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The Faerie Files #1
Wiretaps & Whiskers
Buffy meets X-Files in this kickass Urban Fantasy with a slow burn romance.
Got a faerie problem? I’m your girl.
Magic gone awry? Not a problem.
But when kids go missing and the search comes up dry, my boss decides I need a partner.
The pain in the ass kind.
Now I have a problem.
As a field agent in the FBI's ultra-elite Occult Crimes Division...aka the OCD, it’s my job to investigate cases of the magical variety.
I’m the best at it, but it seems my employer doesn’t share my confidence when he pairs me up with the bureau's newest golden boy. Turns out he's the biggest tool I've ever met.
Logan Hawthorne.
Arrogant. Attractive as hell.
Oh yeah—and human.
I don't have time to teach this smug & straight-laced suit about the shadow realm of faerie that exists below our feet. I've got a list of missing kids a mile long and no time to waste in finding the creature who's snatching them.
Now if only there was an explanation for this talking cat...
The Faerie Files is purrr-fect for readers who enjoy enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, or forbidden romance. And cats. If you're not a cat person, you WILL be after reading this series! Ideal for fans of Annette Marie, McKenzie Hunter, Deborah Wilde.
Got a faerie problem? I’m your girl.
Magic gone awry? Not a problem.
But when kids go missing and the search comes up dry, my boss decides I need a partner.
The pain in the ass kind.
Now I have a problem.
As a field agent in the FBI's ultra-elite Occult Crimes Division...aka the OCD, it’s my job to investigate cases of the magical variety.
I’m the best at it, but it seems my employer doesn’t share my confidence when he pairs me up with the bureau's newest golden boy. Turns out he's the biggest tool I've ever met.
Logan Hawthorne.
Arrogant. Attractive as hell.
Oh yeah—and human.
I don't have time to teach this smug & straight-laced suit about the shadow realm of faerie that exists below our feet. I've got a list of missing kids a mile long and no time to waste in finding the creature who's snatching them.
Now if only there was an explanation for this talking cat...
The Faerie Files is purrr-fect for readers who enjoy enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, or forbidden romance. And cats. If you're not a cat person, you WILL be after reading this series! Ideal for fans of Annette Marie, McKenzie Hunter, Deborah Wilde.
410 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 24, 2021
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Emigh Cannaday
20 books321 followersEmigh Cannaday lives in Wisconsin with her rock star/winemaker husband and a pack of rambunctious Welsh Corgis. She grew up drawing and painting but now uses words to illustrate her elaborate daydreams. When she’s not hoarding houseplants or collecting corgis, she spends her free time testing out new recipes on her friends & family.
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April 8, 2023
Wiretaps & Whiskers
is book one in the The Faerie Files by Emigh Cannaday.
I wanted to like Wiretaps & Whiskers, but unfortunately this book didn't work for me. I ended up DNF'ing at 37%
I had trouble getting into the plot, world, and characters. Nothing captured my attention.
Our leads, Elena and Logan, bicker constantly. The bickering got to be childish. As for the individual characters nothing stood out about them. Logan in the begging makes a big deal about not believing in magic when he's transferred into the OCD. The devision doesn't do anything to inform him and once on a case with Elena she gives in and shows him some magic to open his eyes. When this happens he's like ok. Just too quick to accept. Then we have Elena who is suppose to be the best agent to deal with the supernaturals, but she doesn't show any great talents or anything really special to make her the best for the job. Last, the whole plot and set up was't working for me.
Wiretaps & Whiskers was not the book for me. If the blurb intrigues you, I urge you to give it a shot. Just because it did not work for me does not mean it won’t for you.
Rated: DNF
I wanted to like Wiretaps & Whiskers, but unfortunately this book didn't work for me. I ended up DNF'ing at 37%
I had trouble getting into the plot, world, and characters. Nothing captured my attention.
Our leads, Elena and Logan, bicker constantly. The bickering got to be childish. As for the individual characters nothing stood out about them. Logan in the begging makes a big deal about not believing in magic when he's transferred into the OCD. The devision doesn't do anything to inform him and once on a case with Elena she gives in and shows him some magic to open his eyes. When this happens he's like ok. Just too quick to accept. Then we have Elena who is suppose to be the best agent to deal with the supernaturals, but she doesn't show any great talents or anything really special to make her the best for the job. Last, the whole plot and set up was't working for me.
Wiretaps & Whiskers was not the book for me. If the blurb intrigues you, I urge you to give it a shot. Just because it did not work for me does not mean it won’t for you.
Rated: DNF
September 9, 2021
Like the X-Files, but HOTTER.
The characters: Ok, so imagine two FBI agents. One is experienced in the Occult Crimes Division and the other is newly promoted as a Special Agent to that very division, but absolutely rejects the paranormal, and assigned as the former's partner. There you have Elena and Logan. They start off going at each other like a cat and dog. Honestly, I completely blame Elena and her lack of professionalism and straight up cattiness from the get go, but I digress. These two are totally secretly hot for each other, and I 🚢 it like Scully and Moulder.
The side characters were great! Especially the cats!
The story: was completely pulled in by the assignment. Hundreds of children disappearing before their parent's very eyes. Not just at the epicenter of the Rocky Mountains in Tennessee, but the epidemic is slowly spreading across the country. The only lead is the statement from an 8 year old that happened to make it back alive. It's completely chilling and lands Elena and Logan on the case.
This adventure was a trip!!! I was completely horrified at some points and laughed out loud during others! I recommend to lovers of the fae, and Paranormal UF Romance enthusiasts. (This'll be a slow-burn as far as heat level goes.)
Enjoy!
The characters: Ok, so imagine two FBI agents. One is experienced in the Occult Crimes Division and the other is newly promoted as a Special Agent to that very division, but absolutely rejects the paranormal, and assigned as the former's partner. There you have Elena and Logan. They start off going at each other like a cat and dog. Honestly, I completely blame Elena and her lack of professionalism and straight up cattiness from the get go, but I digress. These two are totally secretly hot for each other, and I 🚢 it like Scully and Moulder.
The side characters were great! Especially the cats!
The story: was completely pulled in by the assignment. Hundreds of children disappearing before their parent's very eyes. Not just at the epicenter of the Rocky Mountains in Tennessee, but the epidemic is slowly spreading across the country. The only lead is the statement from an 8 year old that happened to make it back alive. It's completely chilling and lands Elena and Logan on the case.
This adventure was a trip!!! I was completely horrified at some points and laughed out loud during others! I recommend to lovers of the fae, and Paranormal UF Romance enthusiasts. (This'll be a slow-burn as far as heat level goes.)
Enjoy!
February 24, 2021
I don’t know what to say about this one, more than that I sadly did not have that great of an time reading this. While there wasn’t anything necessarily bad with the writing and storytelling in general there just wasn’t anything in it, in either plot or characters, that pulled me in.
I liked the characters in the beginning, the way they were presented and they way they were at each other’s throats immediately. With such different personalities stuck with each other I expected a lot of drama and fights to encore between them, as well as the slow burn romance I was promised. While there were some heated moments between the two of them, both the sweet and the tense, there were actually and sadly very little of both those fights and romance I had hoped for. So much so that I feel that it is misleading in calling this a slow burn romance. If you ask me this wasn’t a romance at all but two colleagues bickering a bit, but quickly getting past it and becoming friends. The romance label can be removed completely from this since the only indication of a romance was that they at one scene felt a sexual attraction. That was it.
What was the most confusing to me was the plot. It wasn’t that it was too complex or hard to follow, but it felt like the plot kept changing like it was indecisive on what it wanted to be about. Or rather what the main genre of the story wanted to be. It started of as a criminal investigation with a paranormal twist, which was well enough, but throughout the book it jumped from that to a fairy tale back and forth without rhyme or reason. This wouldn’t necessarily be problematic, but the way it was presented and written, well it just didn’t clash. Mainly because the fairy tale aspect felt directed to a much younger audience than the detective investigation aspect did.
It kind of felt like half the book was written for adults while the other half was meant for children. The whole fairy tale aspect was so black and white with a villain that was evil “just because” and was defeated with a rhyme she got through a cryptic loved one, said by the main characters while holding hands. It hurt the detective part of the story since it was left very basic and with no deep twists that you would expect from that type of genre. Everything was solved with magic which just felt underwhelming in the end.
I hate to be critical, but I can’t give this book more than three stars. It had a good idea behind it and some scenes I enjoyed, but it needed a more planned plot and a more evolved development for the relationship between the main characters. Hopefully the next book will have this.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
I liked the characters in the beginning, the way they were presented and they way they were at each other’s throats immediately. With such different personalities stuck with each other I expected a lot of drama and fights to encore between them, as well as the slow burn romance I was promised. While there were some heated moments between the two of them, both the sweet and the tense, there were actually and sadly very little of both those fights and romance I had hoped for. So much so that I feel that it is misleading in calling this a slow burn romance. If you ask me this wasn’t a romance at all but two colleagues bickering a bit, but quickly getting past it and becoming friends. The romance label can be removed completely from this since the only indication of a romance was that they at one scene felt a sexual attraction. That was it.
What was the most confusing to me was the plot. It wasn’t that it was too complex or hard to follow, but it felt like the plot kept changing like it was indecisive on what it wanted to be about. Or rather what the main genre of the story wanted to be. It started of as a criminal investigation with a paranormal twist, which was well enough, but throughout the book it jumped from that to a fairy tale back and forth without rhyme or reason. This wouldn’t necessarily be problematic, but the way it was presented and written, well it just didn’t clash. Mainly because the fairy tale aspect felt directed to a much younger audience than the detective investigation aspect did.
It kind of felt like half the book was written for adults while the other half was meant for children. The whole fairy tale aspect was so black and white with a villain that was evil “just because” and was defeated with a rhyme she got through a cryptic loved one, said by the main characters while holding hands. It hurt the detective part of the story since it was left very basic and with no deep twists that you would expect from that type of genre. Everything was solved with magic which just felt underwhelming in the end.
I hate to be critical, but I can’t give this book more than three stars. It had a good idea behind it and some scenes I enjoyed, but it needed a more planned plot and a more evolved development for the relationship between the main characters. Hopefully the next book will have this.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
September 14, 2022
Meh. I had a really hard time keeping my attention on this, honestly.
The lead male (Logan) was an enormous douchebag in the beginning - the worst kind of stereotypical privileged white asshole who thinks he's better than everyone else. He took it way too far, being an absolute dick to the lead female (Elena) for no reason right off the bat.
At first, I appreciated that Elena gave it right back to him, but then she became completely lame. Like in her POV, she was feeling bad about being mean to him (while he was still being a dick to her, constantly). And when he said something insanely across-the-line nasty, she cried and became a total limp dishrag. Honestly, she should have let his self-absorbed ass waltz through this case cloaked in his disbelief, and hopefully it would have killed him.
From that bullshit weak moment onwards, Elena fell apart as a character to me. Like, she was suddenly a tentative chick with the emotional maturity of a pre-teen...and we're supposed to believe she's the badass agent who has dealt with - and solved - dozens of these cases. I don't buy it.
I'm giving it 3 stars because I finished and I didn't hate it. But I'm really unsure whether I'll continue the series.
The lead male (Logan) was an enormous douchebag in the beginning - the worst kind of stereotypical privileged white asshole who thinks he's better than everyone else. He took it way too far, being an absolute dick to the lead female (Elena) for no reason right off the bat.
At first, I appreciated that Elena gave it right back to him, but then she became completely lame. Like in her POV, she was feeling bad about being mean to him (while he was still being a dick to her, constantly). And when he said something insanely across-the-line nasty, she cried and became a total limp dishrag. Honestly, she should have let his self-absorbed ass waltz through this case cloaked in his disbelief, and hopefully it would have killed him.
From that bullshit weak moment onwards, Elena fell apart as a character to me. Like, she was suddenly a tentative chick with the emotional maturity of a pre-teen...and we're supposed to believe she's the badass agent who has dealt with - and solved - dozens of these cases. I don't buy it.
I'm giving it 3 stars because I finished and I didn't hate it. But I'm really unsure whether I'll continue the series.
September 12, 2021
3.5
bickering partners + supernatural baddies
bickering partners + supernatural baddies
November 8, 2021
This was a did not finish for me. I didn't really like either of the characters and I didn't like the story.
First the characters, they are both spoiled and quite frankly their chemistry and banter comes across as 3 year olds bickering. I typically like the enemies to lover trope but not whatever this was. They are behaving childishly although she had a fair point, he was a rookie that didn't even believe in the supernatural, why was he tapped to be one half of a team chasing serial kidnappers of kids.
That brings us to the second problem, the story. It isn't that the story had holes it is that it couldn't decide what the story was. I just didn't care for any of it.
Sorry this was not my cup of tea but I did maker it through 65% before deciding.
First the characters, they are both spoiled and quite frankly their chemistry and banter comes across as 3 year olds bickering. I typically like the enemies to lover trope but not whatever this was. They are behaving childishly although she had a fair point, he was a rookie that didn't even believe in the supernatural, why was he tapped to be one half of a team chasing serial kidnappers of kids.
That brings us to the second problem, the story. It isn't that the story had holes it is that it couldn't decide what the story was. I just didn't care for any of it.
Sorry this was not my cup of tea but I did maker it through 65% before deciding.
March 10, 2025
This one was more of a 3.5 rounded up to a 4. For quite a while it was a 2-: star but the later part of the book redeemed itself. The two main characters were just acting like juveniles rather than career adults. However, the story redeemed itself and Sylvia and Lafayette (the cat) were welcome additions. Elena is a fae living as a human and working in an occult section of the FBI. She’s given a new partner, Agent Harthowe, an avowed skeptic who’s on board after dumping his cheating fiancé. The book, to me, didn’t work at first until it did. Overall it was not a bad read, it was slow in places but picked up towards the end.
March 8, 2021
2 1/2 stars. Pretty much middle of the road for me. There's nothing wrong with it but nothing that stood out fantastically either (well, I liked the cats).
A few things annoyed me a bit. Logan makes a big deal about not believing in magic, fae, etc. so why didn't they show him something right away that would prove it to him. Just telling him isn't going to convince him. Finally Elena shows him something and he accepts it pretty easily. I would think he would have had a bigger reaction. Elena is suppose to be the best agent dealing with the supernatural but she doesn't show any great talent as an agent. In fact, she's given tips in a dream how to stop the evil.
I really liked the cats though. As the story progressed, I liked how Elena and Logan interacted and became a team.
A few things annoyed me a bit. Logan makes a big deal about not believing in magic, fae, etc. so why didn't they show him something right away that would prove it to him. Just telling him isn't going to convince him. Finally Elena shows him something and he accepts it pretty easily. I would think he would have had a bigger reaction. Elena is suppose to be the best agent dealing with the supernatural but she doesn't show any great talent as an agent. In fact, she's given tips in a dream how to stop the evil.
I really liked the cats though. As the story progressed, I liked how Elena and Logan interacted and became a team.
February 25, 2021
A fun, intriguing and lighthearted story. Loved the characters and everything about them. I can’t wait for the next one.
April 1, 2022
Starting with discussions of someone being on a warpath is unfortunate as the term is racist against Indigenous People. Radical Copyeditor notes " this expression is rooted in the stereotype of Indigenous Peoples as violent, warring “savages” that need to be defended against." Just a term all of us need to take out of our vocabulary.
Everything else though was really sweet and amazing. Love the sass and the cats and the slow burn
Everything else though was really sweet and amazing. Love the sass and the cats and the slow burn
April 20, 2024
Interesting premise but fairly predictable for the storyline. I knew the bad guy by halfway through while the mains were blatantly ignoring the signs and then the ending was fairly jolting in its resolution.
Found the way the author made her fae to be fun though. Loved the play on myths showing their love for honey/sugar being used.
⭐️⭐️💫 (2.5 stars)
Found the way the author made her fae to be fun though. Loved the play on myths showing their love for honey/sugar being used.
⭐️⭐️💫 (2.5 stars)
November 3, 2021
Great book. Entertaining and interesting. I look forward to the next one.
May 18, 2022
entertaining urban fantasy series
This is an entertaining urban fantasy/mystery series. Great cast of characters and a fun storyline. Think urban fantasy/paranormal cozy mystery/X-Files. The OCD is the occult crime division of the FBI. It goes out investigates anything to do with paranormal Supernatural occult etc. investigations. Agent Rivera is their best agent and the expert. An FBI legacy agent is promoted to the unit. He has partnered with agent Rivera but he does not believe in anything and is a major skeptic. Soon he will have to decide one way or the other. As his partner agent Rivera is actually a member of the Fais a fairy who left the underworld known as the hollow to live on the earth above. Read on and follow the adventure of this entertaining new series. Very entertaining and looking forward to the next book in the series.
This is an entertaining urban fantasy/mystery series. Great cast of characters and a fun storyline. Think urban fantasy/paranormal cozy mystery/X-Files. The OCD is the occult crime division of the FBI. It goes out investigates anything to do with paranormal Supernatural occult etc. investigations. Agent Rivera is their best agent and the expert. An FBI legacy agent is promoted to the unit. He has partnered with agent Rivera but he does not believe in anything and is a major skeptic. Soon he will have to decide one way or the other. As his partner agent Rivera is actually a member of the Fais a fairy who left the underworld known as the hollow to live on the earth above. Read on and follow the adventure of this entertaining new series. Very entertaining and looking forward to the next book in the series.
August 7, 2021
This was fun and for once I do believe the characters dislike each other 😂
November 30, 2021
I stopped at 74%. This is a book that is good in theory, but suffers in execution. The author cannot seem to decide what personality she wants her characters to have. One one page, Elena is shaking and saying she just can't handle another case like her last one; on the next, she's saying it's not that bad, that these kind of cases are routine and don't rattle her much. The fighting at the beginning was just plain odd; it didn't make sense, particularly the stuff coming from such a tightly wound perfectionist like Logan. He is desperate to move forward professionally - he's not going to jeopardize it by being an ass to someone who clearly has his supervisor's ear and respect. What they fought over was so stupid too; it just made them both so unlikable. Even worse, however, was the resolution of their antagonism. Finally, as others mentioned, Elena doesn't seem to have any sort of special skills that make her such a great agent and Logan accepts everything far too quickly. I just couldn't keep going.
June 14, 2021
New from Emigh Cannaday this series has the potential to keep you on the edge of you seat. Elena and Logan both belong to a the OCD (love that name by the way). She’s a seasoned agent being recruited at a very young age and while he may have just been promoted toe special agent in the department, Logan doesn’t believe in the paranormal. But that’s all about the change, especially when a talking cat takes a liking to you. As yeh story unfold Elena finds that the disappearance of children is somehow linked to her pasts. And none of it is good.
Many secrets still need to be revealed but the few that have come to light are shocking and even a tad disturbing. But the dynamic between these two has me waiting on the next book. I hope the wait isn’t too long.
Advanced review copy provided for voluntary review consideration
Many secrets still need to be revealed but the few that have come to light are shocking and even a tad disturbing. But the dynamic between these two has me waiting on the next book. I hope the wait isn’t too long.
Advanced review copy provided for voluntary review consideration
July 29, 2023
Round down to a 2.5.
I got this as a sample on Kindle. I liked the sample well enough, so I got the book to read. And I mostly liked it. My biggest issues to this point (I am starting my review at ~2/3 through the book, because that's where I started having issues) come from the central dynamic of the 'enemies to lovers' trope at the heart of this thing. Enemies to lovers isn't inherently a problem to me, but in this book it has a couple of things I took issue with. There is a moment in the head-voice of the female MC, Elena, where she is thinking about 'at least the male MC character has a reason not to like *her*' and thinks she is just being a bitch about not liking him. But he's literally been worse to her than she has to him. He treats her like she is either an incredibly incompetent/unscrupulous FBI agent or an incredibly competent scam artist. And maybe both. He talks down to her at practically every turn for the beginning of this book. Why did she act like she *didn't* have a reason to dislike him? He's been pretty dislikeable actually. Certainly to the point in the book at which she is thinking that.
The other thing I take issue with, is a good enemies to lovers thing has to get the pacing right. And this... doesn't. The pacing of the... escalation actually irritated me to the point where at the 62-63% mark this book suddenly became a chore that I will have to talk myself into picking back up. And it gets a little worse after that, for me. Elena went from "I hate you" to "gimme that D" in record time. And I don't appreciate that it feels fairly one sided that way.
Other critiques that aren't about enemies to lovers: at 68%, Elena says something that irks me. Normally stuff like this book is placed in an alternate reality of our world. Or even in our world, but just with more going on than the average person knows about. If that isn't the case, it is usually outlined pretty clearly. This book seems to be set in our world, with supernatural elements most people don't know about happening in the background. So when Elena says "There's only a handful of religious scholars who've heard of him" about Moloch I audibly huffed in irritation. Hard for something featured in some very famous films and television shows to be unheard of to all but a handful of religious scholars. If you look up how he is referred to in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, or Sleepy Hollow, you will see that not only are they talking about the same entity, but it does the same stuff. You can even take the portrayal of it in a movie that was apparently the first ever movie shown at the White House, 1914 silent film Cabiria. Same dude. And there are more portrayals than just those, as well. Hardly a secret entity that only the rarest and most in-the-know person will have barely heard of...
And after a few days of breaking to read other books, I finally came back to this one, just before the 75% mark. It started to collect issues at that point. 1) There's a *heavily* telegraphed twist. 2) Said twist didn't make any sense to actually happen other than to be a "surprise". It makes the book worse for having happened imo. And, the more you think about it, the less sense it makes for it to have happened, logically and logistically. 3) There's a moment late where Elena is doing something magically important. And being the "expert" that this book has insisted she is in such things, why are Hawthorne and Sylvia the ones reminding her how important it is to not stop the process before finishing it? Isn't that literally the job description for her that she should be more aware of it than anyone? 4) I felt like there was much more promised on the book's Amazon listing/ad for 'best book cat'. Lafayette wasn't bad, but he wasn't given nearly enough opportunity to be 'best cat' in this installment. And anyone who thinks this is the height of a cat in fiction, has never read Garth Nix's Sabriel. Though maybe he gets more opportunity in later installments?
I got this as a sample on Kindle. I liked the sample well enough, so I got the book to read. And I mostly liked it. My biggest issues to this point (I am starting my review at ~2/3 through the book, because that's where I started having issues) come from the central dynamic of the 'enemies to lovers' trope at the heart of this thing. Enemies to lovers isn't inherently a problem to me, but in this book it has a couple of things I took issue with. There is a moment in the head-voice of the female MC, Elena, where she is thinking about 'at least the male MC character has a reason not to like *her*' and thinks she is just being a bitch about not liking him. But he's literally been worse to her than she has to him. He treats her like she is either an incredibly incompetent/unscrupulous FBI agent or an incredibly competent scam artist. And maybe both. He talks down to her at practically every turn for the beginning of this book. Why did she act like she *didn't* have a reason to dislike him? He's been pretty dislikeable actually. Certainly to the point in the book at which she is thinking that.
The other thing I take issue with, is a good enemies to lovers thing has to get the pacing right. And this... doesn't. The pacing of the... escalation actually irritated me to the point where at the 62-63% mark this book suddenly became a chore that I will have to talk myself into picking back up. And it gets a little worse after that, for me. Elena went from "I hate you" to "gimme that D" in record time. And I don't appreciate that it feels fairly one sided that way.
Other critiques that aren't about enemies to lovers: at 68%, Elena says something that irks me. Normally stuff like this book is placed in an alternate reality of our world. Or even in our world, but just with more going on than the average person knows about. If that isn't the case, it is usually outlined pretty clearly. This book seems to be set in our world, with supernatural elements most people don't know about happening in the background. So when Elena says "There's only a handful of religious scholars who've heard of him" about Moloch I audibly huffed in irritation. Hard for something featured in some very famous films and television shows to be unheard of to all but a handful of religious scholars. If you look up how he is referred to in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, or Sleepy Hollow, you will see that not only are they talking about the same entity, but it does the same stuff. You can even take the portrayal of it in a movie that was apparently the first ever movie shown at the White House, 1914 silent film Cabiria. Same dude. And there are more portrayals than just those, as well. Hardly a secret entity that only the rarest and most in-the-know person will have barely heard of...
And after a few days of breaking to read other books, I finally came back to this one, just before the 75% mark. It started to collect issues at that point. 1) There's a *heavily* telegraphed twist. 2) Said twist didn't make any sense to actually happen other than to be a "surprise". It makes the book worse for having happened imo. And, the more you think about it, the less sense it makes for it to have happened, logically and logistically. 3) There's a moment late where Elena is doing something magically important. And being the "expert" that this book has insisted she is in such things, why are Hawthorne and Sylvia the ones reminding her how important it is to not stop the process before finishing it? Isn't that literally the job description for her that she should be more aware of it than anyone? 4) I felt like there was much more promised on the book's Amazon listing/ad for 'best book cat'. Lafayette wasn't bad, but he wasn't given nearly enough opportunity to be 'best cat' in this installment. And anyone who thinks this is the height of a cat in fiction, has never read Garth Nix's Sabriel. Though maybe he gets more opportunity in later installments?
July 30, 2021
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The plotline for Wiretaps & Whiskers was interesting. Elena is an FBI field agent with the Occult Crimes Division (also called the OCD). She is briefed on a case that centers around hundreds of missing children in the Smokey Mountains. Her boss also tells her that she is getting a new partner: Logan. Logan is on the fast track to becoming upper management in the FBI, so he is confused when he is placed in the OCD and partnered with Elena. He is also a non-believer in everything paranormal, and it is up to Elena to clue him in fast. Because what is happening with those kids is amping up. But Elena is also hiding a huge secret of her own. Can she solve the case, make Logan a believer, and keep her secret?
Wiretaps & Whiskers is the first book in The Faerie Files series. Usually, I would say it can or can’t be read as a standalone book. But, seeing that it is the first book in the series, I will not do that.
The plotline for Wiretaps & Whiskers was fast-moving. There was some slight lag in the middle of the book. It didn’t affect the book’s pacing at all; instead, it gave me a minute to breathe and digest everything that happened up to that point. Then it took back off and kept up the fast pace until the end of the book.
I liked Elena but thought she was a little prickly at the beginning of the book. But, as the story progressed, her prickliness disappeared, and her true personality started to show. I also liked that she didn’t immediately tell Logan what she was. She told him when she felt he could handle it.
I liked Logan, and I felt terrible for him. I couldn’t imagine coming home and finding my boyfriend with someone 50 years older than him. I felt that was why he came across the way he did when he first met Elena. He did adapt pretty well once he was given a chance to absorb everything. In the end, he was there for and supporting Elena when she took down the bad guy. He also handled Lafayette pretty well….lol.
The author wrote the storyline with the missing children very well. She did a great job of keeping who was behind the disappearances until the last chapter. When that was revealed, it was exposed as a twist, and I couldn’t believe who it was!! Talk about the last person I thought it would be!!!
The storyline with Elena and her background was terrific also. I liked that the author let bits and pieces of who she was through. Of course, her being a Faery was the most obvious thing. The other stuff (like her parents and how she came to Earth) dragged out.
I loved the secondary characters in the book too. They were all written in such a way that you couldn’t help but love them.
There was no romance in Wiretaps & Whiskers. Instead, there were hints of an attraction between Logan and Elena. I liked that because Logan was getting over his ex, and Elena didn’t want a relationship (she did want to have sex with him, though). And the chemistry between them. OMG, I had to fan myself because it was that intense!!
The end of Wiretaps & Whiskers was action-packed. The author did a great job of ending most of the storylines in the book. But she also left open enough for book 2.
I would recommend Wiretaps & Whiskers for anyone over the age of 21. There is mild violence. There is mild language. There are sexual innuendos but no sex.
The plotline for Wiretaps & Whiskers was interesting. Elena is an FBI field agent with the Occult Crimes Division (also called the OCD). She is briefed on a case that centers around hundreds of missing children in the Smokey Mountains. Her boss also tells her that she is getting a new partner: Logan. Logan is on the fast track to becoming upper management in the FBI, so he is confused when he is placed in the OCD and partnered with Elena. He is also a non-believer in everything paranormal, and it is up to Elena to clue him in fast. Because what is happening with those kids is amping up. But Elena is also hiding a huge secret of her own. Can she solve the case, make Logan a believer, and keep her secret?
Wiretaps & Whiskers is the first book in The Faerie Files series. Usually, I would say it can or can’t be read as a standalone book. But, seeing that it is the first book in the series, I will not do that.
The plotline for Wiretaps & Whiskers was fast-moving. There was some slight lag in the middle of the book. It didn’t affect the book’s pacing at all; instead, it gave me a minute to breathe and digest everything that happened up to that point. Then it took back off and kept up the fast pace until the end of the book.
I liked Elena but thought she was a little prickly at the beginning of the book. But, as the story progressed, her prickliness disappeared, and her true personality started to show. I also liked that she didn’t immediately tell Logan what she was. She told him when she felt he could handle it.
I liked Logan, and I felt terrible for him. I couldn’t imagine coming home and finding my boyfriend with someone 50 years older than him. I felt that was why he came across the way he did when he first met Elena. He did adapt pretty well once he was given a chance to absorb everything. In the end, he was there for and supporting Elena when she took down the bad guy. He also handled Lafayette pretty well….lol.
The author wrote the storyline with the missing children very well. She did a great job of keeping who was behind the disappearances until the last chapter. When that was revealed, it was exposed as a twist, and I couldn’t believe who it was!! Talk about the last person I thought it would be!!!
The storyline with Elena and her background was terrific also. I liked that the author let bits and pieces of who she was through. Of course, her being a Faery was the most obvious thing. The other stuff (like her parents and how she came to Earth) dragged out.
I loved the secondary characters in the book too. They were all written in such a way that you couldn’t help but love them.
There was no romance in Wiretaps & Whiskers. Instead, there were hints of an attraction between Logan and Elena. I liked that because Logan was getting over his ex, and Elena didn’t want a relationship (she did want to have sex with him, though). And the chemistry between them. OMG, I had to fan myself because it was that intense!!
The end of Wiretaps & Whiskers was action-packed. The author did a great job of ending most of the storylines in the book. But she also left open enough for book 2.
I would recommend Wiretaps & Whiskers for anyone over the age of 21. There is mild violence. There is mild language. There are sexual innuendos but no sex.
September 5, 2022
There is a sort of antagonistic relationship between the two main characters which develops into the very obvious and inevitable romance in a kind of enemies-to-lovers-lite setup but the flip happens way too suddenly which leads to some stilted, unbelievable, and painfully cringeworthy dialogue.
One second they can't stand each other, the next they are all apologetic and nice to each other and suddenly they are attracted to each other like crazy.
The H is a skeptic that doesn't believe in magic of any kind but our h is fae. But she refuses to prove it to him for forever. I have seen setups like that which worked pretty well on the premise that the fae character just didn't care about the skeptic doubting her and couldn't be bothered to prove anything, but in this case, she is incredibly annoyed about it. Early on we don't know if she even could prove it, but later on, it becomes clear that she could have the whole time, but instead she whined constantly about him not taking her word for it. And it's not only her. Other people around them also treat his skepticism with an insulting amount of condescension despite anything supernatural clearly being a secret in this world. It's frankly painful to read.
But the main problem that overshadows this otherwise at least mediocre story is the inept writing.
The failure to implement "show, don't tell" is the biggest shortcoming here.
Everything is communicated through awkward dialogue like: "It hurts badly. I am in incredible pain." answered by something like "I am so worried about you. I can see that you are in pain." They don't curl, or gasp, or choke, or grit their teeth, or shudder, or moan. They say "I am in pain".
I admit this example might be a bit overexaggerated but it honestly reflects the writing competence.
The point is that, especially when trying to create dramatic scenes, the writing is simply very bad.
Furthermore, the writing lacks any subtlety. The author doesn't trust the reader to come to even the most blatantly obvious conclusions on their own and always has to painstakingly lay every little thing out so even someone with an IQ at room temperature could understand.
One second they can't stand each other, the next they are all apologetic and nice to each other and suddenly they are attracted to each other like crazy.
The H is a skeptic that doesn't believe in magic of any kind but our h is fae. But she refuses to prove it to him for forever. I have seen setups like that which worked pretty well on the premise that the fae character just didn't care about the skeptic doubting her and couldn't be bothered to prove anything, but in this case, she is incredibly annoyed about it. Early on we don't know if she even could prove it, but later on, it becomes clear that she could have the whole time, but instead she whined constantly about him not taking her word for it. And it's not only her. Other people around them also treat his skepticism with an insulting amount of condescension despite anything supernatural clearly being a secret in this world. It's frankly painful to read.
But the main problem that overshadows this otherwise at least mediocre story is the inept writing.
The failure to implement "show, don't tell" is the biggest shortcoming here.
Everything is communicated through awkward dialogue like: "It hurts badly. I am in incredible pain." answered by something like "I am so worried about you. I can see that you are in pain." They don't curl, or gasp, or choke, or grit their teeth, or shudder, or moan. They say "I am in pain".
I admit this example might be a bit overexaggerated but it honestly reflects the writing competence.
The point is that, especially when trying to create dramatic scenes, the writing is simply very bad.
Furthermore, the writing lacks any subtlety. The author doesn't trust the reader to come to even the most blatantly obvious conclusions on their own and always has to painstakingly lay every little thing out so even someone with an IQ at room temperature could understand.
January 10, 2022
I enjoyed this book. The characters were fun and interesting. The plot however was a lot darker then I thought it would be (shame on me for not really reading the description, if I’d known missing kids were involved I probably would have skipped it). That being said it’s not why I only have this book 3 stars. It came down to the plot. A plot that had holes in it for me and things that didn’t add up or make much sense. To start with Logan came off as a complete and utter dick at the beginning. He’s this structured, by the book cop who calls Elena a chick at the beginning. Which is completely with odds the our first introduction to him as being a considerate, loving mommas boy. No way does a mommas boy talk down to a woman like that. Why on earth would they throw this type of man into the FBI Occult division and expect him not to believe any of it? No sense. No sense at all. Then there’s the cats who I don’t really understand why they made such an impact that the book is partially named for them. Their “role” in the plot was odd…… honestly don’t have much to say about that except I don’t think their role constituted a big enough impact to title the book after them.
Then we get down to the bad guy. Well 2 actually. I don’t want to go into too much detail and completely ruin the ending but it had so many freaking holes in it!!! Yes I get there magic, yes I understand the kids were taken by magical creatures. What I don’t understand is how the Queen (you learn she’s a bad guy pretty fast. Is able to come to the human world herself or how the 2nd bad guy is even connected with her. There was no explanation, no reason. It was like these 2 characters had the same end goal AT THE SAME TIME without any reason. None. Just, well look at that, a second bad guy to contend with.
I debated reading the second book. I mean I did enjoy this one but so many of the reviews for the second book talk about plot issues I just can’t bring myself to do it….
Then we get down to the bad guy. Well 2 actually. I don’t want to go into too much detail and completely ruin the ending but it had so many freaking holes in it!!! Yes I get there magic, yes I understand the kids were taken by magical creatures. What I don’t understand is how the Queen (you learn she’s a bad guy pretty fast. Is able to come to the human world herself or how the 2nd bad guy is even connected with her. There was no explanation, no reason. It was like these 2 characters had the same end goal AT THE SAME TIME without any reason. None. Just, well look at that, a second bad guy to contend with.
I debated reading the second book. I mean I did enjoy this one but so many of the reviews for the second book talk about plot issues I just can’t bring myself to do it….
March 2, 2021
Wiretaps & Whiskers by Emigh Cannaday
You know when you’re a serial reader and sometimes you can't remember a book that you've read after reading another book or two? Let me just say I've read five or um seven books since reading Wiretaps & Whiskers and I totally remember the entire story, it's that good!
You have a Fairy, Elana Rivera, working for the FBI in their Occult Crime Division (I mean come on OCD! How can you not pick up this book just because of that?!) who doesn't conform to their, wait for it, OCD standards and regulations because they know they need her not only for her badassery (is that a word, if not it should be) but her skills and magic that she possess because she is a fairy living in the human world where humans don't know there supernatural really exists. In comes a newly minted Senior Special Agent, Logan Hawthorne, who toes the company line and for his first assignment is teamed up with Elana; and Agent Rivera and the FNG Hawthorne clash like you would expect.
Being new to the OCD and anything supernatural, Hawthorne has a hard time believing that the hundreds of children that have disappeared in a blink of an eye has anything to do with anything other than a human snatching kids away. The local Sheriff and Agent Rivera try to tell him otherwise. Baptism by fire is what he gets on this case. Everything that a FBI superstar expects is flipped upside-down and backwards, including the treehouse accommodations that he is forced to endure with the super hot fairy. Rivera is also forced into trusting a human with her secret and together face her past and form a trusting friendship.
I honestly like Wiretaps & Whiskers better than any of Emigh’s other books, and will be a trilogy that I will read multiple times.
You know when you’re a serial reader and sometimes you can't remember a book that you've read after reading another book or two? Let me just say I've read five or um seven books since reading Wiretaps & Whiskers and I totally remember the entire story, it's that good!
You have a Fairy, Elana Rivera, working for the FBI in their Occult Crime Division (I mean come on OCD! How can you not pick up this book just because of that?!) who doesn't conform to their, wait for it, OCD standards and regulations because they know they need her not only for her badassery (is that a word, if not it should be) but her skills and magic that she possess because she is a fairy living in the human world where humans don't know there supernatural really exists. In comes a newly minted Senior Special Agent, Logan Hawthorne, who toes the company line and for his first assignment is teamed up with Elana; and Agent Rivera and the FNG Hawthorne clash like you would expect.
Being new to the OCD and anything supernatural, Hawthorne has a hard time believing that the hundreds of children that have disappeared in a blink of an eye has anything to do with anything other than a human snatching kids away. The local Sheriff and Agent Rivera try to tell him otherwise. Baptism by fire is what he gets on this case. Everything that a FBI superstar expects is flipped upside-down and backwards, including the treehouse accommodations that he is forced to endure with the super hot fairy. Rivera is also forced into trusting a human with her secret and together face her past and form a trusting friendship.
I honestly like Wiretaps & Whiskers better than any of Emigh’s other books, and will be a trilogy that I will read multiple times.
March 13, 2021
I loved this book. The characters, the plot and the writing are great.
This story is from the main characters POV. Logan and Elena. They’re forced to be partners in a special department of FBI that investigates supernatural and paranormal crimes and they couldn’t be more different. Logan is human and doesn’t belief in anything like that only facts and science. He’s extremely tidy, disciplined and of course handsome, strong and smart. And Elena is a fae in disguise, quite messy and used to treat with weird creatures and facts.
Definitely they collide in their first meeting. But as long as they start working together and knowing more about each other they start to respect and care for each other. This is a slow burn romance with the right pace and feeling just start showing up while their investigation is going on. I did like their dynamic a lot. Their interaction and evolution is believable and entertaining.
The story is is interesting and with a good mix of mysteries, adventures, supernatural revelations and funny situations. And the writing is pretty good. Everything flows perfectly and with sense so it’s a very enjoyable experience.
My only but would be the ending. I was expecting something bigger, more surprising and complicated and ended up being quite simple. Not a very complicated solution for the case. But other than that I had a great time reading Wiretaps & Whiskers.I totally recommend it.
This story is from the main characters POV. Logan and Elena. They’re forced to be partners in a special department of FBI that investigates supernatural and paranormal crimes and they couldn’t be more different. Logan is human and doesn’t belief in anything like that only facts and science. He’s extremely tidy, disciplined and of course handsome, strong and smart. And Elena is a fae in disguise, quite messy and used to treat with weird creatures and facts.
Definitely they collide in their first meeting. But as long as they start working together and knowing more about each other they start to respect and care for each other. This is a slow burn romance with the right pace and feeling just start showing up while their investigation is going on. I did like their dynamic a lot. Their interaction and evolution is believable and entertaining.
The story is is interesting and with a good mix of mysteries, adventures, supernatural revelations and funny situations. And the writing is pretty good. Everything flows perfectly and with sense so it’s a very enjoyable experience.
My only but would be the ending. I was expecting something bigger, more surprising and complicated and ended up being quite simple. Not a very complicated solution for the case. But other than that I had a great time reading Wiretaps & Whiskers.I totally recommend it.
January 13, 2022
FBI-OCD Faerie
This novel’s author, Emigh Cannaday, likely giggled to herself when she chose the initials OCD for the FBI’s paranormal/occult division. The series is off to a rip-roaring start when the occult division’s chief pairs real-life faerie Elena with a new partner, newly-promoted Senior Special Agent Hawthorne.
The man could be straight out of Central Casting: tall, clean-cut, ripped, serious, sensible, and eager to work. He believes magic is for fairy tales, and he eats a sensible balanced diet meant to fuel his body so it performs like a well-oiled machine.
Elena, on the other hand, has super vivid green eyes, shockingly pink hair, rumpled clothing that may or may not be clean, and an insatiable appetite for all things sugar. Give her a case of Fanta and a couple of packs of Skittles, and she’ll be good until she orders her next dessert.
It’s up to Elena to get her new partner acquainted with the world of magic, and in a hurry, because hundreds of children are disappearing virtually in front of their parents’ eyes. Skeptical though he is, Hawthorne can’t deny the odd pull he feels where his new partner is concerned.
Their chemistry is as undeniable as the evidence that there’s massive spillover from Elena’s world to mundane Earth. I’m excited to read more novels in Cannaday’s enticing, series.
This novel’s author, Emigh Cannaday, likely giggled to herself when she chose the initials OCD for the FBI’s paranormal/occult division. The series is off to a rip-roaring start when the occult division’s chief pairs real-life faerie Elena with a new partner, newly-promoted Senior Special Agent Hawthorne.
The man could be straight out of Central Casting: tall, clean-cut, ripped, serious, sensible, and eager to work. He believes magic is for fairy tales, and he eats a sensible balanced diet meant to fuel his body so it performs like a well-oiled machine.
Elena, on the other hand, has super vivid green eyes, shockingly pink hair, rumpled clothing that may or may not be clean, and an insatiable appetite for all things sugar. Give her a case of Fanta and a couple of packs of Skittles, and she’ll be good until she orders her next dessert.
It’s up to Elena to get her new partner acquainted with the world of magic, and in a hurry, because hundreds of children are disappearing virtually in front of their parents’ eyes. Skeptical though he is, Hawthorne can’t deny the odd pull he feels where his new partner is concerned.
Their chemistry is as undeniable as the evidence that there’s massive spillover from Elena’s world to mundane Earth. I’m excited to read more novels in Cannaday’s enticing, series.
August 26, 2021
What happens when the FBI division of Occult Crimes is finally informed about the disappearance of hundreds of children?
They send in their specialist...With her new partner.
Elena Rivera was recruited by the FBI for her unique abilities and talents—especially those that could deal with the things that go bump in the night.
Logan Hawthorne was just promoted to Senior Special Agent and assigned to the Occult Crime Division.
What happens when you have a play it by the book agent and an agent that trusts her gut and senses, partnered together on a high-stake case?
A team that is sent to the Smoky Mountains to figure out why children have been disappearing, where they are and how to get them home.
Add in the antics of a small mountain town, and you have the perfect ingredients for a paranormal mystery.
I enjoyed the escapades and introduction the Faerie Files Series, and am looking forward to reading the second book (Catnip and Curses) this weekend, and waiting impatiently for the third book (Hexes and Hairballs) to be released in October.
I give Wiretaps and Whiskers five out of five stars, and highly recommend the book to anyone looking for a lighthearted mystery with a touch of the paranormal.
They send in their specialist...With her new partner.
Elena Rivera was recruited by the FBI for her unique abilities and talents—especially those that could deal with the things that go bump in the night.
Logan Hawthorne was just promoted to Senior Special Agent and assigned to the Occult Crime Division.
What happens when you have a play it by the book agent and an agent that trusts her gut and senses, partnered together on a high-stake case?
A team that is sent to the Smoky Mountains to figure out why children have been disappearing, where they are and how to get them home.
Add in the antics of a small mountain town, and you have the perfect ingredients for a paranormal mystery.
I enjoyed the escapades and introduction the Faerie Files Series, and am looking forward to reading the second book (Catnip and Curses) this weekend, and waiting impatiently for the third book (Hexes and Hairballs) to be released in October.
I give Wiretaps and Whiskers five out of five stars, and highly recommend the book to anyone looking for a lighthearted mystery with a touch of the paranormal.
February 13, 2023
2.5 stars The main problem with this book is that it's labeled as an adult paranormal/UF book when this was clearly written with a YA audience in mind. The author is trying to make us believe in an enemies to lovers situation where the heroine is a grumpy "not like other girls" fae and the human "Brad" FBI guy who dislike each other for no real reason and fight like kindergartens. Eventhough they are on a case involving trying to find hundreds-yes, hundreds of Missing Children they still have time for "fights" about each other's diets?! 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ It's obviously super important to be unreasonably angry over the fact that her diet is 95% sugar and he likes to eat a more balanced diet. They have nothing in common. I mean they're both hot 🔥 and she's sparkly ✨ so clearly they should be together. 😏 So if you like the mess that Twilight is or things that Clare, Maas and Armentrount write, where it's 90% amped up teenage angst with no plot or character development well then after the trash pile that is ACOTAR you can move onto this. This is at least edited and shorter, which is more than I can say for the others so...enjoy. 😏
February 17, 2023
Wonderful crime case mystery
Elena works for OCD, a department within the FBI Mulder would have loved to have worked in. She is assigned a case of missing children and a partner Logan, who is a newbie into the paranormal. The two grudgingly set off to the small town to investigate the disappearances. It this small town might hold more than what you can see at a first glance.
I love a good mystery crime novel and this one hit all the right spots for me! The mystery of the case feels good and the investigation solid and I really like Elena’s and Logan’s opposites attract -vibe. There’s a lot of chemistry there and seeing them slowly grow on one another and trust one another felt natural and good. Like a good slow burn does.
There’s no romance in this, but there are a lot of hints towards them both having some kind of feelings towards their partner. I’m very curious to see if things will heat up between them down the line.
The tag line promised that if you love Buffy and X-files you’d love this one too and I have to say that it was correct for me. Love, love, love this one ❤️
Elena works for OCD, a department within the FBI Mulder would have loved to have worked in. She is assigned a case of missing children and a partner Logan, who is a newbie into the paranormal. The two grudgingly set off to the small town to investigate the disappearances. It this small town might hold more than what you can see at a first glance.
I love a good mystery crime novel and this one hit all the right spots for me! The mystery of the case feels good and the investigation solid and I really like Elena’s and Logan’s opposites attract -vibe. There’s a lot of chemistry there and seeing them slowly grow on one another and trust one another felt natural and good. Like a good slow burn does.
There’s no romance in this, but there are a lot of hints towards them both having some kind of feelings towards their partner. I’m very curious to see if things will heat up between them down the line.
The tag line promised that if you love Buffy and X-files you’d love this one too and I have to say that it was correct for me. Love, love, love this one ❤️
July 13, 2023
I liked this, it was very easy to read. The relationship between Elena and Logan develops very naturally and doesn't feel too forced.
I'm only rating this 3⭐️ because
a) I felt the ending was a bit rushed and anti-climatic. There was a lot of build up, and a very real threat, and as I progressed further into the book and got to about 80% of the way in and the characters still hadn't managed to figure out how to stop what was happening, at first I thought it might be something that continued into the second book... but no, it all comes together very nicely and conveniently, so fell a bit flat to me.
b) I was a bit disappointed that Logan didn't really get his time to shine as one of the top agents in the FBI. I know you're supposed to understand he's completely out of his comfort zone and belief in the occult but he's still a senior federal agent that is top of his game, he was pretty much useless other than being a bit of a rock for Elena.
I'm excited to read the next installment though and see what happens next between these two! So I'm hoping it gets better in terms of character development and story!
I'm only rating this 3⭐️ because
a) I felt the ending was a bit rushed and anti-climatic. There was a lot of build up, and a very real threat, and as I progressed further into the book and got to about 80% of the way in and the characters still hadn't managed to figure out how to stop what was happening, at first I thought it might be something that continued into the second book... but no, it all comes together very nicely and conveniently, so fell a bit flat to me.
b) I was a bit disappointed that Logan didn't really get his time to shine as one of the top agents in the FBI. I know you're supposed to understand he's completely out of his comfort zone and belief in the occult but he's still a senior federal agent that is top of his game, he was pretty much useless other than being a bit of a rock for Elena.
I'm excited to read the next installment though and see what happens next between these two! So I'm hoping it gets better in terms of character development and story!
June 26, 2022
FBI’s Occult Crimes Division (OCD) agent Elena Rivera isn’t thrilled to be saddled with newly promoted, straight-edged agent Logan Hawthorne on a case of missing children. Elena and Logan mix like oil and water (over too many pages) and are reminiscent of the old X-files TV show (except Elena believes and Logan doesn’t).
Elena’s convinced paranormal beings are involved based on a witness statement and that the disappearances occur in a often used swath of forest while Logan is certain an elaborate hoax is afoot and more investigation is necessary. When Logan’s faced with irrefutable reason, he’s more than flexible (and calmly accepting) in his outlook.
While not choppy or completely unappealing, this foundation tale isn’t the tightly woven, smooth read that ensnares this reader. To my taste, too much is given over to this couple’s bickering to highlight their differences along with obviously telegraphed pieces not to mention the seemingly overabundance of fluff (the cloudy momentum-less secondary thread) that removed the suspense and thrills.
Rating: 2.5stars
Elena’s convinced paranormal beings are involved based on a witness statement and that the disappearances occur in a often used swath of forest while Logan is certain an elaborate hoax is afoot and more investigation is necessary. When Logan’s faced with irrefutable reason, he’s more than flexible (and calmly accepting) in his outlook.
While not choppy or completely unappealing, this foundation tale isn’t the tightly woven, smooth read that ensnares this reader. To my taste, too much is given over to this couple’s bickering to highlight their differences along with obviously telegraphed pieces not to mention the seemingly overabundance of fluff (the cloudy momentum-less secondary thread) that removed the suspense and thrills.
Rating: 2.5stars
August 8, 2021
I’m a big fan of Emigh and her other series. This was the first book in a new world. New characters.
It was FUN! I loved the humour. A lot of paranormal fantasy books are serious and a little dark and heavy on the romance. And there’s nothing wrong with that its a formula that works. This works for so many other reasons. The characters have struggles (its a real strength in Cannadays writing that her characters have flaws and problems that don’t just disappear) They’re working with people who they don’t like, in situations they wouldn’t choose and we get to see them build on a relationship from the very start.
Love the crime element. It has all the right amounts of creepy, disturbing, dangerous with humour and cats.
Can’t wait to get into the next one. Or Annika Brisby 5 ….whatever comes out next. (If you haven’t read her Annika Brisby series go and fall in love with Talvi)
It was FUN! I loved the humour. A lot of paranormal fantasy books are serious and a little dark and heavy on the romance. And there’s nothing wrong with that its a formula that works. This works for so many other reasons. The characters have struggles (its a real strength in Cannadays writing that her characters have flaws and problems that don’t just disappear) They’re working with people who they don’t like, in situations they wouldn’t choose and we get to see them build on a relationship from the very start.
Love the crime element. It has all the right amounts of creepy, disturbing, dangerous with humour and cats.
Can’t wait to get into the next one. Or Annika Brisby 5 ….whatever comes out next. (If you haven’t read her Annika Brisby series go and fall in love with Talvi)
August 29, 2021
Could this be my new must read series?
This was a fun read, if a tad predictable in places. I found Elena, Agent Rivera, to be quite the standoffish sass pot. Her, dare I say, rage against the world attitude was a little off putting at times, but between her, Logan, and Harris, I rather enjoyed what this author was serving up.
The disappearances and their connection to Elena’s past left me wanting to know more about her and her family, and I particularly liked how even though sparks flew when Elena and Logan first met, their shared family losses gave them a chance to down weapons, so to speak.
The only reason I didn’t rate this higher was because of how the final confrontations go. Everything seemed over too quickly and neatly. However, the ending had me picking up book two right away.
3.75 stars ⭐️
This was a fun read, if a tad predictable in places. I found Elena, Agent Rivera, to be quite the standoffish sass pot. Her, dare I say, rage against the world attitude was a little off putting at times, but between her, Logan, and Harris, I rather enjoyed what this author was serving up.
The disappearances and their connection to Elena’s past left me wanting to know more about her and her family, and I particularly liked how even though sparks flew when Elena and Logan first met, their shared family losses gave them a chance to down weapons, so to speak.
The only reason I didn’t rate this higher was because of how the final confrontations go. Everything seemed over too quickly and neatly. However, the ending had me picking up book two right away.
3.75 stars ⭐️
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