Something wicked is coming to South Toms River, New Jersey. Selling haunted trinkets and witches’ wands is just another normal day for the delightfully neurotic werewolf Natalya Stravinsky. From one day to another, as the new South Toms River Pack alpha female, she tries to keep finicky supernatural customers placated while managing her underhanded goblin boss and eccentric supernatural … co-workers. Her life is complicated further when competition rolls in: a peculiar troll-owned mart with subpar haunted knick-knacks and deadly antiques appears.A powerful fairy path veers off course, heading towards South Toms River, attracting the attention of a deadly, shadowed force. Mysterious steamer trunks from the 1920s pop up all over town, unleashing horrific beasts. Natalya must find the inner strength to bring her pack together to uncover the culprit before her enemies threaten everyone she holds dear.
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I love Shawntelle’s work–no matter what book, I know I’m going to enjoy it if she wrote it.
I really struggled to get into this book. I did not know it was a spin off of another series. There are many references to past relationships, conflicts and events that affect things here that are talked about but never reviewed. I felt lost, didn’t understand why these characters had issues with others, and there was a lot of history spoken of. Forbidden things, they knew about but I had no memory of where mentioned. I really struggled, I wanted to enjoy this.
The writing style had too many similes. Weird ones, that just made me stop and say, what ? There was a lot of jumping around in the story. Told in first person with the MC’s thoughts everywhere at once. From this one book I will not be continuing on with this series. Perhaps my experience would have been better if I’d read the previous books,
I can not recommend this book unless you’ve read the previous series.
I received this book from the publisher for an honest review
I have read this author before, but it has been a few years. I saw this new series starter by her and had to check it out. This book contains characters from her other series, but you don’t need to have read those others to enjoy this one. I dived in, and I kept remembering characters from her other books which was fun. I loved seeing them again. This was an interesting book with an interesting plot, and I think I’ll even eventually like Erica in time. The reveal of the wolf helping the Basilisk King was a little bit of a letdown, but other than that, I enjoyed this book from start to finish. I can’t wait to read the next book in the series. Recommend! I was provided a compliment copy which I voluntarily reviewed.
Imagine a Werewolf with OCD and you begin to understand that’s really quite a big deal. Slobbering, shedding not to mention the desire to keep everything straight and tidy ! So yes Nat definitely has issues but as Alpha female of her Pack she knows she has to deal and frankly I do think she’s come a long way in her journey. Now she’s working at what I can only describe as a store that sells magical antiques but when a mysterious trunk shows up pretty soon the monsters follow !
I’ve previously enjoyed this authors work but this time it just didn’t quite click for me. An interesting plot with numerous supporting characters and yet for me something was missing. I liked the idea that changes were coming ( sorry cannot say exactly what or who ) but I think I really wanted more of a feeling of love and romance between Nat and her partner Thorn. So sadly not my favourite book by this author.
This voluntary take is of a copy I requested from Netgalley and my thoughts and comments are honest and I believe fair