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Jodie Lynn Zdrok

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Verk av Jodie Lynn Zdrok

Spectacle (2019) 96 exemplar
Sensational (2020) 21 exemplar

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Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan-Tor/Forge -Tor Teen for letting me read and review this book. I enjoyed it and could follow along easily with the same characters and such from having read the first book, Spectacle, which if you haven't read that one - you should go get it and read it now to get ready for this one!
This was another engrossing, fun and delightful read by Jodi Lynn Zdrok - I enjoyed the first book and this one was awesome too.
In this sequel to Spectacle, Nathalie is still using her powers as an Insightful to help out at the morgue with murder investigations while also trying to figure things out in regards to her Aunt and her Aunt's powers in relation to her powers. She is, in general, trying to investigate and understand what it means to be an Insightful and to be herself and what she wants out of life as well.
In this story, there's another crazy murderer who this time is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Guillotine and writing a play to go with their murders and victims while beheading them and leaving them around in the Exposition Universelle in Paris to be found. Nathalie tries to help find this murderer using her powers while helping out at the morgue with the cases, but this time around it seems to catch her and others off guard as well as myself as the reader. I had no clue who the murderer was until the end and I was also a bit more invested in the other parts of the story like the events with Nathalie's Aunt and her coming to terms with her grief over her friend, Agnes.
Another major part of the story that I was invested in was that in this book, Nathalie has a beau, Jules, and what happens with him and their relationship as well as what happens with Christophe, which if you've read the first book, you'll know more about the relationship issues, etc. between Christophe and Nathalie. I finally got the ending I was hoping for with her and her romantic relationships with this book.
Once I got to the end and everything was resolving itself and I realized this was the end, I was a bit upset because I have enjoyed reading about Nathalie, Christophe, Simone, Louis, Jules, all the characters and about Insightfuls and their powers. I wish there was going to be more stories with these great characters and would love to know more about them and their futures as well as more info on Insightfuls and their powers.
If you've read Spectacle, then you need to read this sequel, if you haven't read Spectacle, go read it so you are ready for this Sensational book when it comes out!
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Kiaya40 | 1 annan recension | Jun 19, 2023 |
This was an interesting book. The author kept my interest but I kind of hated the ending - it just ended leaving me wanting more. Glad there’s more books coming out.
 
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dabutkus | 3 andra recensioner | Sep 4, 2022 |
I was given an ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Jodie Lynn Zdrok creates an interesting POV of a young woman navigating Paris during a Jack The Ripper-esque series of murders. The time period was charming, the setting was thrilling and made me nostalgic for my own time spent in Paris, and the plot had me at the edge of my seat. The magic world-building could have used a bit more meat to it, but was overall enough to become immersed in Nata’s situation.

That all being said, the story ended quite oddly. The last couple of chapters didn’t seem to fit the hidden gem I thought I had found in Zdrok, and what could have easily have been a fantastic stand alone was quite awkwardly posing for a sequel. The ending was a bit anti-climactic in the way that there was no connection between Nata and the killer, their identity was seemingly random. A random killer with no surprise twist could have been forgiven, but Nata didn’t even have a ‘final showdown’ so to speak with the Dark Artist or his ‘accomplices.’ What felt like a strong debut novel seemingly collapsed before the finish line.
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Nikki_Sojkowski | 3 andra recensioner | Aug 26, 2021 |
I read this book because I wanted something new, something original, and from a perspective that I wasn’t used to reading. Spectacle hit it out of the park on all fronts while also creating an amazing world that was simultaneously grounded in reality and was fantasy realism. The characters are in the forefront, we absolutely care about Nathalie and her journey, both in the normal sense and in the supernatural sense.
 
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stobert | 3 andra recensioner | Oct 21, 2020 |

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Verk
2
Medlemmar
117
Popularitet
#168,597
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
6
ISBN
15

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