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The Dead Set
Photography is Sixtine Soto’s life.
It's the ray of sunshine that guides her through lean times, unforgiving part time jobs, and the hardships of being ‘the poor kid’ in her high school.
Her specialty? Photos of abandoned places. There's something uplifting in the crumbling beauty of locations once-frequented by the living! Her online résumé is full of pictures with that special 'something' that wows viewers and takes their breath away -- ghosts. And even though she can't see them in her work, infamous ghost hunter, Rowan Hellebrand, can.
Invited into the shadowy world of one of the best-funded, most covert ghost hunting teams in operation, and tested by a hunting prodigy, Six soon finds the business of hunting ghosts is more cut-throat than the plethora of popular television shows -- whose cameras Rowan avoids -- would lead viewers to believe.
Then a frantic phone-call puts Sixtine on her first case as Hellebrand Survey's one-and-only spirit photographer.
Will skepticism survive a major haunting on her first day?
Can she make the cut?
Or will the ghost draw first blood?
You'll love this haunting book and its paranormal team, because when the chips are down and you can't fight back, there's nothing like a crack team of paranormal talents to get your back!Get it now!
It's the ray of sunshine that guides her through lean times, unforgiving part time jobs, and the hardships of being ‘the poor kid’ in her high school.
Her specialty? Photos of abandoned places. There's something uplifting in the crumbling beauty of locations once-frequented by the living! Her online résumé is full of pictures with that special 'something' that wows viewers and takes their breath away -- ghosts. And even though she can't see them in her work, infamous ghost hunter, Rowan Hellebrand, can.
Invited into the shadowy world of one of the best-funded, most covert ghost hunting teams in operation, and tested by a hunting prodigy, Six soon finds the business of hunting ghosts is more cut-throat than the plethora of popular television shows -- whose cameras Rowan avoids -- would lead viewers to believe.
Then a frantic phone-call puts Sixtine on her first case as Hellebrand Survey's one-and-only spirit photographer.
Will skepticism survive a major haunting on her first day?
Can she make the cut?
Or will the ghost draw first blood?
You'll love this haunting book and its paranormal team, because when the chips are down and you can't fight back, there's nothing like a crack team of paranormal talents to get your back!Get it now!
291 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 29, 2015
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Tracy Eire
46 books68 followersIf you supported my Cardinal Machines Kickstarter and want to know what's next: https://www.tracyeire.site/blog!
I'm a hardworking #Noblebright writer and an artist with a full-time job. You can see my books at https://www.tracyeire.site (click the book gate)!
Some of my heroines navigate a haunted world. Six is spirit photographer for the leading ghost-hunting team in the world. Some search the streets for skips on Locate cases. Young Zoey Cardinal is partnered with hella powerful android cop, 1-Ocean. In my fantasy novels political intrigues meet old-world technologies, elves, warriors, and magic. Ora Buckmaster is a heroine of the cutting kind, fighting to defend a Stranger King from an inhuman race. The men in my works are powerful counterparts, competitors, allies, and peers as a result.
Contact Me and sign up for my newsletter at https://www.tracyeire.site.
I'm a hardworking #Noblebright writer and an artist with a full-time job. You can see my books at https://www.tracyeire.site (click the book gate)!
Some of my heroines navigate a haunted world. Six is spirit photographer for the leading ghost-hunting team in the world. Some search the streets for skips on Locate cases. Young Zoey Cardinal is partnered with hella powerful android cop, 1-Ocean. In my fantasy novels political intrigues meet old-world technologies, elves, warriors, and magic. Ora Buckmaster is a heroine of the cutting kind, fighting to defend a Stranger King from an inhuman race. The men in my works are powerful counterparts, competitors, allies, and peers as a result.
Contact Me and sign up for my newsletter at https://www.tracyeire.site.
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January 27, 2017
I absolutely love this book! Sixtine and the characters around her are all well developed with their own personalities and motivations. The plot moves very organically and we get to know the characters with Six. Sixtine as a person is realistic in her concerns and feelings. She is also well balanced in her perceptions.
I find some authors go over the top in making their characters able to interpret behaviours or cues that would not he clear in real life. but Six doesn't know things a normal person wouldn't, and yet is not obtuse. She's perceptive, but realistically and not infallibly (Alice?).
I love that this book wasn't written around making two characters fall in desperate love with some plot thrown in afterwards. There is a very clear story being told, of Six as a person and figuring herself out, and of the events going on around her.
The author is really great at describing scenes without going over the top, and also without making it clear what will be important later. She has a gift for the creepy, and there are some particular lines that really gave me the creeps!! The supernatural elements are well thought out and avoid rote cliches so you don't know whats coming just because someone says 'ghost' or 'magic'. she has put her own unique ideas in here and built a world around them.
Going on right now to read the second book and I'm super excited to see what comes next!
I find some authors go over the top in making their characters able to interpret behaviours or cues that would not he clear in real life. but Six doesn't know things a normal person wouldn't, and yet is not obtuse. She's perceptive, but realistically and not infallibly (Alice?).
I love that this book wasn't written around making two characters fall in desperate love with some plot thrown in afterwards. There is a very clear story being told, of Six as a person and figuring herself out, and of the events going on around her.
The author is really great at describing scenes without going over the top, and also without making it clear what will be important later. She has a gift for the creepy, and there are some particular lines that really gave me the creeps!! The supernatural elements are well thought out and avoid rote cliches so you don't know whats coming just because someone says 'ghost' or 'magic'. she has put her own unique ideas in here and built a world around them.
Going on right now to read the second book and I'm super excited to see what comes next!
March 10, 2018
Spooky and fun read
I loved this book!! It was a spooky page turner. Spooky, but not too scary. I can't wait for more books in this series.
I loved this book!! It was a spooky page turner. Spooky, but not too scary. I can't wait for more books in this series.
September 15, 2017
Very unusual writing style.
I am going to begin this review by saying that the book is not bad and that I am hooked! Then why the low rating? You might say, well, let's just say that I am one track mind kind of reader in a few words I'd like to not use a thesaurus/dictionary when I am reading...you come with your own conclusion if you decide to give this book a go. With that out of the way I am going to tell you a little about what this book is all about if you read the blurb (please do) it will tell you about Sixtine Soto and how she photographs old abandoned buildings and how she caught Rowan Hellebrand eye with her collage of pictures then all hell broke loose for me the writing just got weird and very strange this author used so many words to describe one action or just a mere thought. Just an example: "Sixtine was fresh from the beauty of Hellebrand’s pale yellow colonial style office and her eye was getting used to the parallelism." Oook! For the life of me I couldn't understand that sentence. What in the Sam Houston is this author trying to say? And there is more of that through out this book not just sentences, entire paragraphs of this weird stuff. Don't get me wrong overall the premise of this book is fantastic, if you are willing to wave away the strange writing style, I promise that you will enjoy this book very much. I really like Sixtine but, Rowan is not my cup of tea, maybe he grows in the next installment however, he is not hero material in my view. Rowan is arrogant, snobby, mean, and just not right for Sixtine. There's not much romance in this book which I am very impressed the author did a really good job blending in the action, with suspense and, all the emotions that come with a young adult novel. There many facets to this book and I would recommend it to my friends and family.
My True rating is: 3.9 stars almost 4 but not quite.
I am going to begin this review by saying that the book is not bad and that I am hooked! Then why the low rating? You might say, well, let's just say that I am one track mind kind of reader in a few words I'd like to not use a thesaurus/dictionary when I am reading...you come with your own conclusion if you decide to give this book a go. With that out of the way I am going to tell you a little about what this book is all about if you read the blurb (please do) it will tell you about Sixtine Soto and how she photographs old abandoned buildings and how she caught Rowan Hellebrand eye with her collage of pictures then all hell broke loose for me the writing just got weird and very strange this author used so many words to describe one action or just a mere thought. Just an example: "Sixtine was fresh from the beauty of Hellebrand’s pale yellow colonial style office and her eye was getting used to the parallelism." Oook! For the life of me I couldn't understand that sentence. What in the Sam Houston is this author trying to say? And there is more of that through out this book not just sentences, entire paragraphs of this weird stuff. Don't get me wrong overall the premise of this book is fantastic, if you are willing to wave away the strange writing style, I promise that you will enjoy this book very much. I really like Sixtine but, Rowan is not my cup of tea, maybe he grows in the next installment however, he is not hero material in my view. Rowan is arrogant, snobby, mean, and just not right for Sixtine. There's not much romance in this book which I am very impressed the author did a really good job blending in the action, with suspense and, all the emotions that come with a young adult novel. There many facets to this book and I would recommend it to my friends and family.
My True rating is: 3.9 stars almost 4 but not quite.
April 17, 2016
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I enjoyed this book immensely. Wish she would write a sequel to it. What an exciting life that young girl had.
I enjoyed this book immensely. Wish she would write a sequel to it. What an exciting life that young girl had.
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