Bit delayed in posting this due to the modem dying.
Recently picked up Mercedes Lackey's The Chrome Borne, which collects volumes 1 and 4 of her SERRAted Edge series, which center around the mage Tannim. Tannim drives a much loved and souped up Mustang, and works for Kevin Silverhair and his elven racing association.
In the first half, we deal with a common topic in LAckey's urban fantasy, that of exploited runaways. In this case, the child predators are Unseeleigh elves, and only two of the children get saved, but...
In the second book, we find out about the romance between Tannim's dragon mentor Charliss and Lady Ako, a 9 tail kitsune. Seems Lady Ako slept with Charliss's old foe Charcoal, and the resulting child became Tannim's mirror. Except for the fact that they end up falling in love driving the Mustang around underhill.
It's all fun, even if the tonal changes between books is a bit jarring. (The first half is set mainly in what passes for the "real world", the second spends much of its time elsewhere.) And many of the themes repeat across the setting, which will come in handy when I start rereading Bedlam's Bard. Eventually. When I get through the library TBR pile.
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