Shade’s To Do List:- Investigate a haunting- Find undead crime lord’s stolen book of blackmail- SurviveAn FBI contact comes to Shade for help when a ghostly presence indicates a missing architect with ties to the mob might have been murdered. Even for a village witch recently turned private investigator, it should have been an easy assignment. Show up, look for the ghost, determine if it’s the … look for the ghost, determine if it’s the missing architect.
Easy peasy.
Then an unexpected twist brings a vampire to her doorstep.
A bold thief stole the “reputable businessman’s” little black book of secrets—and he’ll pay a lot more than an FBI consulting fee to get it back.
Powerful suspects make powerful enemies.
Soon the question isn’t whether or not Shade can solve the case—it’s whether or not she can survive it if she does.
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I stumbled across this new series by Ms Blackstream quite by accident.
I really like Shade, aka Mother Renard, as she is transitioning herself from being a former apprentice to Mother Hazel to her own career choice of private investigator. I find her refreshing and relatable, and enjoy her interactions with the other characters we meet in this book. I really like that Shade’s familiar is a pixie, and how they interact and support each other. I also like the fact that there are hidden depths to Shade – a past she doesn’t know, even the truth about her age.
I enjoyed it enough that I immediately grabbed book two, Monster, to continue to learn more about Shade and her life.
Deadline by Jennifer Blackstream is book 1 in the Blood Trials Series. I personally thought it was a great start for a series and cannot wait for book 2. This series has a lot of great potential to be one of my new favorite series. I really liked the main character Shade Renard. I love how she does not always have all the answers, and that all though she is a strong person she is not a strong witch. I love how she learns as she goes. All of the characters in the book were written very well, even the villains. This books was one of those I had a very hard time putting down.
In the book Shade is a village witch, kind of like a healer so to speak as well as taking care of problems in her village. Along with her Familiar a Pixie named Peasblossom they take on the village problems. But Shade also has a dream of being a PI.
An FBI Contact asks her to consult on a case of a possible haunting which includes a missing woman. Shade jumps at the chance. Then Crime Lord Anton Winters, AKA the Prince Kirill of Dacia, and also a Vampire shows up at Shades door to hire her to help find a his stolen black book, she gets her first real case, and can hopefully prove herself as a PI.
Dealing with stronger Otherworld creatures she will have to first survive the case, before she
can solve it.
I was given my copy of this book by the Author and Enchantress Design and Promo as part of a book tour. My thoughts on this book are my own.
I thought the story line was taken from a Hamilton book about a demon witch and her pixie sidekick. This book however, was written poorly and hard to follow.