Review: Possessed by Murder (Suddenly Psychic, Book 2) by JP Bird

 

A cold case, hot coffee, and an impromptu séance brew the smalltown amateur sleuth’s second murder case…

When her best friend convinces Amelia Wethers to participate in a séance, the newly minted psychic, barista and artist is forced to add possessed to her repertoire. Now, instead of seeing a ghost pleading with her to find her murdered body, Ami is sharing her body with the very hungry ghost of Henrietta Bathers, a Hillside resident who mysteriously disappeared over eighty years ago.

While Henrietta seems determined to eat her way through town and embrace all the human pleasures and discoveries she missed, Ami and her friends, and family, including her new detective boyfriend, investigate Henrietta’s life and last steps. They hope that by finding justice for Henrietta and reuniting her earthbound spirit with her family, the possession will end.

Adding to the chaos, her boyfriend’s parents unexpectedly arrive in town, making acting “normal” an even a bigger reach for free spirited Ami. And that’s before another ghost—this one vengeful—appears, threatening the living and dead.

 

My Review:

An entertaining and fast-paced book. 

This is one of the most original stories I have read in a while.  It is entertaining, interesting, unpredictable and even comical in some parts.  I enjoyed catching up with Amelia, this time possessed by Henrietta, a woman who has been missing for forty years.  The race is on to find Henrietta’s body and her killer.  Just when I thought the story couldn’t get any better, it did. 

 

Review: The Cowboy’s Reckoning (Bad Boys of the Rodeo, Book 3) by Jeannie Watt

She’s building a future on his land. He has to take it away.

When former rodeo rider Jordan Matthews inherits a ranch from the father he never knew, he plans to sell it fast—until he learns the deal comes with one condition: the property must be empty. Lil McAllen refuses to leave. After losing her father and her home, Lil has rebuilt everything on that land—for herself and her younger sister. Walking away isn’t an option.

If Jordan can’t force her out, the deal collapses—and with it, his only chance to leave the past behind for good. Then the ranch becomes a target. Fences are cut. Equipment is sabotaged. Livestock disappears. With danger closing in, Jordan has no choice but to stay and protect what isn’t his—working side by side with the woman who stands in his way.

Lil doesn’t take risks. Jordan is nothing but risk. But the longer he stays, the harder it is to ignore the truth—the man who came to take everything might be the one she can’t afford to lose.

 

My Review: 

I enjoyed everything about this book. 

All Jordan Matthews wanted to do was sell the ranch he inherited from his father and be done with him.  It just didn’t go as planned when he found out his renters, the McAllen sisters, had a long-term lease and refused to break it.  But when someone tries to scare the sisters off, Jordan’s will stop at nothing to protect them, especially Lil, who he starts to have feelings fa for.  I enjoyed this book from the very first page.  I couldn’t wait to see how it played out.  Even though it is part of a series, but can be read as a stand-alone. 

 

Review: These Immortal Nights (Bound by Blood, Book 2) by Kelsey McKnight

 

She invited the darkness. It answered with eternity.

Evangeline Goldyn has built her life on precision. Restoring broken homes. Controlling chaos. Believing calm is something you earn. But a midnight birthday wish shatters reality and binds her soul to something ancient, beautiful, and deadly.

Alessandro Benevoglio has survived centuries of blood, art, and obsession. A Renaissance-born vampire with a collector’s eye and a predator’s patience, he has never answered a mortal summons, that is, until Evangeline’s magic reaches through time and claims him. Their bond is instant. Unbreakable. And dangerously consuming.

From the isolation of the Pine Barrens and into the heart of New York City, the bond pushes them into a forced proximity as alluring as it is damning. But as vampire hunters close in and dark magic tightens its grip, desire turns feral, and devotion threatens to turn monstrous.

Loving him could cost her life. Leaving him could cost her soul.

In a world of immortal obsession and forbidden magic, some bonds are not meant to be broken.

Only survived.

 

My Review:

I am obsessed with this book and the series.  

It all started with a Ouija board.  It was Evangeline Goldyn’s birthday and the board was used for fun.  But it summed an ancient vampire, Alessandro Benevoglio.  Alessandro and Evangeline become bound together by a curse and don’t know if what they are feeling for each other is real or not.  The curse must be broken to reveal the truth.  But in the middle of a vampire/hunter war, when death can happen in an instant, will Alessandro and Evangeline find true love, or will it all blow away in the dust?   

This is a fast paced and entertaining book that I didn’t want to end.