Author: Victoria Laurie
Published: May 16, 2024 by Laurie Press
Format: Kindle, 347 pages
Genre: Paranormal
Series: Ghost Hunter #11
First Sentence: I remember the moment before everything changed.
Blurb: M.J. Holliday, her husband Heath Whitefeather, and their visiting best friend Gilley Gillespie are attacked in the Whitefeather home by a pair of demons intent on robbing Heath of his very soul and killing anyone else who stands in the way.
The demons emerge from the portraits of Heath's Native American ancestors, and now the artist and driving force behind the demons' appearance--Will Morningstar--is on the run. Worse yet, a stream of subsequent attacks and murders among a few powerful members of the Santa Fe Pueblo Tribal Council tells the ghost hunters that there are more portraits, demons, and a nefarious mystery person's agenda to contend with.
As circumstances change and become even more deadly, the only thing the ghost-hunting crew can count on, besides each other, is that, where Will's portraits are hung, a demon and death quickly follow.
M.J., Heath, and Gilley must hunt Will down, get to the bottom of the mystery behind the targeted attacks, and lock the demons back in hell before the evil force behind their unleashing murders them all.
My Opinion: When you open the paperback, the reader is first confronted with quirky formatting. This is a self-published and possibly a published-on-demand paperback, so you must take that into consideration. The margins are wide, the paragraphs consist of one or two sentences, and there is just too much stark whiteness (if that makes sense). I wondered if everything was spread out to reach a page count. The editing is not atrocious, but there is room for improvement with wrong word order, incorrect words, and plot inconsistencies. Once again, self-published.
Now, on to the body. There are good bones here, but does the reader need five paragraphs on the magnetization of a hunk of metal? As for my favorite character in Victoria Laurie’s books, Gilly is front and center. In this book, he shows maturity, but there is still a squeaky side. There is a sentence or two regarding his life with Cat, but for the most part, that part of Gilly, or his relationships, is not mentioned, and considering MJ is his BFF, that seemed strange.
The book picks up in the final third, but it loses steam when the reasoning behind the haunting involves something out of left field. I wished that the author had done a little more research in this area since it does not ring true since they are on tribal land. Granted, this is a book of fiction, and people will possibly breeze over this, but it bothered me. That is saying a lot since there were multiple times when I would say out loud, “That doesn’t make sense.”
I am uncertain if this marks the conclusion of the series, but for me, this is where I jump off this train.
Blurb: M.J. Holliday, her husband Heath Whitefeather, and their visiting best friend Gilley Gillespie are attacked in the Whitefeather home by a pair of demons intent on robbing Heath of his very soul and killing anyone else who stands in the way.
The demons emerge from the portraits of Heath's Native American ancestors, and now the artist and driving force behind the demons' appearance--Will Morningstar--is on the run. Worse yet, a stream of subsequent attacks and murders among a few powerful members of the Santa Fe Pueblo Tribal Council tells the ghost hunters that there are more portraits, demons, and a nefarious mystery person's agenda to contend with.
As circumstances change and become even more deadly, the only thing the ghost-hunting crew can count on, besides each other, is that, where Will's portraits are hung, a demon and death quickly follow.
M.J., Heath, and Gilley must hunt Will down, get to the bottom of the mystery behind the targeted attacks, and lock the demons back in hell before the evil force behind their unleashing murders them all.
My Opinion: When you open the paperback, the reader is first confronted with quirky formatting. This is a self-published and possibly a published-on-demand paperback, so you must take that into consideration. The margins are wide, the paragraphs consist of one or two sentences, and there is just too much stark whiteness (if that makes sense). I wondered if everything was spread out to reach a page count. The editing is not atrocious, but there is room for improvement with wrong word order, incorrect words, and plot inconsistencies. Once again, self-published.
Now, on to the body. There are good bones here, but does the reader need five paragraphs on the magnetization of a hunk of metal? As for my favorite character in Victoria Laurie’s books, Gilly is front and center. In this book, he shows maturity, but there is still a squeaky side. There is a sentence or two regarding his life with Cat, but for the most part, that part of Gilly, or his relationships, is not mentioned, and considering MJ is his BFF, that seemed strange.
The book picks up in the final third, but it loses steam when the reasoning behind the haunting involves something out of left field. I wished that the author had done a little more research in this area since it does not ring true since they are on tribal land. Granted, this is a book of fiction, and people will possibly breeze over this, but it bothered me. That is saying a lot since there were multiple times when I would say out loud, “That doesn’t make sense.”
I am uncertain if this marks the conclusion of the series, but for me, this is where I jump off this train.
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