All Allegra Rossi needs is her beauty, expensive champagne, designer clothes, and enough souls to keep her succubus appetites satisfied.Everything seems to be in place until a photo shoot at New Haven’s prestigious — and supposedly haunted — Garden Hotel sets her dreams for a perfect life crumbling. Not only has her handsome, charismatic boss captured her interest, threatening the careful … careful restraints she’s placed around her succubus nature, but the hotel’s reputation turns out to be true. Worse: the specter has targeted Allegra as its next victim
If Allegra wants to stay alive and keep her heart intact, she will have to unleash her demonic instincts to shed light into the darkness before the shadows consume her.
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Ever since I read the first two books in this series I am hooked. This series has everything you could want from a supernatural mystery. I have to admit that I still have to read the prequel novella, which I think will only enhance the reading enjoyment even more, but I like meeting all these characters outside of the one case that brought them all together. I’m therefore quite happy that I grabbed all three available arcs from BookSirens when I got the chance.
I think this book was the most emotional out of the three I read so far. And that’s mostly because the main character might be the most interesting character out of the three mains I met so far. Our heroine is layered, complicated and most of all struggling with herself. This book is not about the case she’s solving, this book is about our heroine growing as a person and as a succubus. The case is nothing but a tool to help her find the person she truly wants to be.
That doesn’t mean the case isn’t interesting. On the contrary. I quite liked this case and I liked how different it was from the previous two cases. I have to admit that I saw some twists and turns coming, but that has never been a deal breaker for me. On the contrary. It usually means that an author created a solid foundation for the story and doesn’t let things come out of nowhere. Knowing what was going to happen also didn’t make the finale any less spectacular.
Walsh doesn’t just give us a great heroine and an interesting case though, she also crafts this amazing and beautiful location that really comes to life with every description. It’s a true talent to make a location be more than just a place where the characters meet. Walsh has that talent. Her writing is amazingly atmospheric and more than once I had chills rolling down my spine while reading. It almost feels like I’m pulled into the story and standing alongside these characters.
I will certainly check the rest of the series out too. I really wanna know what’s truly going on!
Shadows In The Garden Hotel by Krista Walsh is the third book in her Invisible Entente series. It is written in third-person and is from Succubus, Model Allegra Rossi’s point-of-view. This is an urban fantasy with a bit of romance and a lot of mystery.
Allegra has been in both previous volumes of the Invisible Entente and of course, was first seen along with the rest of the main characters in the prequel novella. This is the first book with her as the main character. Allegra is a hard character to like, she is arrogant, selfish, and quite cold; but the author doesn’t waste an opportunity for character growth and by the end of the book she is a much more ‘human’ character.