Monday, January 21, 2019

The Case of the Hidden Daemon

Title: The Case of the Hidden Daemon
Author: Lucy Banks
Published: October 23rd 2018 by Amberjack Publishing
Format: eBook, Paperback, 300 pages
Genre: Supernatural
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Dr Ribero's Agency of the Supernatural #3

Is there such a thing as a cozy supernatural ghost story? Considering that I am still confused as to which genre this series belongs – it seems too simple to be an adult book, but at times, too much for a young adult, so I continue to question where it belongs.

Dr. Ribero’s Agency of the Supernatural once again bumbles their way through a case that began in the last book, ‘The Deadly Doppelganger’, and jerkily moved the plot forward. This time with added intrigue of an odd cult that teams up with an old and formidable daemon that has inhabited more than one person and is on the lookout for the next.

Using anagrams, which I am not totally convinced were not used during the writing of other parts of this book, Lucy Banks reveals the secrets of who the daemon is and what his plans are. It takes the mind of the least likely band of characters of the Agency to figure out the code, but in doing so, realizes that he has been played and that once again, his heart has been broken.

Though I keep reading, I am not one-hundred-percent sold on this series. There seems to be something missing, that magical quotient that makes for the quintessential cannot put down series.

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