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Laddar... Death at Peony House (The Invisible Entente Book 1)av Krista Walsh
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For 150 years? ?the case remains unsolved. Will Daphne's special powers help solve it? Daphne loves being a journalist. Digging up the next big story drives her. Sometimes, the leads take her down a different path. When she finds the body at Peony House, the city's abandoned hospital, she is onto more than just a big headline. Writing isn't her only talent. Daphne has powers. Things get complicated when Detective Hunter gets involved. They used to have a thing. She still loves him. When he tries to warn her away from the case, it puts her in a bind. Her editor wants the story for the Saturday edition, and she wants to get to the bottom of the boy's murder. There's just one problem. Hunter doesn't know her secret. With a dark past, a love she would like to rekindle, and an old murder that might tie to a current case, her life has just gotten complicated. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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I have very mixed feelings about this book. Parts of it deserve a higher rating, but some of it deserves less stars than it got.
What I did like: the plot was pretty good. Old hospital with some kind of unrest...a creepy ghost story vibe...a decently not boring storyline. Not bad.
What I didn't like: The characters. I had zero connection with the characters, especially Daphne. I wanted to, on the surface she seemed pretty solid, but in the end, I didn't really care about her. She was missing something for me. But even putting that aside, I didn't really connect with anyone in the story. Most I felt were added in to give the main character someone to talk to rather than for an actual purpose.
The world building. This is book one, but there is no world building. None. As the book progresses, you learn that there is magic, and magical folk, but no explanation or reasons. Even the magic...there are different colors, but no explanation. Are some better than others, more elemental, or are they color coded to make them easier to imagine for the reader? Daphne's power, where does it come from? What are the limits? Is there a cost? I need more to understand the story.
There was also a mention of Daphne's previous dark turn and some of the people she met....I think that story needs to be told. It's great to hint that she's overcome a lot, and great to see her saying she's atoning for it. But telling me she was bad and showing me are very different. I have a hard time believing in her.
***MILD SPOILER ALERT***Also, there were references to the darkness building and the meeting of the 5-7 people in the locked room (none of which was really explained at all), suggesting a connection. But if you are going to use something from that time to be the major arc in your series, I feel like you should write that part of the story. Forgive me if there is a prequel book I missed.
Overall, I wanted to really like this book, but it left me a little lukewarm. It's a great idea, I just had trouble connecting. (