There’s a dangerous monster loose on the streets of Aurora, Michigan, and Detective Cal Kinsey is determined to stop it…or die trying.Two years ago, Cal Kinsey was an up-and-coming cop in the Aurora Police Department. But during a fateful nighttime stakeout in search of a prolific killer, Cal witnessed the darkest corner of his dreams come to life: a rogue vampire slaughtered his partner and … slaughtered his partner and introduced Cal to the supernatural world he never knew existed in the shadows.
Now, Cal is a newly minted detective at the often mocked Department of Supernatural Investigations. By day, the agents of DSI are called “Kooks” by local law enforcement. By night, they’re known as “Crows,” reviled by the supernatural underworld.
Mere weeks out of the academy, Cal catches his first real case, a vicious murder at a local college. An unknown sorcerer has summoned a powerful creature from the Eververse, a realm of magic and mayhem that borders Earth, and set it on a warpath through the city.
With the bodies piling up and the danger of public exposure growing critical, Cal must find a way to stop the Eververse monster and send it back to the hell it came from…preferably before Aurora, Michigan runs out of coffins for the dead.
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Good characters and steady development as you learn more in each book. Good plot lines. Got first book on Kindle Unlimited, gladly paying for the next two I’ve bought. Love the try-before-you-continue-to-buy.
If you like Dresden files you’ll probably like these books.
When you write books about far fetched scenarios you can’t be timid, you have to go big and bold ,Clara does this here effortlesy. Brilliant read loved every page.
This book was urban fantasy at it’s finest—gruesome, bloody, snarky, hilarious, action-packed, and fun. My favorite thing, however, had to be Cal himself. Not only was he hilariously quippy, he was just so real. He was definitely badass, risking his life to save others, going head-to-head with death gods and whatnot, but he was also terrified out of his mind while he was being badass, and that made him so much more likeable and relatable to me. He also wasn’t invincible, another thing that made him seem realistic, as shown by the way he got his ass handed to him numerous times. And while I would never classify this as an emotional book, the author still wasn’t afraid to give Cal some emotion, and I’m pretty sure he was suffering from PTSD considering the flashbacks and panic attacks he sometimes had.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
This book has really good pacing, lots of drama and suspense with some humor (not ha-ha humor, but still had me chuckling). I love Cal, he’s the new guy on the team and he actually acknowledges it. I love the other DSI members: Riker and Ella are such great team mates (I can’t wait to see the rest of the team in upcoming books) and I loved seeing an analyst, Cooper, getting an important role.
This reminded me a little of the Dresden series by Jim Butcher, only if Dresden had been younger and a cop.