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What's Done in the Dark
Cryptozoologist Ada Montgomery searches the mountains for two things: her missing brother and the kind of cryptids that’ll make her famous. Sasquatch, Ozark Howler, Snarly Yow… She’s got evidence they’re out there. She believes in evolution and science – definitely not magic. Until a vampire saves her life.
He hands her an unbelievable bill: cure his little daylight = ‘go poof’ problem or pay the price. Her scientific genius can help him. His supernatural abilities can find her brother. If they help each other, everybody wins. Right?
Except more than just UV rays stand in her way.
Werewolves with a grudge stalk her. Cryptids show up at her cabin and make themselves at home. And the vampire blood she took to stay focused? Turns out it’s addictive.
A supernatural war threatens to erupt in the dark, and she’s smack in the middle of it. Ada will have to save everyone to save herself, and the full moon approaches. Well, lesson learned: bargaining with a vampire devil means there’ll be hell to pay.
He hands her an unbelievable bill: cure his little daylight = ‘go poof’ problem or pay the price. Her scientific genius can help him. His supernatural abilities can find her brother. If they help each other, everybody wins. Right?
Except more than just UV rays stand in her way.
Werewolves with a grudge stalk her. Cryptids show up at her cabin and make themselves at home. And the vampire blood she took to stay focused? Turns out it’s addictive.
A supernatural war threatens to erupt in the dark, and she’s smack in the middle of it. Ada will have to save everyone to save herself, and the full moon approaches. Well, lesson learned: bargaining with a vampire devil means there’ll be hell to pay.
- GenresUrban FantasyFantasy
480 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 22, 2020
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February 25, 2021I tried for days to read this book. It had an incredibly strong pull at the beginning: great story hook, a heroine that seemed both strong and human in her failings. A new idea in both plot and world building. And then it crushed down miserably. The heroine reveals herself totally lacking any scruples AND gets so stupid that TSTL is way too gentle, her only idea is spreading metaphorically her legs. She adds cretin on top of stupid.
And I realised I was cringing with disgust and had to stop after a page. So I decided that harming myself for a book made me stupid too.
And I realised I was cringing with disgust and had to stop after a page. So I decided that harming myself for a book made me stupid too.
December 27, 2021
The story sounded like it might be a cute read. Unfortunately, it was one of those stories that took forever to get going and it never lead to anything. We only get Ada’s POV and I have never read so many colloquialisms in one story before. I think it was supposed to come off as quirkish and cute it just got annoying after a while. She would act worldly one minute and like a hormonal teenage girl the next. Her superiority complex got old really fast. The author constantly telling us how smart she was just got wearing after a while.
Ada is looking for her brother who’s been missing for ten years out in the woods. She’s funding it by looking for Sasquatch or other creatures of that nature. When she runs into Dragomir the vampire and he presents her with a chance to find her brother she jumps at it. Now she gets the best of both worlds, the chance to use her big brain and find her brother…win, win for everyone.
Most of this story is listening to Ada’s non-stop inner monologues. Then we throw in Archer and his group and teases of a possible love interest but it was just more smoke and mirrors along with so many other things happening in the book. Lots of build ups that dead-ended into nothingness. Plus, the ending just fizzled I mean after slogging through that much filler inner monologue the least you could do was give us a worthwhile ending.
I received an ARC and I am leaving a voluntary review.
Ada is looking for her brother who’s been missing for ten years out in the woods. She’s funding it by looking for Sasquatch or other creatures of that nature. When she runs into Dragomir the vampire and he presents her with a chance to find her brother she jumps at it. Now she gets the best of both worlds, the chance to use her big brain and find her brother…win, win for everyone.
Most of this story is listening to Ada’s non-stop inner monologues. Then we throw in Archer and his group and teases of a possible love interest but it was just more smoke and mirrors along with so many other things happening in the book. Lots of build ups that dead-ended into nothingness. Plus, the ending just fizzled I mean after slogging through that much filler inner monologue the least you could do was give us a worthwhile ending.
I received an ARC and I am leaving a voluntary review.
February 19, 2021
Good start
This was an interesting premise for a story. I like the main character,Ada, and would enjoy reading more. The author always writes great dialogue. I didn’t like all the repetitive internal dialogue and angst.
This was an interesting premise for a story. I like the main character,Ada, and would enjoy reading more. The author always writes great dialogue. I didn’t like all the repetitive internal dialogue and angst.
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