Leila and Rigel are all loved up now. They discovered who was trying to kill her and I began to suspect it early oFantastic conclusion to this series.
Leila and Rigel are all loved up now. They discovered who was trying to kill her and I began to suspect it early on, but I liked how it all came about. I also like how the author managed to allow Leila to win over her court and the other Fae without making her too precious. Sure she was a teensy bit of a Mary Sue but she was so damned funny and charming you don't mind too much.
And the portrait reveal!! It was everything I hoped and more.
The audiobook narrators really captured both the humor and earnestness of Leila and the menace that was Rigel.
This is a new to me author with this series and I see she has other mini-series in this same magic town so I will definitely look them up....more
I liked the change in location with Bunny and Sidnee going off to the State Trooper Academy to formally learn professional policing techniques and getI liked the change in location with Bunny and Sidnee going off to the State Trooper Academy to formally learn professional policing techniques and get duly licensed.
While there they meet up with a Poltergeist (who honestly acts like Peeves from Harry Potter at first) who needs their help in uncovering a gruesome crime.
Again, this was light-ish and reads very quickly.
I didn't rate this one higher because as much as I like the continuity as the series goes on, the many dangling issues without any real resolution is starting to become a bit much. There are a lot of balls in the air still left over from previous cases.
We have the drugs that are being used to experiment on vamps (the mystery from the 3rd book), Altho they kinda sorta stopped it from coming in, the perpetrators all got away, we have the cryptid monster beyond the magical barrier protecting the town that has been in jeopardy of falling and we all know it is a matter of time, we got introduced to the fact that Bunny is part of some prophecy (yeah I wasn't thrilled with that, I've come to hate prophecies in these sorts of book), and now this one which is also part of a larger conspiracy where the immediate perpetrators are caught but the main people are still out there.
Added to that one of the reasons the crime in this book was able to continue to happen was because of siloed communication. Now that everyone knows what is happening, it would have been nice to have gotten an epilogue or a scene or something that indicates there was some big meeting where the Supernaturals from different towns all agreed to share important information going forward.
As much as I like Bunny as a primary narrator, the author does tend to narrow focus on the things that are important to Bunny in the moment. But given what the series is trying to set up, there needs to be some attention on a wider focus and more strategic planning. I kinda feel like when something finally gets moving toward closure on one or two things, it'll only be because Bunny wants it to or it'll be time because it will because Bunny herself is in danger.
Anyway, I do still like the series but I hope it picks up and gives more answers and checks off some things on the list before things get too muddy....more
This is second book in this series and it is still a delight.
Our Queen of Fae Night Court, Leila, has won over her court. Who knew miniature golf woulThis is second book in this series and it is still a delight.
Our Queen of Fae Night Court, Leila, has won over her court. Who knew miniature golf would be so fun for the Fae?
But now she has to meet the Kings and Queens of the other Fae courts and they are awful to her. Just like her court was originally, mean and snotty. But Leila now has friends and allies in her court and inner circle and she still believes in just being herself. And because they are so awful she loves to simply troll them.
The scenes of Leila absolutely horrifying the Fae Monarchs by calling her enigmatic and scary assasin husban, Rigel, her 'Fae Bae' or choosing the homeliest 'Trash Griffins' as her court seal (the Fae use glamor to make things beautiful so they wince upon seeing them) or my absolute favorite -- when Leila learns that she has to have an official portrait, her description of how she wants her and Rigel to pose is hysterical. I hope they follow through on that because, yeah, hysterical.
But beside all the humor and Leila poking holes in the Fae self importance, there is still a good story underneath. Leila is still working to rebuild her court, trying desperately to reverse years of decay and neglect. She is trying to change the culture of the Fae so they can unite against the bigger threat against them than just the internal fighting. And she is just a compassionate and kind person.
And oh yeah, they need to figure out who keeps trying to kill her and why?
This series is hitting just right for me. The audiobook is well narrated....more
Lelia is a young half human-half fae woman who lives with her parents on their farm and has an affinity for t4.5 "THIS IS FOR THE CHICKENS!!!!" stars.
Lelia is a young half human-half fae woman who lives with her parents on their farm and has an affinity for the farm animals, especially her donkey, Bagel. So imagine her horror when one day she sees a herd of black, skeletal scary looking horses appear in her pasture along with a bunch of plate sized spiders intent on attacking her chickens? Armed with nothing but a can of Raid and a battle cry, Leila wades in to save her livestock.
Turns out that while the spiders were malevolent and sent to kill her, the horses, known as Night Mares, were there to anoint her the new Queen of the Fae Night Court. They are like the Night Court's version of the Vatican's White Smoke. They pick and confirm the new King or Queen. They are also her official steeds.
In this world, Fae, Vampires, Humans, Werewolves and other supernatural creatures all live side by side. Except the Fae are pretty stand-offish. They tend to live in their own courts, not intermingling with humans very much.
Turns out not intermingling with humans gives them a lot of time to be nasty, cliquish little mean girls with each other. To their detriment. Because they are secretive and suspicious and all the Royalty and Nobility in the other courts constantly scheming against each other, it is causing disruption of the Fae realm which, if they don't get their shit together, might cause the fall of magic altogether.
With all that, one would think this book would be a tense, fraught story full of fights and drama. Not at all. It is 100% the opposite of that. It is light and really quite laugh out loud. And a lot of that had to do with Leila. She is a riot, so irreverent.
I liked this because it employs one of my favorite tropes: the outsider who shakes things up. When Leila goes take her seat as the new Queen, she meets nothing but complete hostility. She is an outsider and half human at that. She is also ignorant of all the undercurrents. Because people hate her and because she doesn't know any better Leila just shrugs and basically says 'You do you, Imma do me.' and proceeds to be the kind of queen she wants to be.
She is unpredictable and flummoxes everyone around her. But I liked how she began to build her team. And begins to slowly win people over to her way of thinking.
Like I said this book has a fair amount of humor, but there are a lot of other really good themes bubbling underneath that we see working out in real life. A big one being people working against their own best interests because of ignorance and fear.
There is also the start of a romance. One of the requirements is that before the Queen can be crowned she must choose a consort. In a bold stroke, Leila chooses Rigel, the Wraith, a deadly assassin Noble. Oh yeah, he once tried to kill her but ... bygones! And since she still has regular assassination attempts, maybe her new Consort can help out with that.
This book was super fun and the audiobook was very well narrated.
Bunny's mom comes to town and with her a LOT of Tea is spilled and it is piping hot.
So yeah I loved this oneThis was my favorite of the series so far!
Bunny's mom comes to town and with her a LOT of Tea is spilled and it is piping hot.
So yeah I loved this one because we get a lot of information about Bunny, her family, and about Fluffy!! The romance between Bunny and Connor, her hot Vampire Lumberjack is crack-a-lacking. I like that we got some definitive answers and learned a lot of new things we never knew we needed to know.
This may be a bit of an unpopular opinion but I hope Bunny comes to sort of peace with with her mother. (view spoiler)[ I didn't like her mother at first but as the book moved on and we got more revelations of her family and what her parents did, I liked the complexity of what the author did with her mother. One could argue that she was a bad mother but I think in the parameters set down for this world it isn't so black and white. At one point her mom says "that is what we were told to do" in order to get Bunny to manifest and their hard and fast rules were that she could not be told. I get why Bunny feels betrayed and hurt but I also can give her mother a tiny bit of grace. And the story is being told from Bunny's first person POV, we get all her feelings but I think there are context clues that her mother wasn't as unfeeling about what she did. Her father, though. No. (hide spoiler)]
On top of that, the mystery of week, the curses, was probably one of the more interesting with a surprise twist in the end.
I am ok with how everything ended up. One of the strengths of the series is how well the author continues to use the prior characters from the earlier cases and build on all the previous foundations. The person responsible for the curses makes a lot of sense in hindsight. Interested to see how things shake out going forward.
The humor and the town remain strong attractions for this series....more
Another quick and fun read in this series. I predicted these would be like eating popcorn or chips -- and it so.
Bunny is learning more about police wAnother quick and fun read in this series. I predicted these would be like eating popcorn or chips -- and it so.
Bunny is learning more about police work. And through Bunny (who is a tried and true literary staple as the character who is the stand in for the audience in some ways) we are learning more about the supernatural world. We learn more about the different characters in town. They are still pretty cool and awesome and the town is still quirky.
A character I rather liked turned out to be a bit of a bastard.
The writer gets teenagers right.
The humor is still in fine form. Bunny sets up a hot line for tips through the newspaper and the nickname the newspaper gives her (and the town runs with it) is pretty funny.
Our heroine, Bunny, is a former British upper class party girl who was turned into aUnexpected delight.
A nice urban fantasy/mystery/police procedural.
Our heroine, Bunny, is a former British upper class party girl who was turned into a Vampire against her will. She would have had to spend 1o0 years in servitude to the Master Vamp in England. But she managed to escape to a primarily supernatural town in Alaska that offers her sanctuary.
The town is run by a council composed of the leaders of the various supernatural groups: Vampires, Shifters, Witches, Merfolk etc. There are even a few very bad ass humans.
Bunny works in what is essentially the Sheriff's office. First as clerk but she has a knack for quick thinking in the field and in instrumental in solving the murder that is the main plot of this book.
I liked the town with it's easy small town feel that is also a little quirky. I think it is a law that any mystery set in Alaska must be quirky. I also like the characters. They are mostly decent and Bunny is developing a found family and getting a bit of romance.
And it isn't all murder and mayhem. There is a fair bit of humor especially since Bunny is a bit of a fish out of water and her culture shock -- both being new to America and being new to being a Vampire -- are used to good effect. It is first person POV and Bunny has a fun voice. I also like the running gag of people asking her about her name and she has a different, outrageous story each time.
Listened to the audio book it is nicely narrated and it goes fast. I have a feeling I am going to be consuming these like potato chips....more
I've seen this cover a ton of times over the last year and never was tempted to read this book. I've also seen this author's name pop up a bu2.5 stars
I've seen this cover a ton of times over the last year and never was tempted to read this book. I've also seen this author's name pop up a bunch and likewise was never tempted to try her stuff.
But it came up as a rec on my library app and as these things work -- timing and nothing else keeping my attention, I decided to try it.
The start was slow for me. Mainly because everything felt very telegraphed.
We have the main character who was basically hated and rejected by everyone. Her BFF goes missing, she is a Vamp(y)re (sigh...) amidst humans. Despised, name called. etc. etc. So very damselled. And her name is Misery. I thought, ok, maybe every Vampire's name is some sort of descriptive noun like maybe we'll meet a Fury or Memory or Sorrow etc. but nope, just Misery.
And then we have an arranged marriage between Misery and Lowe, the alpha of the local powerful werewolf clan. There is some world building where the three species --- yes, species, not races -- of humans, werewolves and vampires have a very delicate political balance built on hostage exchange. Apparently the last time a marriage like this was attempted it ended in brutal murder. So everyone is pretty tense. But Misery and Lowe meet and marry. This is where I first put the book down, with a sigh. Here is where I get the first whiff of ... yeah I already know what is going to happen. The book is told from Misery's first person POV and some of her assumptions are so transparently wrong, there is a glaring road map of how things are going to play out. I was immediately bored.
But about a week later I picked the book up again just to finish it out.
I did manage to finish -- and yeah I was not wrong about the glaring roadmap. While there was nothing about the writing that moved me and the book was rather predictable, Misery herself was pretty entertaining as was her relationship with Lowe's sister. And of course I knew she'd find acceptance amongst the weres, where she had been rejected elsewhere all her life, because of course.
There was a lot of plot going on here: Misery's search for her missing friend, what is happening with the factions within the pack, who is targeting Lowe's sister etc. These are also pretty interesting. And the different plot lines act as a diffuse for the romance a bit. I actually like Lowe and Misery, but not as a couple. There wasn't a lot of on page romance/couple chemistry for me. I think part of it was because of the first person POV, Lowe just feels kinda there sometimes who will bust out something really sweet or nice. We learn bits and pieces of Lowe but he isn't a great communicator at all (from Misery's POV we are in). He is a sweetheart and I liked him and her, but ... I dunno... I just wasn't feeling them.
It doesn't help that little things kept pulling me out. First is the fact that he and Misery are different species. I think the author only did that because she liked the idea of them having different blood and to keep the delicate political balance predicated on them keeping separate and (view spoiler)[ to make the reveal of interbreeding a shock. But it isn't very shocking because different species can breed and these people aren't that bright if they acknowledge the weres/vamps/humans are having sex then there are probably many half breeds among them (hide spoiler)]. The vampires have purple blood and the weres have green. When the weres 'blushed' their skin would go green. Which.. ew. I kept picturing them kinda like hulk-green. Second, we got very little physical descriptions. My only impression of Lowe is a some big guy. And Misery is what some pale person with pointy ears. Third, the sub groups in a were clan are called a 'Huddle' and I just... I pictured a bunch of hulking men huddling around each other. LOL. The world building just felt rather unpolished, imo.
There is a third act black moment -- that is truly JUST a moment -- and it is another reason why the book felt predictable, I know it was gonna happen. And I knew the result of it would lead to the final act.
The all is revealed part was a bit too much of 'I know you are wondering why I have gathered you all here today' complete with copious villain monologuing.
So yeah, I mean... I finished the book. Misery was a good character with entertaining inner thoughts and some of the plots kept me interested. But overall I found the storytelling and setting lacked depth and polish....more
"Dyana Vance is a headstrong professional archer—not the type to trust blindly when a stranger shows uSo there is this line in the blurb of this book:
"Dyana Vance is a headstrong professional archer—not the type to trust blindly when a stranger shows up claiming to be her husband."
Made me crack up because, dude, that is just what she did. Casimir (the hero) shows up and tells her they are married and must travel across country to get a divorce. Does she ask him to prove it? Nope. He shows ups, people start shooting at her, people start dying around her, and while she makes the connection, she still hops into a car with him and to travels to got get a divorce for a marriage she never sought proof that actually existed.
If you're gonna be a snarky bad-ass at least commit 100% and be smart about it. Demand the license or do a public records search -- something.
Beyond that, the book didn't work for me because it was completely plot driven. I don't mind lots of plot and decisive action, but it also needs to be tempered by characters acting in a way that seems logical (or even illogical if their character to development makes that seem the right course for them). But like Dyana hopping into a car to go get a divorce, everything seems to hang on people doing stuff just to get from point A to point B in order to service plot. There are some other head-scratchy stuff that happens, which I won't get into because spoilers, but I kept getting yanked out of the story by questioning "why would she...?" or "why didn't she just ....?"
The character development was thin. Both Dyana and especially Casimir seem to be a checklist of PNR tropes. There is no exploration of them because it is clear you are expected to be already familiar with them.
There were some elements I thought were good but fell under the weight of a story that in the end didn't really sing.
Merged review:
So there is this line in the blurb of this book:
"Dyana Vance is a headstrong professional archer—not the type to trust blindly when a stranger shows up claiming to be her husband."
Made me crack up because, dude, that is just what she did. Casimir (the hero) shows up and tells her they are married and must travel across country to get a divorce. Does she ask him to prove it? Nope. He shows ups, people start shooting at her, people start dying around her, and while she makes the connection, she still hops into a car with him and to travels to got get a divorce for a marriage she never sought proof that actually existed.
If you're gonna be a snarky bad-ass at least commit 100% and be smart about it. Demand the license or do a public records search -- something.
Beyond that, the book didn't work for me because it was completely plot driven. I don't mind lots of plot and decisive action, but it also needs to be tempered by characters acting in a way that seems logical (or even illogical if their character to development makes that seem the right course for them). But like Dyana hopping into a car to go get a divorce, everything seems to hang on people doing stuff just to get from point A to point B in order to service plot. There are some other head-scratchy stuff that happens, which I won't get into because spoilers, but I kept getting yanked out of the story by questioning "why would she...?" or "why didn't she just ....?"
The character development was thin. Both Dyana and especially Casimir seem to be a checklist of PNR tropes. There is no exploration of them because it is clear you are expected to be already familiar with them.
There were some elements I thought were good but fell under the weight of a story that in the end didn't really sing....more
This was an early Lauren Dane book. it is a testament to how much her plotting, pacing, and character work has grown because I've read a fai1.5 stars.
This was an early Lauren Dane book. it is a testament to how much her plotting, pacing, and character work has grown because I've read a fair amount of her stuff and really like the more recent stuff. But this one and some of her other early work is pretty rough!
There is a kernel of an interesting plot in this book. The heroine Renee is a witch with very little training who has been in a long-term (4ish years) committed relationship with a jaguar shifter, Galen. Since she is human she has faced some hurdles with being accepted by his pack, but over the years she has won most of them over. But there are still pockets of people who dislike her and try to bully her or get her to dump Galen.
Added to that she has a very contentious relationship with her stepmother and her father. It is clear the stepmother has been terrible to her all her life (since she was 7) and has done a number on her self-esteem.
Added to that there is someone out there trying to mess with her head and possibly kill her. There is a broad hint that she is being prevented from learning more about her powers and there is a mystery behind her mother's death.
Into all of this comes Jack who is a wolf shifter and in the grand tradition of many a wolf shifter plot, we get the immediate recognition of a mate, mine, must have...blah, blah, blah.
So right away we have a heroine who has some major damsel signifiers. But there are a few pilot hooks there to hang an interesting story on. The mystery, why is she being prevented from using her magic? What is going on with her father and step-mother and then you have the complication with a mate coming in to blow up a long-standing relationship.
But none of these are explored or developed in any depth at all.
The romantic conflict is over in a flash as the three hash it out over dinner and voila a throuple is formed. Cuz luckily the guys are both bi.
We get a few scenes of someone trying to mess with her mind and her magic and one murder attempt. But we never find out why she in particular is a target. And the person who does it is dispatched in a sentence off screen. We go from bad guy escaping after attacking her, to "let's have some breakfast" to literally the next sentence is something like "Galen had to go on a run to shake off the kill." What Kill? What happened? How did we go from wheaties to murder in one sentence? I was listening on audio and thought something was corrupted with the audio file. But nope, that is exactly how it reads in text.
And then we learn that Renee has been lied to all her life and some rather major family revelations. Renee confronts her father and stepmother about it and they are all "Not gonna talk about it." and she is all' Derp.' and leaves.
Which brings me to the most frustrating element of the story, the writing for the heroine Renee. She is all over the place. The writing for her is illogical and she is really rather stupid. The book tells us how strong and kick ass she is only to show her being the biggest of noodle spines and not kickass at all. Or in one scene 'I don't need you to fight my battles!!" and the next scene she gets into a major argument with a member of Jack's pack where later she complains to him "You didn't stand up for me." Girl, make it make sense!
And it was so repetitive, so many of the same talking points said over and over. And the prolific sex scenes were also repetitive.
More of the mayhem we've gotten used to with the McKilligan sisters and their close connections of Honey badger friends. Yeah Tock, oneFunny. Crazy.
More of the mayhem we've gotten used to with the McKilligan sisters and their close connections of Honey badger friends. Yeah Tock, one of Max's friends and teammates, is nominally the main character but really this is 100% plot driven hijinks with the shadowy shifter groups and feuds and power plays and "Hey it's that guy" and shooting and "Okay, y'all have made Charlie mad!"
Added bonus, several of the characters from both the Magnus Pack series and the Pride series not only make an appearance but help propel the plot.
Listened on audio and Charlotte Kane(aka Johanna Parker) is as usual wonderful narrating them....more
As we pick up the second installment of this series we've met Lola and all the members of the pack.
There is: Leo - the TW/CW: Rape, Torture, Kidnapping
As we pick up the second installment of this series we've met Lola and all the members of the pack.
There is: Leo - the beta who is sexy and playful Rakim - the the Omega who is also sex but has a major puppy energy Matthieu - the head Alpha who is urbane and romantic and sweet
These are the three that Lola developed the closest relationships with in the first book. Leo and Rake are bi and will have threesomes with Lola, Matthieu is hetero and only sleeps with Lola.
This book has her slowly creating stronger relationships with the rest of the pack: Caleb - an Alpha, interior designer, lover of the arts and the most calming influence - he has bonded Leo and Rake and is bi Wes - almost a loner in the pack, he is their security specialist often acts as Rake's bodyguard - he is hetero and has not bonded anyone Cyrus - an Alpha - Lola's direct boss at the magazine and probably the one that she has the least social interaction with. He is bonded to Leo and Rake and is bi.
This book ups the ante on the crazy evil Alpha who is stalking her. And as she grows more comfortable with the pack as a whole, we see them kinda pushing her to become a full pack member but Lola's head is still entirely fucked up and she can't let go her fears about being bonded.
There is a black moment where Lola loses it completely and cuts off the pack even after having gotten closer with the rest.
But I liked the progression of the way the storyline unfolded. I am glad that 6 magial penii didn't automatically make Lola ok. She goes into therapy and she actually gets to see a good functioning pack in practice.
And I liked the little menace of Indy in the background... although it is 100% romance novel villain plot armor that allows him to do half of what he does.
Anyway the story ends on a great note, a HEA and we know that Lola has gone a great distance toward being completely healed.
Also, still lot of sex. God bless these women in these man harem books and their bionic vaginas because I could never......more
I never really paid attention to the subgenre of 'Omegaverse' in erotica romance. What littlTW/CW: Rape, kidnapping, torture
Well that was interesting.
I never really paid attention to the subgenre of 'Omegaverse' in erotica romance. What little I ever read about it just didn't feel like my cuppa. But I've liked Kathryn Moon's stuff. She is quite frankly the only author who has worked for me in the area of polyamory romance. She does the man harem thing really well.
And it isn't just all multiple sex all the time. She writes a good sex scene, but more importantly, she tells a good story. The plots are great and even more importantly, she takes the time to really create distinct characteristics among the man harem and she takes the time to create individual connections between the FMC and the each of the men. Probably why so many of her books are multivolume.
My only real complaint is that there is the tendency to make the FMC very much a 'not like other girls' character. A Mary Sue with a bit extra.
In this series we are in an AU where there are three kinds of people: Alphas, Omegas and Betas. These are not shapeshifters but people who have biological differences mainly centering around pheromones and an intricate role based social hierarchy. Packs are a found family group where you create a bond and the bond can be sexual or simply familial.
Alphas are the top of the food chain, they are the ones who create the bonds to form a pack and have a strong pheromone/scent that attracts people who want to be around them and bonded to them. Omegas are the sexual glue that hold the pack together. They tend to be very attractive and also have an irresistible pheromone/scent that attracts Alphas. Alphas strongly desire to bond Omegas.
And then there are Betas. They are the normies. Regular old humans, no pheromone/scent. They have no biological imperative to bond or be part of a pack like Alphas and Omegas, but it is a bit of a prestige/clout thing to be part of pack.
As this book begins we meet Lola who has quite a bit of damage. She acknowledges that all she wanted to do was to learn she was an Omega (apparently the onset happens sometime in puberty but can also happen later) and be bonded to an Alpha pack. Her BFF blossomed into an Omega and happily was accepted into a great pack and has everything Lola ever wanted. Lola was a bit jealous and in her desperation to find the same thing she let herself be manipulated by a criminal pack of Alphas who were also human traffickers.
That all ended on a night of extreme violence that ended in a shootout and a that evil pack decimated and most of the Alphas killed but Lola can only remember in flashes where she knows she was terrified tortured and raped. We get a fair amount of these flashes of Lola remembering that night and it is a seminal point in where she is when we first meet her.
She has been depressed and traumatized and staying with her cousin for an entire year until finally she is ready to join the world again. Now she avoids Alphas like the plague. Even being in proximity to one plummets her into an extreme panic attack. She will only ever have one night hook ups with Betas only and she even has a strained relationship with her Omega BFF whom she has kept at arms length for the past year.
The thrust of the book is of course, Lola's perception of Alphas and packs are skewed by her horrific experience. Also they fucked with her head so much she cant even trust her own instincts when she comes into proximity with a decent pack who evinces interest in her.
This first book has her slowly building a relationship with a Beta named Leo who is bonded to a powerful pack, one of the Alphas owns the media company of the fashion magazine she works for, and another is her direct boss. And then later she builds a second relationship with another member of the pack, Rakim, an Omega who is a model that she works with during fashion week.
I liked the slow progression of the relationships, how she met each member of the pack under different circumstances and built different relationships with each of them -- some more cordial and distant than others -- how they were very perceptive about her issues and tried to be respectful of her boundaries.
Beyond the relationship stuff we get a good amount of workplace drama and of course, the lone surviving evil Alpha who traumatized her rears his ugly head.
This was a great first book in the story. It laid the groundwork, created the background, introduced all the major players, put the major plot into motion and left enough story to tell in the final installment.
Oh yeah, there is a lot of smoking sex, mostly just between Lola and Leo and/or Rakim. But Matthieu -- the main Alpha of the pack-- the rich, urbane Frenchman -- comes in as a dark horse and wins her over a bit in the end. Matthieu was my favorite....more
Still as fun as the first one. A very quick listen as this is a novella.
This one features Annie, the organic farmer, doomsday prepper and bff of MindyStill as fun as the first one. A very quick listen as this is a novella.
This one features Annie, the organic farmer, doomsday prepper and bff of Mindy from the first book.
Annie just bought the the adjoining farm next to hers because she wants to expand her farm. The neighbor was eaten by zombies in the last book as were much of her stock. It was a hoot hearing about her getting her insurance payout on the grounds of 'live stock zombiefication.'
But not so fast, as Annie is preparing her new land for cultivation she comes upon a secret underground lair.
This request the help of the supernatural authorities and two agencies send out members. One is a handsome wizard and the other is Annie's jerk ex, Axel, who left her years ago and whose actions resulted with Annie being almost killed.
But Axel is the least of Annie's problems. Here Be Dragons!
Yeah so instead of zombies we get shady wizards, prophetic dreams, dragons and a mysterious goat and 'Mother of Dragons' gets whole new meaning.
Annie was funny and the storyline was pretty straight forward. This one had a few more serious moments though than in the last one especially as Annie survives an brutal assault (pre-start of book) and just barely avoids sexual assault. But still it was lighthearted. And again Tanya Eby was a great fit as narrator for the story....more