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4 Stars... I enjoyed this introduction into the “Krewe Hunter Series”; it read somewhat as if I should be familiar with some of the background to the storyline which makes me wonder if it is a spinoff of another Heather Graham Series??... However, I found myself intrigued by the storyline and the characters as they navigate this cross between the paranormal and real world evils... The author provides an arresting backdrop for the story in New Orleans with such historical significance and turmoil...
Bourbon Street sign - note the Mardi Gras beads! ★★★½☆ (This is a review of the audiobook.) I like Jeff Cummings’s narration of this one. I’ve heard him before and have had no major complaints; however, I don't think he is quite as creative with the voices this time and his Southern accent is just adequate. *shrugs* He has nice pacing and inflection, but I found myself wondering if he doesn’t switch the voices/accents of the characters a time or two. Being a man with a
I knew if I kept giving HG enough changes that eventually I would find one of her books that I liked. She writes paranormal with romance and that is a winning combination for me. Unfortunately in the past it didn't always work out. Really liked Krewe of Hunters and thought Jackson was a good fit. He came off as arrogant sometimes, but for an alpha male that isn't all bad. I think him and Angela jumped into bed a little quick, but I thought this Krewe was going to span several books, but it looks...
I wanted to like this book, I truly did. It has some great potential: a crew of ghost hunters! Set in New Orleans! But somehow, the author's matter-of-fact rendering of NOLA makes you feel as though you may as well be reading about Peoria, Illinois. Descriptions of scenery and local color are sterile, rather than evocative. The story goes too fast to build up an effective feeling of suspense. And two of the main characters hop into bed pretty quick, when frankly there was very little believable
Too much personal stuff and a boring romance and not enough ghosts.
A good story, but certainly not one of Heather's best. I'll keep with the series, though, since I really like Heather Graham.Part of my antipathy with this book is that it was set in New Orleans. No offense to New Orleans, but I really don't think the town is a tenth of what people say it is. And, I get really tired of books set in New Orleans that read like part of it is written by the NO Tourist Board.That being said, I really like the characters in this book. She is very good at mixing supern...
So I saw this in the library under the "Hot Picks/New for May!" banner. And I picked it up. Man am I sorry I did!Ok, so the prologue really creeped me out. Like that was just plain SCARY! And I am not one for the horror genre at all!This kind of reminded me a little of The Shining and The Haunting, you know that moviewith Catherine Zeta-Jones? Yeah, totally cheesy, right?So what actually drew me in was the fact that the federal government sets up this investigation team, like an advanced tech-sa...
What I was after was a lighthearted fun paranormal book, an easy book to read when you are in need of something frivolous after some heavy dark books. What I got was a book that lacked any depth whatsoever. Characters that are not memorable, two main characters that at first doesn't seem to really go along, but end up in bed after a day or two. And, then they have some more sex during the book just because why the hell not. I mean they are working, trying to figure out if a woman was murdered or...
This is primarily a romance novel. When the two main characters fall into bed within 48 hours of meeting and there are two explicit sex scenes it is easy to see what the focus is on. I wish I had realized Mira is an imprint of Harlequin before I bought it.I picked this book up for the paranormal mystery that the blurb promises, in post Katrina New Orleans no less. There is upfront an emphasis on the Senator's wife being in a locked and security alarmed house when she supposedly jumps from her ba...
2.5 Adam Harrison, an investigator who worked for "the government where the government could not act officially", gathered a group of special individuals and formed a team whose task would be to investigate strange cases. Angela Hawkins, Whitney Tremont, Jake Mallory, Jenna Duffy and Will Chan are part of that team and he called Jackson Crow to lead them. Crow doesn't refuse to believe in supernatural, but he would rather carefully check everything else first. Adam knows that Jackson Crow won't
I really tried to like this book. But I just couldn't get into it! Basically it's like a very long, slow and boring episode of SCOOBY DOO, without the humor and the Scooby Snacks. The Nicest Ghostbusters in the World go to New Orleans, where there's a house full of Evil. The head ghost is named Melvin C. Neutron, or Milton B. Marshmallow, or something. He murdered a bunch of little kids with an axe back in the 1870's. And over the years, dozens of people have wandered into the house, slipped on
This Paranormal Romance has a touch of mystery. I feel the mystery is equally as strong as the romance plot. As a reader, I feel the protagonists as well as the secondary characters played an equal part in the novel. At times it felt as if the line between primary and secondary characters blurred. The paranormal element felt real and fit in nicely with the mystery. I didn't particularly like how the heroine, Angela Hawkins, had to prove herself when the other characters did not have to. Jackson
Pheeble!*The Heather Graham who writes bestsellers may be "The Original Heather Graham," but I am willing to bet that Heather Graham the actress could toast generic white bread with more style and engagement than this sorry excuse for a thriller.Graham has churned out an average of five novels every years for the past thirty years. How much originality is left? Imagine a high school junior staggering down Bourbon Street. "Gee whiz, I shouldn't have drank those six hand gernades. And all those sh...
I was surprised to find I had a copy of this book when I saw that one of my groups was going to do a group read on it, so I hurriedly squeezed it into my schedule. While I am not much of a Paranormal Romance reader these days, there was enough of a suspense angle to keep me interested in it.However, I did find some of the book unbelievable. The group meshed together too quickly for me to easily believe it, and likewise Angela and Jackson's relationship moved forward too quickly to be believed. T...
When I got this home from the library, I noticed that it's published by a division of Harlequin. Oh dear... I read the blurb and was all "Huh. Secret government agency hunting ghosts. Could be interesting." The minute I saw who the publisher was, my estimations went downhill.But it wasn't as bad as I expected. Sure, there was the obligatory "I've only known you 24 hours but I feel like we're soulmates, let's boff" side to it, which did very little to advance the plot. Also, there's not enough mo...
I got this one through the Audible Romance package. It's one of the reasons I wanted to do the trial. I bought several of these on CD when audiobooks.com sold a bunch at $3-6, earlier this year. I decided I wanted to read this series. Risky when I hadn't listened to any before buying. But most of the later ones are Luke Daniels narrating so that was a big plus. This was a different narrator who was ok. His female voices were a bit strange. He did do better with the NOLA accents.
Surprisingly good:I love it when a book pleasantly surprises and this book did it. I enjoyed all the characters in the team of Krewe Hunters and also enjoyed the mystery and how the author brought it all together in the end. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this one and I am glad the author focused on both the paranormal and human side of the world are team gets involved in.The mystery is great and had plenty twists along the way to keep the listener wondering just how convoluted and tied toget...
I couldn't put this down, honestly. I spent a whole evening after work sitting and reading with very little regard for any other adulting I should've been doing. I was pulled in by the mystery, the human and ghostly aspects of it. I also am weak for stories about strangers with very specific skills who come together to form a team/found family. I liked what I got to see of all of the team members. My hang-ups: the exposition and character introductions at the beginning were super clunky. Then, w...
I hate to not like a piece of art, whether it be a book, a painting, or music. But sometimes, the art just doesn't touch me. Or worse, the piece will feel contrived, or mundane, or even feel like the artist didn't put a lot of effort into it.I'm not going to blame Heather Graham of not putting effort into this book, but I will say that it didn't really ever grab me. From the start we get some interesting characters, but sadly, the more we learn about them the less interesting they become. We hav...
I read this book but because I had previously read Heather Graham's "Flynn Brothers Triolgy" A series that I truly enjoyed. (Until the very end of the last book. Where it appeared to me that Ms. Graham smoked a fat one and wrote the ending. Not a true story... just a theory.) That part aside, it was fun to read.Te plot was not interesting at all. The characters are constantly over explaining everything. And the ending was just really terrible.When I was reading this book, I swear with my right h...