Hello Kitty, hello sushi, hello… demons?When my parents told me I was the next in line as guardian to a powerful and ancient stone, I thought they’d been smoking the crack pipe. Then they told me they’d lost that stone and I needed to go to Tokyo to retrieve it.Sounded simple: pick up the stone, do some shopping then head home.Not so much.Their connection in Tokyo is a creepy mob boss dealing in … creepy mob boss dealing in paranormal objects who demands I complete a mission for him before he’ll help out.
He makes me team up with a snarky kitsune and a shady dream eater who both hate me on first sight. Our mission – babysitting a god until festival day.
Now I have a slew of enemies trying to attack and/or seduce me, a bunch of crows following me around and supposed paranormal abilities.
Then that cranky old god goes missing and I’m the only one who can find him.
Luckily, I have a few tricks of my own.
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Molly is the perfect millennial character. She is happy in her own world, believes everything is going to be exactly as she thinks it will, and now knows her parents are crazy. All millennial’s think their parents are crazy. She is about to find out just how closed off she was from her reality, and we get to tag along.
This series opener has cemented Kat Cotton’s place on my book shelf as one of my faves. Her Clem Starr series was fantastic and my expectations going into this one might not have been fair since the bar was set so high. I’m pleased to say that she not only met those expectations, she blew them out of the water. This is an incredible ride! Ms. Cotton has created a well written, fun-filled story that has a lot of action, the perfect blend of humor, and flows at the perfect pace. The characters are amazing (just like I expected) and have complex personalities that make them believable. It’s also a book that can be enjoyed by both adults and teens since the violence is minimal and there are no graphic sexy scenes.
With this new series we are introduced to a new cast of characters.. Molly is the lead character cast into a role she has not been prepared to do. Shin and Yuki have worked in for awhile. Everyone has special gifts.
This group is not for the faint of heart. Now Molly is under the contract to Yamuguchi and who knows what will happen now.
Looking forward to reading this new series.
Molly is going to college when all of a sudden her parents cancel her classes and makes her come home. They tell her they are not normal: they are guardians of a stone and it is missing. She believes they are loony, especially when they tell her they need her to go to Japan to find information from a Mr. Yamaguchi to get the stone back. Then they are attacked by some kind of mole creatures that are big! Now she believed! She goes to Japan and meets her “team” Shun and Yuki. Shun is a Baku and Yuki is a kitsune. She meets Mr. Yamaguchi and he has the three of them watching a box containing a kami that only Molly can see and talk with. Molly meets some others and decides to go partying. Come to find out they are the enemies and they steal the kami. They have to find it before Mr. Yamaguchi comes back for it! They find it but things have now changed! One of the enemies worked all along for Mr. Yamaguchi and ratted out her ability…she is a God! What kind of powers does she have? He offers her a bargain work for him for one year, he will help find the stone, get paid monthly, keep the apartment, Yuki lives and gets her star ball at the end of the year, and she will walk away free and she accepts. This is a new series that occurs in Japan and we will see what kind of powers Molly ends up with and what kind of situations she finds herself immersed with from the boss! This is a fast read with plenty of action and builds up to the finale! Our new heroine also has an affinity with crows! I received this book for free and am voluntarily leaving a review!
“I’m a millennial. My life isn’t meant to be this complicated.”
Oh Molly, you poor Aussie lass, so little fo you know – including who (what) you really are and, trust me, it’s much more than a uni student with “new age” hippie parents. Magic, adventure and thrills are in store for you, Molly, and we readers are in for a total treat.
Kat Cotton is one of my favorite authors. No surprise then that I was delighted that she’s started a new series, Harajuku Crows, the first book of which is Millennial Mischief. No surprise too that it’s well written, as this author seems incapable of anything less. Add in a great plot and superb cast of lead (hi Molly) and supporting characters and the result is a real winner. But for the fact that I’m literally dictating this review to my husband from my hospital bed I could go on and on with praises. The book definitely deserves it. Since I can’t do that I will simply note that the book is most definitely one to read, and it is easy to highly recommend. I’m definitely looking forward to the next book in this series.
Fascinating new world to explore with characters who are filled with imperfections and contradictions in the most interesting ways. The plot twists and the character interactions kept me reading just more page until I finished the whole delicious book in one go. Oh – speaking of delicious, did I mention the plot involves a god who loves chocolate….
It was my pleasure to receive this ARC and give my honest review.
This didn’t work for me, and I didn’t finish it. The female lead was too young and whiny.
Whiny “heroine”
I loved this book and once I finished laughing I was able to write a review for it. Molly’s internal voice was a riot. In theory she is off to Japan to get a lead on something stolen from her family but of course things do not go as planned. Molly tries her best but she is such a young adult that I just had to laugh as her character was well written and hit all the high points to a girl obsessed with followers on social media. I liked the actual story line and the paranormal elements written into a modern day story. All the characters were well written and easy to like and hate too. Just an entertaining story.