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Epic Badassery: An Urban Fantasy Triple Threat Box Set
Embark on a journey of magic, mystery, and mothereffing magnificent women with EPIC BADASSERY: An Urban Fantasy Triple Threat!
Follow three unforgettable heroines as they navigate supernatural worlds, battle deadly enemies, and uncover long-buried secrets.
With their unique blend of snarky humor, sizzling romance, and heart-pumping action, this enchanting bundle will keep you turning pages late into the night.
Titles include:
Blood & Ash (The Jezebel Files, #1)
Missing teens. Impossible magic. And the sexy nemesis who might drive her to murder.
The Unlikeable Demon Hunter (Nava Katz, #1)
The mission: kill demons. The catch: infuriatingly sexy minder. The challenge: don't get the two confused.
Throwing Shade (Magic After Midlife, #1)
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that angry women get shit done. Miriam Feldman is ditching her shapewear and letting her magic fly free.
Dive in now!
Follow three unforgettable heroines as they navigate supernatural worlds, battle deadly enemies, and uncover long-buried secrets.
With their unique blend of snarky humor, sizzling romance, and heart-pumping action, this enchanting bundle will keep you turning pages late into the night.
Titles include:
Blood & Ash (The Jezebel Files, #1)
Missing teens. Impossible magic. And the sexy nemesis who might drive her to murder.
The Unlikeable Demon Hunter (Nava Katz, #1)
The mission: kill demons. The catch: infuriatingly sexy minder. The challenge: don't get the two confused.
Throwing Shade (Magic After Midlife, #1)
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that angry women get shit done. Miriam Feldman is ditching her shapewear and letting her magic fly free.
Dive in now!
980 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 19, 2024
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About the author
Deborah Wilde
45 books1,066 followersDeborah Wilde is a global wanderer and hopeless romantic. After twelve years as a screenwriter, she was also a total cynic with a broken edit button, so, she jumped ship, started writing funny, sexy, urban fantasy and paranormal women’s fiction books, and never looked back.
She loves writing smart, flawed, wisecracking women who can solve a mystery, kick supernatural butt, banter with hot men, and still make time for their best female friend, because those were the women she grew up around and admired. Granted, her grandmother never had to kill a demon at her weekly friend lunches, but Deborah is pretty sure she could have.
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Smart (ass) heroines. Epic magic. Red-hot romance.
She loves writing smart, flawed, wisecracking women who can solve a mystery, kick supernatural butt, banter with hot men, and still make time for their best female friend, because those were the women she grew up around and admired. Granted, her grandmother never had to kill a demon at her weekly friend lunches, but Deborah is pretty sure she could have.
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Smart (ass) heroines. Epic magic. Red-hot romance.
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January 16, 2025
This is a compilation of the first books in 3 different series' by the same author. Each book introduces a female kick-ass protagonist who snarks her way through life, and who never lets the men around her get the upper hand. I bought it when it was a greatly reduced price.
Blood and Ash
Ash met Levi back when they were in summer camp together as kids. She's always had a crush on him, but her snark doesn't allow for her to him know it. They dance around each other, hurling epithets back and forth. She's been brought up to believe she has no magic, so she's a mundane. As such, -her detective cases can only involve mundanes--no magic people allowed. Levi is in charge of overseeing magic people, so he objects when she tries to help magic-enhanced folks with problems. An accident puts Ash into the hospital, where her head must be partially shaved, which allows a hidden tattoo to be found. Turns out that it's a ward to keep her magic a secret even to her.
Within no time, Ash learns how to use her magic, and becomes a super-sleuth for magical folks. Levi is not impressed. But they still have steamy sex--because. Until she visits him with news to find another woman in his house for dinner. Then they have rage sex afterward. And she solves the mysteries she's been investigating.
I was interested in all of the details surrounding her Jewish heritage that creates her magic. I didn't look anything up, just went with the flow of words and customs I didn't understand. But I found her excessive snark to be off-putting, and the relationship between her and Levi to be somewhat toxic. I won't be reading the other books in the series.
The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
Nava is a 20 year-old party girl fond of drinking to excess and having lots of anonymous sex. So far I'm with her. But her snark is just too much for me. Her nickname for her "lady bits" is way over the top--especially because she uses a word that I treasure as an insult, and using it as she does, so casually, takes away the weight of the insult.
She wanders into her house hung-over at the beginning of the book, only to find that she's late for her brother's ceremonial ritual that welcomes him into a secret Jewish society of monster-hunters. She apologizes for being late, drinks the ceremonial wine, then vomits on the rabbi. Um, cool? Then when they attempt to finish the ceremony, the ritual magical item chooses her, instead of her twin brother. He's trained his whole life to be a part of a society that rejects the very idea of a woman being one of them. And now he has no idea what to do with his life, and she's determined to show all of the men who think she can't do this, that she can do it better than they can. Plus she wants them to reinstate her twin also.
She gets assigned to a master, Rohan, who has no desire to train a woman for man's work--so of course they'll end up having sex. Sigh. I did enjoy learning about the Jewish rituals and customs, but I wonder which are real and which are made up to suit the story? And even though the story was interesting enough to finish, I have to agree with the title that Nava is indeed unlikeable. I won't be reading any more in the series.
Throwing Shade
Miriam is as divorced woman who shares custody of her daughter with her ex, who lives next door in the duplex they share. They got divorced because he confessed to her that he prefers men. This is handled very crudely at the start of the book, when she snarks with him about who enjoys anal sex more. Um, OK? Their daughter is a drama queen, as many 16-year-olds are. She lives with each of them alternating weeks, which allows for the story to continue, since she won't notice what her mom's involved in during the weeks she's with her dad, who is a cop. Apparently he won't notice either.
Miri knew she had magic of a special, Jewish sort, because her parents did also. But they died when she was 15--murdered by those who hated the kind of magic they had. So she's been keeping her magic bottled up inside her for the past 25+ years. She lives a boring "sapien" life, which means she acts as if she has no magic. But when a random guy she flirts with in a bar after her bestie stands her up, tries to rape her in an alley, she lets her magic shadow out to stop him. She's losing the battle until a huge werewolf shows up to finish the evil-doer off.
Now that her magic is unleashed, will she continue to live her life as a boring "sap," or will she follow along to see what life with magic can be like? Turns out she really doesn't have a choice, because of course her magic was noticed. And those who killed her parents were never found, so are they still after her? And can she share what she is with her ex and daughter, if only to try to keep them safe? Will she be able to rescue her artist bestie who created a sentient golem? And will she and the werewolf (she calls him "Huff and Puff") ever have sex?
Once again, I didn't really like the heroine. She constantly insults herself and other women "of a certain age," for being ignored by society, when in actuality, she's the one who puts herself down. She's capable at her job as a law firm librarian, but is bored. Magic is exciting, and so is being hunted and almost killed. But can she protect those she loves? And will the werewolf, Laurent, ever have sex with her, or will she have to buy more batteries for her sex toy? I did like the daughter character, and an older (80's) female artist who apparently has more power than any other magical persons, including vampires. But nothing inspires me to want to revisit this world.
Blood and Ash
Ash met Levi back when they were in summer camp together as kids. She's always had a crush on him, but her snark doesn't allow for her to him know it. They dance around each other, hurling epithets back and forth. She's been brought up to believe she has no magic, so she's a mundane. As such, -her detective cases can only involve mundanes--no magic people allowed. Levi is in charge of overseeing magic people, so he objects when she tries to help magic-enhanced folks with problems. An accident puts Ash into the hospital, where her head must be partially shaved, which allows a hidden tattoo to be found. Turns out that it's a ward to keep her magic a secret even to her.
Within no time, Ash learns how to use her magic, and becomes a super-sleuth for magical folks. Levi is not impressed. But they still have steamy sex--because. Until she visits him with news to find another woman in his house for dinner. Then they have rage sex afterward. And she solves the mysteries she's been investigating.
I was interested in all of the details surrounding her Jewish heritage that creates her magic. I didn't look anything up, just went with the flow of words and customs I didn't understand. But I found her excessive snark to be off-putting, and the relationship between her and Levi to be somewhat toxic. I won't be reading the other books in the series.
The Unlikeable Demon Hunter
Nava is a 20 year-old party girl fond of drinking to excess and having lots of anonymous sex. So far I'm with her. But her snark is just too much for me. Her nickname for her "lady bits" is way over the top--especially because she uses a word that I treasure as an insult, and using it as she does, so casually, takes away the weight of the insult.
She wanders into her house hung-over at the beginning of the book, only to find that she's late for her brother's ceremonial ritual that welcomes him into a secret Jewish society of monster-hunters. She apologizes for being late, drinks the ceremonial wine, then vomits on the rabbi. Um, cool? Then when they attempt to finish the ceremony, the ritual magical item chooses her, instead of her twin brother. He's trained his whole life to be a part of a society that rejects the very idea of a woman being one of them. And now he has no idea what to do with his life, and she's determined to show all of the men who think she can't do this, that she can do it better than they can. Plus she wants them to reinstate her twin also.
She gets assigned to a master, Rohan, who has no desire to train a woman for man's work--so of course they'll end up having sex. Sigh. I did enjoy learning about the Jewish rituals and customs, but I wonder which are real and which are made up to suit the story? And even though the story was interesting enough to finish, I have to agree with the title that Nava is indeed unlikeable. I won't be reading any more in the series.
Throwing Shade
Miriam is as divorced woman who shares custody of her daughter with her ex, who lives next door in the duplex they share. They got divorced because he confessed to her that he prefers men. This is handled very crudely at the start of the book, when she snarks with him about who enjoys anal sex more. Um, OK? Their daughter is a drama queen, as many 16-year-olds are. She lives with each of them alternating weeks, which allows for the story to continue, since she won't notice what her mom's involved in during the weeks she's with her dad, who is a cop. Apparently he won't notice either.
Miri knew she had magic of a special, Jewish sort, because her parents did also. But they died when she was 15--murdered by those who hated the kind of magic they had. So she's been keeping her magic bottled up inside her for the past 25+ years. She lives a boring "sapien" life, which means she acts as if she has no magic. But when a random guy she flirts with in a bar after her bestie stands her up, tries to rape her in an alley, she lets her magic shadow out to stop him. She's losing the battle until a huge werewolf shows up to finish the evil-doer off.
Now that her magic is unleashed, will she continue to live her life as a boring "sap," or will she follow along to see what life with magic can be like? Turns out she really doesn't have a choice, because of course her magic was noticed. And those who killed her parents were never found, so are they still after her? And can she share what she is with her ex and daughter, if only to try to keep them safe? Will she be able to rescue her artist bestie who created a sentient golem? And will she and the werewolf (she calls him "Huff and Puff") ever have sex?
Once again, I didn't really like the heroine. She constantly insults herself and other women "of a certain age," for being ignored by society, when in actuality, she's the one who puts herself down. She's capable at her job as a law firm librarian, but is bored. Magic is exciting, and so is being hunted and almost killed. But can she protect those she loves? And will the werewolf, Laurent, ever have sex with her, or will she have to buy more batteries for her sex toy? I did like the daughter character, and an older (80's) female artist who apparently has more power than any other magical persons, including vampires. But nothing inspires me to want to revisit this world.
August 13, 2024
All of these books good
These were some of best stories I have read. All of them were about Jewish herowins who fight for good. Very interesting stories.
These were some of best stories I have read. All of them were about Jewish herowins who fight for good. Very interesting stories.
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