She learns their true identities from Dunrobin Finn, another hob, when she revisits the scene, in the park behind a mysterious house that appears deserted, although Jacky is sure she saw someone watching from the window. In Jack the Giant Killer, Jacky, in the throes of breaking up with her boyfriend and wondering what’s becoming of her life, witnesses (while somewhat more than three sheets to the wind) the murder of a hob by the Wild Hunt (what Jacky actually sees is a small, perhaps elderly man and a group of bikers). (These stories share the universe of Yarrow, Moonheart and Spiritwalk.) Both concern the adventures of Jacky Rowan and Kate Hazel, best friends who find themselves enmeshed in the doings of the land of Faerie that coexists with modern-day Ottawa. Charles de Lint is known as “the godfather of urban fantasy,” and indeed, it’s in that genre that he’s made his mark – he’s never been a writer of heroic fantasy: in a better than thirty year career, very few buckles get swashed, although the two short novels included in Jack of Kinrowan - Jack the Giant Killer and Drink Down the Moon - come close, something of a romp a la Dumas pere - by way of Harold Lloyd, perhaps.
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