Shy Trans Banshee
ISBN: 9781805463429
Description
Brian, Nik and Darby - three friends practiced in fighting supernatural crime (when Brian's not committing it as a werewolf once a month) - have been sent to London to try to track down a missing colleague. Prowling around the city, they stumble across a clairvoyancy smuggling ring. Who's kidnapping all the fortune tellers in Soho and why? And is it coincidence, fate or something more sinister that Maeve, a timid trans woman taking time out of her job to track down her birth mother, turns up on the gang's doorstep... and has the uncanny ability to know just what's going to happen next?
Reviewed on 13th June 2026
The long-awaited sequel to Bored Gay Wereworlf sees our favourite former title character and his friends move to London, to help look for a missing person.
It took me a little bit to get back into things and remember where we were, but once I'd got into the flow the narrative floated me along in a delightful funny and serious look at the world from an urban fantasy perspective. In this sense it's doing what sci-fi always has and should be able to do, engage with an entertaining story while shining a light back on the real world.
My suspension of disbelief did struggle at a couple of points, and these are nothing to do with the plot, but instead just locations that the author chose for the characters to hang out. Both times were in real food-related chains, and both times they weren't realistic - one in terms of how the characters behave there, and both in terms of what the characters ordered. This was worse the second time, because there was a heavy point made of characters eating something which is so totally not what's on the menu of that establishment.
That gripe aside, I enjoyed a fun romp of an investigation, characters learning from D&D, actual character development, mystery, new characters, and even action scenes, which aren't usually my thing in novels.
Hoping for a book three!
