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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
In Lynn Crandall’s Move Me, after Dark Sides, a supernatural criminal faction, loses its hold on Auralia, city manager Cassie Butler tries to leave behind the name Diane and the crimes attached to it. Her new life is interrupted when Peter, a surviving Dark Aspect, kidnaps Cassie’s grandmother, Pam Olin, and demands that Cassie use her public position to help rebuild the faction’s power. Cassie turns to Emmett Forrest, a carpenter with secrets of his own, after he protects her from Peter’s men near a wooded creek. With Auralia’s light-powered protectors, the Aeons, searching for Pam, Cassie is forced back toward the people who know what she once did and the enemies who still believe Diane can be brought back before her new name becomes another weapon used against her.
Lynn Crandall’s Move Me is an incredible speculative novel, and Crandall leans into the title with Cassie, whose powers move objects, but also in Emmett, who moves her toward self-trust. The world-building is exceptional. Modern Auralia blends ordinary civic life and Aeon abilities. Auralia’s order is persuasive: city offices, jail visits, police procedure, Aeon teamwork, and Dark Aspect factions all have recognizable roles, and Cassie, whom I love, lives between public service and inherited danger, which gives the world real shape. Crandall has fully fleshed Cassie out, courageous and totally capable, and exactly the type of female lead the genre is desperate for. Where Crandall shines is in visual settings and how they are employed, the standout being a railroad depot house near the tracks, where sirens close in at a critical moment. Readers who enjoy paranormal romance with civic fantasy will adore this novella, as I have.
