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Discovering Jupiter #1
Pretty Little Necromancer
Socialization. A fated mate. Everything she didn’t want.
Fated Mates was a topic Jupiter heard about growing up, but never expected to find hers. As a Necromancer, she didn’t exactly spend a lot of time with the living. Working in Mercy Hospital in Moonlight, Jupiter only engaged in casual conversation if she absolutely had to.
Then she met him.
A Fated Mate was never part of her plan. That required having to socialize. She took every measure that she could to not have to deal with people more than she had to by accepting the position inside of the morgue. Only the Fates don’t care.
Will Jupiter accept her fate or remain inside of the confines of the dark morgue in the damp basement? Only time will tell.
~ Fated Mates / 18+
Fated Mates was a topic Jupiter heard about growing up, but never expected to find hers. As a Necromancer, she didn’t exactly spend a lot of time with the living. Working in Mercy Hospital in Moonlight, Jupiter only engaged in casual conversation if she absolutely had to.
Then she met him.
A Fated Mate was never part of her plan. That required having to socialize. She took every measure that she could to not have to deal with people more than she had to by accepting the position inside of the morgue. Only the Fates don’t care.
Will Jupiter accept her fate or remain inside of the confines of the dark morgue in the damp basement? Only time will tell.
~ Fated Mates / 18+
382 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 30, 2023
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January 25, 2024
Rating this book only 3 stars pains me. There is so much good in it, and it drew me in like few books did of late, particularly from the second half on; but there are things that make me unable to rate it higher.
The most prominent of all: the typos. I unfortunately have to echo someone else's review: there are so many typos in this book. We are talking about an average of 3/4 per chapter (on a total of 90 chapters). Grammar mistakes, repetitions, sudden name changes (Pallama/Pamela), frequent switches from present tense to past tense. It was distracting, if not straight up confusing at times. And it is such a PITY. It's heartbreaking to see such a nice story ruined by such a petty detail, but it is too blatant to ignore.
Compared to this, the other minus points pale, but I'll mention them for completion's sake.
I would say it is not a book for those who want to understand everything immediately: it took me a good 20-30% to get into the complex world the author weaves. In a couple of instances, I thought I had skipped a chapter, because I couldn't follow how they connected with the rest. It didn't help for me that only side-quests are introduced in this initial part, which will be mentioned back across the book, but have a rather marginal role.
The secondary characters don't have much development, which is ok, it makes me look forward to the second book; but I was surprised to see Jupyter call them "friends", considering how little they interacted and how little we know about them.
Now, on to the good things, because there are many.
The world is alive, vibrant, and super interesting. The hospital is a beehive and there's always something going on.
The main storyline is ADDICTIVE. From the second half of the book on, I devoured in a couple of sittings, which is not common for me.
I struggled to vibe with Jupyter at the beginning, but boy did I grow to care about her, and I was cheering for her big time by the end. She's my gal now. Can't wait to see her move forward and grow. Her snarkiness grew onto me, and gave me quite a few big laughs, the uncontrollable ones that make people on the train turn to check what's wrong.
I quite like Merrick too, though I'd love to see him more developed, hopefully in the next instalment.
And bonus point for the chapter titles, because they are witty and hilarious.
This might not be a perfect story, but it's a GOOD one. It really is. It left me wanting for more. So dear author, if within your possibilities, I BEG you to consider a good round of proofreading for this book. It deserves the polishing.
The most prominent of all: the typos. I unfortunately have to echo someone else's review: there are so many typos in this book. We are talking about an average of 3/4 per chapter (on a total of 90 chapters). Grammar mistakes, repetitions, sudden name changes (Pallama/Pamela), frequent switches from present tense to past tense. It was distracting, if not straight up confusing at times. And it is such a PITY. It's heartbreaking to see such a nice story ruined by such a petty detail, but it is too blatant to ignore.
Compared to this, the other minus points pale, but I'll mention them for completion's sake.
I would say it is not a book for those who want to understand everything immediately: it took me a good 20-30% to get into the complex world the author weaves. In a couple of instances, I thought I had skipped a chapter, because I couldn't follow how they connected with the rest. It didn't help for me that only side-quests are introduced in this initial part, which will be mentioned back across the book, but have a rather marginal role.
The secondary characters don't have much development, which is ok, it makes me look forward to the second book; but I was surprised to see Jupyter call them "friends", considering how little they interacted and how little we know about them.
Now, on to the good things, because there are many.
The world is alive, vibrant, and super interesting. The hospital is a beehive and there's always something going on.
The main storyline is ADDICTIVE. From the second half of the book on, I devoured in a couple of sittings, which is not common for me.
I struggled to vibe with Jupyter at the beginning, but boy did I grow to care about her, and I was cheering for her big time by the end. She's my gal now. Can't wait to see her move forward and grow. Her snarkiness grew onto me, and gave me quite a few big laughs, the uncontrollable ones that make people on the train turn to check what's wrong.
I quite like Merrick too, though I'd love to see him more developed, hopefully in the next instalment.
And bonus point for the chapter titles, because they are witty and hilarious.
This might not be a perfect story, but it's a GOOD one. It really is. It left me wanting for more. So dear author, if within your possibilities, I BEG you to consider a good round of proofreading for this book. It deserves the polishing.
June 2, 2024
Hated every minute of reading this book. Do not bother.
The prologue is useless and non-informative; basically just shows the FMC getting spooked by mystery magic and asking for a job transfer to the morgue. As if we needed to know why she wanted to work in the morgue when her chapter 1 thoughts about a grieving family include her noting that the deceased’s sister isn’t crying like the parents, causing her to think, “Good for her.” As if grief is some sort of flaw.
From the book blurb mentioning the FMC disliking socialization, I was really hoping for a neurodivergent or even explicitly autistic FMC, and was disappointed to find she’s basically a sad-girl/edgelord/pick-me/goth-gf type.
> I quickly shake it off to pull myself together, lifting my burrito to tear a bite out of it and chew, letting out a low moan as the guacamole within hits my tastebuds. It’s my favorite flavor. Odd, I know, but it is.
> I can just barely make out bubblegum pink hair and wrinkle my nose. Too cheery for my taste if you ask me. How anyone can stand that much is beyond me. And to have hair colored pink? Ugh. I hated it when girls did that in school, and I definitely hate it now as an adult. It’s worse.
> I also realized a long time ago that even without my abilities, I would still be the gothic chick of my class. Black and royal purple are my favorite colors, and I enjoy the darkness. I can do nice things, though, like crocheting, for example. I’m not all tainted by shadows and darkness.
Please learn to edit! Not just proofread, but get to the point. The book is so, so meandering and boring. Two chapters are dedicated to the FMC trying to warm up a burrito for lunch. Another one is just her going outside for two seconds, getting a dirty look from her preppy coworkers, seeing a taco truck and then going back inside. One chapter consists only of her riding an elevator. We don’t even get to see the meeting she was riding the elevator to attend. It just cuts to the next day at work. WTF?
By the way, I hope you’re not an emetophobe because guess what? It gets nasty. The FMC’s reaction to being sick in front of her crush and losing her phone is so over-the-top and weird. She trips and falls in a pile of her own … you know … but honestly if this happened IRL at a hospital, your coworkers (even the fake blondes who lowkey hate you) would probably rush over, help you up, walk you to the nearest shower, bring you fresh scrubs, and offer to drive you home or call you an Uber. (And then later gossip about you, but whatever.) They definitely wouldn’t just stare at you, go “u ok?” and then let you run off like a cartoon character. But that’s what the FMC does, and when she realizes she’s lost her phone, she is like “welp, if my crush has it, guess I better transfer immediately because my life is over. All my erotic friend fiction is in the notes app and I don’t have a password to my phone, so he’s probably reading my secrets right now. JK I’ll keep this job lol I love working at a place where everyone hates me”
There are so many plot holes and mistakes. She is encouraged by her ex-friend to go to a Halloween ball she hasn’t even heard about (literally “you should go!” And “get out of that crummy morgue for once!”) and then two chapters later casually mentions that the ball was mandatory. She loses her phone in one chapter and then has her phone in her purse in another, and then gets her phone returned to her later. She makes a deal with someone to remove a hex, but tells them they’ll have to find the reagents themselves, and then later the client comes back to cancel her services and she complains that the reagents are expensive—the ones she specifically did not buy.
I wanted to die of secondhand embarrassment when this happened:
> MMC: “Hello. You puked on my shoes.”
> FMC: “I didn’t mean to. I’m really sorry.”
> MMC: “I found it amusing.” [introduces himself, asks where she works, she sidesteps the question]
> FMC: “I really didn’t mean to vomit on your shoes.”
> MMC: “Honestly, it’s what made me notice you. I’m glad it happened.”
WTF you guys? That’s not a meet cute, that’s a nightmare. Like a stress dream you have when you’re getting back into the dating scene after a long while. He hits her with scintillating conversational lines like “So, you like to crochet?” “What’s your name?” and “So, the morgue?” To which she replies with vapid staring and blinking at him. No, seriously, she didn’t actually answer any of those questions.
The book then weirdly transitions into a confusing sequence of fever dream hallucinations, lockdowns, snowstorms, sinkholes and ex-friends and exes taunting her instead of just, y’know, getting a life, and that’s when I realized I should’ve DNFed at 20% like I wanted to.
The FMC does a whole lot of weird stuff that is absolutely not in the job description of a hospital morgue… whatever she is. Like investigating stolen bodies, cremating people, and digging graves.
Finally, her parents trap her in a super-avoidable confrontation that she was warned not to attend, painfully stripping her of her goddess-given powers while everyone who cares about her is either oblivious or supernaturally prevented from offering assistance. And then the book just ends. Yay.
The prologue is useless and non-informative; basically just shows the FMC getting spooked by mystery magic and asking for a job transfer to the morgue. As if we needed to know why she wanted to work in the morgue when her chapter 1 thoughts about a grieving family include her noting that the deceased’s sister isn’t crying like the parents, causing her to think, “Good for her.” As if grief is some sort of flaw.
From the book blurb mentioning the FMC disliking socialization, I was really hoping for a neurodivergent or even explicitly autistic FMC, and was disappointed to find she’s basically a sad-girl/edgelord/pick-me/goth-gf type.
> I quickly shake it off to pull myself together, lifting my burrito to tear a bite out of it and chew, letting out a low moan as the guacamole within hits my tastebuds. It’s my favorite flavor. Odd, I know, but it is.
> I can just barely make out bubblegum pink hair and wrinkle my nose. Too cheery for my taste if you ask me. How anyone can stand that much is beyond me. And to have hair colored pink? Ugh. I hated it when girls did that in school, and I definitely hate it now as an adult. It’s worse.
> I also realized a long time ago that even without my abilities, I would still be the gothic chick of my class. Black and royal purple are my favorite colors, and I enjoy the darkness. I can do nice things, though, like crocheting, for example. I’m not all tainted by shadows and darkness.
Please learn to edit! Not just proofread, but get to the point. The book is so, so meandering and boring. Two chapters are dedicated to the FMC trying to warm up a burrito for lunch. Another one is just her going outside for two seconds, getting a dirty look from her preppy coworkers, seeing a taco truck and then going back inside. One chapter consists only of her riding an elevator. We don’t even get to see the meeting she was riding the elevator to attend. It just cuts to the next day at work. WTF?
By the way, I hope you’re not an emetophobe because guess what? It gets nasty. The FMC’s reaction to being sick in front of her crush and losing her phone is so over-the-top and weird. She trips and falls in a pile of her own … you know … but honestly if this happened IRL at a hospital, your coworkers (even the fake blondes who lowkey hate you) would probably rush over, help you up, walk you to the nearest shower, bring you fresh scrubs, and offer to drive you home or call you an Uber. (And then later gossip about you, but whatever.) They definitely wouldn’t just stare at you, go “u ok?” and then let you run off like a cartoon character. But that’s what the FMC does, and when she realizes she’s lost her phone, she is like “welp, if my crush has it, guess I better transfer immediately because my life is over. All my erotic friend fiction is in the notes app and I don’t have a password to my phone, so he’s probably reading my secrets right now. JK I’ll keep this job lol I love working at a place where everyone hates me”
There are so many plot holes and mistakes. She is encouraged by her ex-friend to go to a Halloween ball she hasn’t even heard about (literally “you should go!” And “get out of that crummy morgue for once!”) and then two chapters later casually mentions that the ball was mandatory. She loses her phone in one chapter and then has her phone in her purse in another, and then gets her phone returned to her later. She makes a deal with someone to remove a hex, but tells them they’ll have to find the reagents themselves, and then later the client comes back to cancel her services and she complains that the reagents are expensive—the ones she specifically did not buy.
I wanted to die of secondhand embarrassment when this happened:
> MMC: “Hello. You puked on my shoes.”
> FMC: “I didn’t mean to. I’m really sorry.”
> MMC: “I found it amusing.” [introduces himself, asks where she works, she sidesteps the question]
> FMC: “I really didn’t mean to vomit on your shoes.”
> MMC: “Honestly, it’s what made me notice you. I’m glad it happened.”
WTF you guys? That’s not a meet cute, that’s a nightmare. Like a stress dream you have when you’re getting back into the dating scene after a long while. He hits her with scintillating conversational lines like “So, you like to crochet?” “What’s your name?” and “So, the morgue?” To which she replies with vapid staring and blinking at him. No, seriously, she didn’t actually answer any of those questions.
The book then weirdly transitions into a confusing sequence of fever dream hallucinations, lockdowns, snowstorms, sinkholes and ex-friends and exes taunting her instead of just, y’know, getting a life, and that’s when I realized I should’ve DNFed at 20% like I wanted to.
The FMC does a whole lot of weird stuff that is absolutely not in the job description of a hospital morgue… whatever she is. Like investigating stolen bodies, cremating people, and digging graves.
Finally, her parents trap her in a super-avoidable confrontation that she was warned not to attend, painfully stripping her of her goddess-given powers while everyone who cares about her is either oblivious or supernaturally prevented from offering assistance. And then the book just ends. Yay.
December 14, 2023
Great Story Line
This series has tons of promise. It just needs a great proofreader to iron out the kinks. The errors in the book were a bit distracting at times. I did enjoy reading the book and look forward to see what happens next.
This series has tons of promise. It just needs a great proofreader to iron out the kinks. The errors in the book were a bit distracting at times. I did enjoy reading the book and look forward to see what happens next.
March 23, 2024
Like a mental breakdown
DNF, stopped at 74%. This was not my thing. Its like jupiter is stuck in ger own head and we barely get bits and pieces of the world around her.
The inner monologue in her head gets boring fast and all characters around her are har to keep track of. Merrick the supposed fated mate got brown eyes and are taller the her other than that we know nothing.
The story starts confused and the back story are told in small pieces which doesnt maje sense and its actually hard to actually understand. Doesnt get better with the weird janitor hunt or all powers that she randomly pulls up her sleeve.
No this was bad
DNF, stopped at 74%. This was not my thing. Its like jupiter is stuck in ger own head and we barely get bits and pieces of the world around her.
The inner monologue in her head gets boring fast and all characters around her are har to keep track of. Merrick the supposed fated mate got brown eyes and are taller the her other than that we know nothing.
The story starts confused and the back story are told in small pieces which doesnt maje sense and its actually hard to actually understand. Doesnt get better with the weird janitor hunt or all powers that she randomly pulls up her sleeve.
No this was bad
February 20, 2024
Enjoyable Read!
I really got sucked into this book and flew through it. Jupiter is a character I can relate to and this book is about her finding out just who she really is. I love the way the intensity builds up throughout and that there are a lot of secrets and truths still to be revealed.
Can’t wait to read the next instalment!
I really got sucked into this book and flew through it. Jupiter is a character I can relate to and this book is about her finding out just who she really is. I love the way the intensity builds up throughout and that there are a lot of secrets and truths still to be revealed.
Can’t wait to read the next instalment!
September 3, 2025
I had very high hopes for this book. I love a necromancer book with a touch of fantasy.
However, I found it kind of boring. The FMC works in a morgue and can talk to the dead people that come in but she can’t admit she a mate.
I was thinking the romance would be all over the book but it was just a small little part at 50 to 65% of the book.
However, I found it kind of boring. The FMC works in a morgue and can talk to the dead people that come in but she can’t admit she a mate.
I was thinking the romance would be all over the book but it was just a small little part at 50 to 65% of the book.
February 20, 2024
The book started off slow but intriguing! I put it down for a bit and picked it back up and just couldn't stop reading once I got halfway through! Some typos, but all in all, I can't wait to dive into the next book!
October 10, 2023
I did not finish this book. I got bored, but maybe I’ll come back and finish it at a later time.
March 4, 2024
I have absolutely fallen in love with this series I can’t put it down I can’t wait for the next book!
March 9, 2024
I tried really hard to like this book and to finish it, but I couldn't. I really dislike the main character, and don't care for the others either. Just not my kind of book.
January 4, 2025
had a good concept
had a good concept. I enjoyed the story but the repetitive monologue was difficult to get through. I’m not sure if I should pick up book 2
had a good concept. I enjoyed the story but the repetitive monologue was difficult to get through. I’m not sure if I should pick up book 2
May 29, 2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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