A small Dublin pub … done with the supernatural world, but it’s not quite done with her.
Her birth has triggered a prophecy, and now the clock is ticking. Humanity will be the first to suffer for her existence.
Everything, and everyone, she loves is in danger, and as the body count rises Phoenix must learn to embrace the darkest parts of herself.
Or lose it all.
If you like gripping urban fantasy with some serious attitude, you’ll love this debut novel from Irish author L.M. Hatchell.
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Awesome read and wonderful worldbuilding! I have gotten the pleasure of reading and hearing about this beauty from the beginning stages in the writing group we are in. It’s been a labor of love for the author and it shows. She did an amazing job with the characters and plot.
Grips you right from the start and doesn’t let go. I cannot wait for the next book!
I really enjoyed this book! For a change from many books in this genre, the ancient prophecy doesn’t foretell the birth of the savior of the world, but the one who will destroy it. Phoenix knows she’s considered an abomination in the supernatural world, and she doesn’t want any part of it anyway. She loves her simple life with humans, but the paranormals are not about to let her get away. This story had plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader guessing and surprises around every corner. I liked the characters and rooted for Phoenix throughout the book. Of course, I had to buy the second book in the series, and now I can’t wait for the third. The books do end on cliff-hangers. I would have preferred that each book complete a narrative arc, but I’ll definitely buy more from this author.
The story line was terrific, the character work was fantastic and the book had a good flow to it. This was a great way to start a series and I look forward to seeing what happens next.
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3 Minutes to Midnight is L.M. Hatchell debut novel set in Dublin, Ireland with vampires, shifters, witches, fae and one hybrid that can end the world. But will she be the one to end it or save it? A perfect setting for an UF read with a great worldbuilding, suspense, drama, heartbreaking moments and believable characters. I think that L.M. Hatchell nailed it with this one, i can hardly believe that this is her first book published to date
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“3 Minutes to Midnight” the first book of the Midnight Trilogy by L.M. Hatchell is welcome addiction to the genre. Hatchell has the extraordinary gift to intertwine fiction and reality into a full satisfactory tale, populated with multifaceted characters with very much real problems crafted into the tale through urban fantasy archetypes that works.
Phoenix is a Fae/Vampire hybrid, the first an only in the long history of the Lore. Her mere existence is a danger to the status-quo, not only consider an abomination but sanctioned by the Council as a crime punishable by death. Phoenix has been aware of this all her life, her own parents were attacked and disappeared year ago, letting her alone to fend by herself in the twilight world between humans and Supes. Fortunately for her, uncle Darius, a fellow vampire friend of her father, and the only ally they had, took her in into the Dublin coven, under the cover of secrecy, until she succeeded in carving a life of her own in the human world, now co-owning a pub with her best friend and living a seemingly normal life with only the occasional meeting with Darius as reminder of her “otherness”. If it were not for the fact that she is part Fae and as such reach immortality on her twenty-fifth birthday, which is… tonight.
As the same time Dublin is hit by an increased number in human attacks, that call Ethan, the somehow renegade son of Alpha of the Donegal Pack, who is in a hunt for the killer of his own brother. Ethan and Phoenix are brought together by the event and a fast-paced, action-packed plot takes it course to reach the most unexpected turning point in the action.
L.M. Hatchell has created a wonderful world, with wonderful characters, humans, supes and Dublin , then Dublin is a much part of the action as any of the multidimensional characters involved in the plot. A real Dublin, easy to recognize, true to nature, Dublin as you would experience it if the Supes came to “play”… or may I say “when” the Supes come to play
A wonderful story, a great first installment into a new series and a new verse, that will keep the reader entertaining and invested until the very last page, and… by the way… take care to read until the very end, your efforts will be highly rewarded.