I’ve had this book quite a while and finally decided to give it a shot. This is about Alex (Alexis) Craft, a grave witch who is caught up in a sinister case where women are brutally killed and used for very black magic.

This world is an alternate timeline one where the Fae came out of hiding. Alex, as a grave witch, has the ability to call on dead peoples’ souls or essence? The book wasn’t 100% clear on what a shade actually represents. Anyway, she’s apparently really good at this but terrible at all other magic.

The characterization lacked some depth so I didn’t really feel like I knew any of the characters and thus didn’t root for or oppose in general. Hard to get me invested in the goings on of a character who lacked personality besides, yeah, she’s a grave witch with family issues and sees the world with grave sight.

So the romance part of this story suffers the same fate. Death is represented as some regular looking Joe but isn’t of course. Then you had Falin who was pulling the gruff cop, stay out it routine and suddenly they’re in the sack together. An entire chapter devoted to that. Ugh. Also Death is in love with her. Hmmm

Basically, it was an okay book. Not sure if I’ll continue the series or not. Three stars.
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More book in the series. Might try re-reading. Series with a really good story. ( )

I wasn't sure I would like this book. But the interesting approach to magic and the Fae was great. It was a great introduction into the world/series.
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It is good. I hope for more of the Death character in the next books. ( )

Just stumbled across this at work one night and started it on my break. Glad I picked it up. I read a review when I first picked it up saying it was nothing new, but I would disagree with that-while it has elements of other urban fantasy series I’ve read, the author has created an original world with characters I already love. As soon as I finished, I went online to see if there’s another installment yet. Not yet, it turns out, but I’ll be a happy reader in July! ( )