A review by briarrose1021
Grave New World by Demitria Lunetta, Kate Karyus Quinn, Marley Lynn
5.0
Paige Harper, expert literary pun creator and owner of Down and Dirty Supernatural Cleaning Services. If you have a mess, she can clean it up. For a price, of course. And when she's offered the opportunity to clean a large house by a fae for double her regular rate, she jumps at the opportunity. Because business hasn't exactly been great recently. And does have bills to pay, so she's going to ignore the warning that her sexy private-eye office neighbor gives her about working with this fae.
And while Paige has cleaned up some crazy messes - which includes sharks in a giant water tank; no, you really don't want to know - she is not prepared when she shows up at the house of her new, extremely well-paying job, to find a large house with a lot of dust and not much else. Until she does upstairs. That's where she finds her ex-husband Jax - the man who is actually a fae changeling that she married before learning about that, and then divorced him when she found him cheating on her in their bedroom, above their bed (yes, you read that correctly) - standing above a very dead and very bloody body holding a knife.
Naturally, she calls the police, and Jax is arrested and charged with the murders of all of the vampires that have been turning up dead recently.
But Jax isn't a murderer. Paige knows that. And once she gets over the anger she feels at learning that Jax has used her house - technically his house - as a buy-in for a poker game this weekend, she will start working on proving that.
And if you think that's a lot to tell you about this story, you're in for a crazy fast ride, because that all happens in the first 20%, and it doesn't slow down. Paige's investigation goes from 0 to 600 in about 8 seconds flat and contains some crazy twists and turns.
There are also some great characters, and I am definitely coming back to see what's going to happen between Paige and Nico, the werewolf that she absolutely wants nothing to do with, never mind the vivid pictures that go through her mind when he's around. I also loved Darron, the elderly former stage actor who won a free room for ten years from Jax in a poker game (see again: Jax is an extremely frustrating idiotic fae that drives Paige crazy).
I'll be honest, I wasn't entirely sure how this one was going to end aside from solving the case of proving Jax's innocence, but I definitely loved it, and I will absolutely be getting the next book in the series to see what happens.
The only thing that I didn't really like is the page-packing in the book. I thought I was getting a book that was 208 pages long. Instead, I got a story that ended with over 10% of the book left; that 10% was made up of the first chapters of the next book in this series and the first book of two other series. I understand why authors might choose to do this, and I don't necessarily mind including a teaser from the next book in the series. But the other books bothered me. Still, that's a minor thing, and it doesn't affect the story - which was good. So, if you get this book, just be prepared for the story to finish before the book does.
And while Paige has cleaned up some crazy messes - which includes sharks in a giant water tank; no, you really don't want to know - she is not prepared when she shows up at the house of her new, extremely well-paying job, to find a large house with a lot of dust and not much else. Until she does upstairs. That's where she finds her ex-husband Jax - the man who is actually a fae changeling that she married before learning about that, and then divorced him when she found him cheating on her in their bedroom, above their bed (yes, you read that correctly) - standing above a very dead and very bloody body holding a knife.
Naturally, she calls the police, and Jax is arrested and charged with the murders of all of the vampires that have been turning up dead recently.
But Jax isn't a murderer. Paige knows that. And once she gets over the anger she feels at learning that Jax has used her house - technically his house - as a buy-in for a poker game this weekend, she will start working on proving that.
And if you think that's a lot to tell you about this story, you're in for a crazy fast ride, because that all happens in the first 20%, and it doesn't slow down. Paige's investigation goes from 0 to 600 in about 8 seconds flat and contains some crazy twists and turns.
There are also some great characters, and I am definitely coming back to see what's going to happen between Paige and Nico, the werewolf that she absolutely wants nothing to do with, never mind the vivid pictures that go through her mind when he's around. I also loved Darron, the elderly former stage actor who won a free room for ten years from Jax in a poker game (see again: Jax is an extremely frustrating idiotic fae that drives Paige crazy).
I'll be honest, I wasn't entirely sure how this one was going to end aside from solving the case of proving Jax's innocence, but I definitely loved it, and I will absolutely be getting the next book in the series to see what happens.
The only thing that I didn't really like is the page-packing in the book. I thought I was getting a book that was 208 pages long. Instead, I got a story that ended with over 10% of the book left; that 10% was made up of the first chapters of the next book in this series and the first book of two other series. I understand why authors might choose to do this, and I don't necessarily mind including a teaser from the next book in the series. But the other books bothered me. Still, that's a minor thing, and it doesn't affect the story - which was good. So, if you get this book, just be prepared for the story to finish before the book does.