Ivy Granger takes on a simple grave robbing case, but in Harborsmouth nothing is ever simple when dealing with the dead.Grave robbing is Harborsmouth’s second best-kept secret. The first is the existence of supernatural creatures that live alongside the city’s humans. In fact, the dirtiest little secret of all might be the truth behind most of those empty graves.Most supernaturals eke out a … supernaturals eke out a pretty mundane existence. Nobody wants a return to the Burning Times. Well, nobody sane.
The creature that was stealing the more odoriferous of Harborsmouth’s citizens from their graves had to be crazy. Sir Gaius, ruler of the local vamps, owned the harvesting rights to every corpse buried within the city limits. No one touched the vampire master of the city’s property without permission and lived to scream about it–until now.
Warning: This book features necromancy, grave robbing, an abandoned amusement park, and zombie clowns.
Blood Rite is the sixth novel in the award-winning Ivy Granger urban fantasy series by E.J. Stevens. The world of Ivy Granger, including the Ivy Granger, Psychic Detective series and the Hunters’ Guild series, is filled with bloodsucking vampires, psychotic faeries, and snarky, kick-butt heroines.
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This was a great story. Action packed with twists and intrigue. Definitely one you do not want to miss out on. Love the characters .
I would recommend this whole series.
Zombie gerbils…
How do you not become utterly intrigued with a story that starts off with the main character being tasked with tracking the graverobber responsible for zombie gerbils running loose? This whacky and wonderful series incorporates supernatural folklore with a myriad of various mythologies and never fails to offer the reader a fun and fantastic adventure with not a single dull moment. I have thoroughly enjoyed all the whimsical fantasy and have become very attached to the characters in these books. They have all grown and evolved, their relationships have changed, bonds have been forged, love and loss have been experienced. Throughout the series, to the delight of her readers, Ms. Stevens continues to challenge these tireless crusaders with highly imaginative, sometimes hilarious, and always compelling escapades. Ivy, now a much more prominent and, I would assume, influential figure in the fae hierarchy, is still completely committed to protecting Harborsmouth and its inhabitants from all supernatural threats so the stage is set, and I shall eagerly await the next adventure for her and her friends.
While I did receive a free advance copy of this book, I chose to purchase a copy as well and I am voluntarily offering this honest and unbiased review.
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Things are changing. Can Ivy embrace her heritage and her powers to help the humans and faerie. Ivy is hired by a powerful vampire to stop whatever creature is stealing his corpses. But as Ivy and her friend investigate, they are drawn into more and more danger. The necromancer turning corpses into zombies has targeted only faerie corpses. Why? And he is very powerful. Can they take him down before humans are hurt? And what of Ivy’s powers? She seems to be getting more powerful. Will her powers help the humans, the faerie, or both? Only time will tell.
First let me state that I received an Advance Reader Copy, (ARC), but this in no way influences my review. I always leave an honest review. Also this author is new to me, but it won’t be for long.
Holy shiznet!!! This story was gr8. I have never read an Ivy Granger story before, but now that I’ve read this one, I will be reading them all. It’s gr8 that I didn’t have to read the beginning books, just that I want to. Ms. Stevens has a great writing ability that totally draws the reader in. I recommend this read. 5 Thumbs up
This is a fast paced read that is action packed. Especially if you love a Supernatural mystery. This read kept me on the edge of my seat. The Author did a fantastic job at the eorld building and bringing out the Characters. I definitely recommend.
Shauna Joesten
Overall rating: 4.5
A first for me by this author, this is book 6 in a series and even though I haven’t been reading this series, it was easy to pick up the spirit of these characters. Love the mix of paranormal and humor. The gerbils had me mentally trying to picture them. Brought back flashbacks of the movie “Ben”. Sort of anyways l I found this authors prose easy to read which made the pages fly by quickly. The storyline truly did keep me immersed. Will need to read more books about this quirky detective. All my reviews are always voluntarily written
Ivy granger is a psychic detective, fairy princess, demon mother, and a shining, glowing wisp in this latest case. What appears as a simple grave robbing leads to a battle with zombie gerbils, a zombie army, a zombie dragon and even ice and shadows. Can she save Harborsmouth from the latest death and destruction coming her way? Ivy is coming into more magical power, and she needs to learn how to use it fast! She has weddings to plan!
I love this series. It is clever, original, with unexpected twists and an unbelievably magical story. Only Ivy could adopt a demon child with puppy dog ears, get him to sleep soundly in a dog bed and teach him to love. Only Ivy would rather face zombies and demons than circus clowns and spiders
I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.
This is the first book that I have read by this author and I’m completely blown away by this book.
This book is really well written and the characters are well written and you are definitely invested in what happens to them.
This book is dark with grave robbing, zombies and flesh eating marsh monsters
I’d definitely recommend this book as it has a bit of everything, romance, fighting, gore and more.
You won’t be disappointed if you enjoy reading PNR book’s
Unfortunate Cases can be quite creepy, smelling,small rodents,critters, What a generous woman and her team try to help and try to solve cases. Feel like a part of the detective team. Never know what’s waiting on the other side of the door.
I received a free copy and I’m giving an honest review
Really good but very dark. This series is becoming darker and darker without loosing its little touches of humour or romance which is a very good point. That being said i sure didn’t expect it to be so dark either yes it include grave robbing and zombies but it’s deeper than that. The ambiance , what we fear to expect it’s really creepy.
As always Ivy does lead the investigation but even herself feels that there is a lot more to this case , she can pinpoint it but she knows and it leave us with an feeling of business unfinished and worse to come. Villain is taken care of but is it the real bad one?
It’s hard to explain i really liked this story as we get to see how each character improves (for example Forneus and Ivy) the rhythm is fast but not too fast so we are not lost, even if i missed book 5 i had enough info to understand what was happening but while it’s not really a cliffhanger i didn’t get a feeling of closure at the last page more a foreboding one which kind of frustrated me. I do want the next book soon!!
I do recommend this book if you love zombies and dark ambience but i can’t recommend you enough to read this book in the series order to get a better understanding and it’s so worth it too.
Get ready for exciting storytelling! All kinds of paranormal for your pleasure. Lots of monsters run the streets that people are unaware of but Ivy Grange, the Psychic detective hopes to keep it that way. She investigates paranormal activity no one else will and fixes the problem, most of the time. Very good writing! Good book. Loved the characters.