Lily Yu can touch another human or supernatural being and determine their type of magic and how strong it is. She is also an FBI agent for the Magical Crimes unit, serving as a touch sensitive. This is a very useful commodity in solving paranormal crime. She is also a newlywed, freshly married to Rule Turner, the alpha of the local Lupi's, a wolf shifter pack. As MIND MAGIC begins, she is being sent out of state to investigate a murder suspected to be magic related. Lily also comes across a young woman trying to save her friends from a shadowy group who are keeping them hostage to use their magical talents for their own nefarious ends. It is not long before Lily discovers that these two investigations lead to the same perpetrators.

MIND MAGIC is a good read, so much better than the last book. We are back to Lily and Rule here, and where the focus is firmly on Lupi politics (which I enjoy), and the magical world of the series inhabitants. You can tell from the cover that the Dragons feature prominently in the story, as well as another group of supernatural beings that don't make it into too many urban fantasy/ paranormal romance books. The whole story here was a bit different for UF, and in a good way.

There are two reasons this was not quite a five-star read for me. One was that the ending was a tad too rushed and anti-climactic after all the buildup. The other was that the storyline was a little slow to get going. There were three threads, and two of them were a bit of dry reading. It wasn't until Lily and Demi met up and the three threads began to converge that the book truly captured my full interest. From there, the storyline took off and never looked back.

It's really great to know that this far into the World of the Lupi series that author Eileen Wilks still has great plotlines and a firm handle on the general series arc. MIND MAGIC is not the place to start reading the series, however. There is too much backstory to easily pick up this far into the series, but World of the Lupi is a great UF series to start at the beginning.

Book Summary

FBI agent Lily Yu’s mind is a dangerous place to be in the latest Novel of the Lupi…

Thanks to the mindspeech lessons she’s receiving from the black dragon, Lily is temporarily benched from Unit Twelve—until her brain acclimates and the risk of total burnout passes. At least she has her new husband, lupi Rule Turner, to keep her occupied.

But when her mentor calls in a favor and sends Lily to a murder scene, she’s suddenly back on active status—despite the hallucinations she can’t keep at bay.  With one touch, Lily knows the man was killed by magic, but her senses don’t warn her how far the conspiracy goes…

A shadowy force within the government wants to take Unit Twelve down, and they don't mind killing to achieve their goal. With none of her usual resources, Lily is up against impossible odds—because with her mind in disarray, she can’t trust anything she sees.