Book 10, 2018
Jan. 29th, 2018 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chez_jaeI finished reading Grave Ransom this morning. It's part of author Kalayna Price's "Alex Craft" urban fantasy series, featuring grave witch Alex Craft.
As a grave witch, Alex is used to dealing with the dead, but she's never encountered a walking corpse...until now. Alarmed and intrigued, Alex follows the man into a museum, in time to witness him stealing an artifact. When Alex uses her abilities to eject the soul from the dead body, she is shocked to find that it is a young woman. After Alex witnesses another group of animated bodies committing a crime, and learning that the souls don't match, she becomes embroiled in the investigation, which spans normal police, magical law enforcement, and the fae. It's up to Alex, fae Falin Andrews (from FIB), and the enigmatic Briar Darque (from MCIB), to find out what's going on and put a stop to it before anyone else is killed.
There was certainly a lot going on in this book, most of which dovetailed neatly into a whole, making for an engrossing story. Along the way, Alex is hired by a teenage girl to find her missing boyfriend, her relationship with the soul collector she knows only as Death is becoming more untenable, her mortal home and her office are broken into, and she is still learning how to interact with and live in the magical castle that followed her from Faerie into the mortal realm. Characterizations are well done, building on familiar characters as well as those newly introduced in this book.
Favorite line: ...hey, no one ever said a guy couldn't have career aspirations after death.
Thrilling, a bit frightening, and loaded with emotion--fantastic story. Five stars:
*****
As a grave witch, Alex is used to dealing with the dead, but she's never encountered a walking corpse...until now. Alarmed and intrigued, Alex follows the man into a museum, in time to witness him stealing an artifact. When Alex uses her abilities to eject the soul from the dead body, she is shocked to find that it is a young woman. After Alex witnesses another group of animated bodies committing a crime, and learning that the souls don't match, she becomes embroiled in the investigation, which spans normal police, magical law enforcement, and the fae. It's up to Alex, fae Falin Andrews (from FIB), and the enigmatic Briar Darque (from MCIB), to find out what's going on and put a stop to it before anyone else is killed.
There was certainly a lot going on in this book, most of which dovetailed neatly into a whole, making for an engrossing story. Along the way, Alex is hired by a teenage girl to find her missing boyfriend, her relationship with the soul collector she knows only as Death is becoming more untenable, her mortal home and her office are broken into, and she is still learning how to interact with and live in the magical castle that followed her from Faerie into the mortal realm. Characterizations are well done, building on familiar characters as well as those newly introduced in this book.
Favorite line: ...hey, no one ever said a guy couldn't have career aspirations after death.
Thrilling, a bit frightening, and loaded with emotion--fantastic story. Five stars:
*****
