might reflect on them. Although, to be fair, it was an expression cats often wore.
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The way I saw it, some people had money, some didn't. Money turned some people into assholes. So did poverty. I tried not to be an asshole.
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You couldn't build a relationship on lies, but I very much doubted one had ever existed without a few stuffed into the superstructure.
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(Tanya Huff, Direct Descendant, 2025)