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Goodreads Monday – Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron

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Welcome back to Goodreads Monday! It’s been a very hot minute since I did one but I figured I might as well get back into it! This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners and it invites you to pick a book from your TBR and explain why you want to read it. Easy enough, right? Feel free to join in if you want to! I’ll be using a random number generator to pick my books from my insanely long GR Want-to-read list.

This week’s featured book is Minimum Wage Magic (DFZ #1) by Rachel Aaron. This is an urban fantasy with magic and dragons and it has a 4.16 star rating on Goodreads with roughly 400 reviews.

Making a living is hard. In a lawless city where gods are real, dragons are traffic hazards, and buildings move around on their own, it can feel downright impossible.

Good thing freelance mage Opal Yong-ae has never let little things like impossibility stop her. She’s found a way to put her overpriced magical art history degree to use as a Cleaner: a contract municipal employee who empties out abandoned apartments and resells the unusual treasures she finds inside for a profit. It’s not a pretty job, or a safe one–there’s a reason she wears bite-proof gloves–but when you’re neck-deep in debt to a very magical, very nasty individual, you can’t be picky about where the money comes from.

But even Opal’s low standards are put to the test when the only thing of value in her latest apartment is the body of the previous tenant. Dealing with the dead isn’t technically part of her job, but this mage died hiding a secret that could be worth a lot of money, and Opal’s the only one who knows. With debts she can’t pay due at the end of the week, this could be the big break she’s been waiting for, but in a city of runaway magic where getting in over your head generally means losing it, the cost of chasing this opportunity might be more than Opal can survive.

Why do I want to read it?

I gotta be honest and say that I have absolutely zero recollection of how I came across this book but thanks to Goodreads I know that I added it to my TBR in May 2020. I wouldn’t be surprised if the cover initially caught my attention because I love the illustration, but the title also piqued my interest, and the synopsis makes it sound like this’ll be a weird but fun read 😃 Who wouldn’t be intrigued by a story where dragons are traffic hazards and buildings move on their own?! I don’t think I actually have a copy on my digital shelf (yet?) but I’m looking forward to checking it out–perhaps even very soon!

Have you read Minimum Wage Magic or is it on your TBR?

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  3. UM WHAT?! Where did you even find this book?! It sounds so freaking cool?!?! I trust you told Sammie about this one since dragons?? Now I am pretty curious on how you found out about this book, and I do hope you end up reading this one soon because I’d love to hear what you think about this one. Great choice, Dini!

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    • HAH! Legit I have NO IDEA how I stumbled across this title but I’m so glad that it popped up on my radar again because of this weekly meme 😂 I wouldn’t be surprised if I found this through Sammie’s page haha but I can’t remember if I’ve told her about it or not either… It does sound like something she’d enjoy huh? LOL hopefully I can get to this at some point (and don’t forget about it again LOL)

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