Dead to the World by Annabel Chase
Lorelei Clay isn’t like other people.
She isn’t even like other supernaturals. Her specialties are the nightmares of the living, communication with the dead, and cooking bacon until it’s golden brown and perfectly crispy—no magic required.
Six months ago she moved to the ultimate fixer upper, a monstrosity from the Gilded Age that borders the local cemetery in the sleepy Pennsylvania town of Fairhaven. Lorelei is content to spend the next few years in solitude, renovating the house and avoiding humanity, until a missing young woman disrupts her plans. Lorelei’s search for the teenager means crossing paths with the residents she’s successfully avoided so far, including the human police chief, the coven, a cursed vampire, the assassins guild, the werewolf pack, and the mysterious and infuriatingly alluring owner of The Devil’s Playground, an elegant nightclub that caters to the local supernatural clientele.
Lorelei plans to find the girl quickly and return to the privacy of her castle walls before anyone learns her secrets, but you know what they say about the best laid plans…
- File Name:dead-to-the-world-by-annabel-chase.epub
- Original Title:Dead to the World
- Creator:Annabel Chase
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B0C3WQDYKS
- Publisher:Red Palm Press LLC
- Date:2023-05-10T16:00:00+00:00
- File Size:777.924 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Title Page
- 2. Contents
- 3. Chapter 1
- 4. Chapter 2
- 5. Chapter 3
- 6. Chapter 4
- 7. Chapter 5
- 8. Chapter 6
- 9. Chapter 7
- 10. Chapter 8
- 11. Chapter 9
- 12. Chapter 10
- 13. Chapter 11
- 14. Chapter 12
- 15. Chapter 13
- 16. Chapter 14
- 17. Chapter 15
- 18. Chapter 16
- 19. Chapter 17
- 20. Chapter 18
- 21. Chapter 19
- 22. Other Series by Annabel Chase
Sooo not a paranormal romance, at least not until book 2, my bad. In that case it's a very (nonexistent) slow burn. I wouldn't agree that its all meat personally, the first 10-12 chapter are just her meeting the locals, no real progress made (with the mysteries). Mostly world building and introductory. The action/clues happen mainly within the last 4 chapters. The author writes well and it keeps your attention, but the main character lacks personality outside of "mysterious lady doing mysterious things". She's a 35 y/o woman with a hidden past and identity (only alluded to within the first book) that's vibe is basically "I'm to old for this shit. Get off my lawn" it's a mood tho. I liked it. It's a good short read, that can be read as a standalone or a series. Going in with a mindset that this is just the set dressing for book 2 helps personally. We get the who, where and some of the why. Now we need the rest of why and the what.
Nice start, to the series. No filler all meat !!!! The story was very tightly contained.