3.75-Cute enough to get 2nd ( )

Are there negative stars? June 2015 Tried again bleh. Sex by page 25 does not bode well for story development. Still looking for negative stars.

A good friend and fellow urban fantasy reader referred me to this book, so I had high hopes. And was mostly rewarded for those hopes. There are some great characters I'd like to read more about. But I did feel that many of the characters are more like caricatures of "witch," "vampire," "physic," etc. Drummond just doesn't get very deep into the psyche of anyone but Discord. Plot was fun and the idea of a multi-talented psychic leaves the path open for more good books from the author. ( )

When the melding of two realms took place years ago, it really caused chaos. A number of people fell asleep for a few hours up to a few months and woke up with abilities, and many of those people are now witches and warlocks. This version of the world also contains shifters, vampires, demons, elves and other types of fae. Discordia (Cordi) Jones was in a coma for three years—she doesn’t know of anyone else being asleep that long from the event—waking up with a slew of different psychic abilities; some of which she doesn’t she has yet to discover. Deciding to use them for good, she works for Arcane Solutions as a private investigator that often deals with the supernatural.

It’s easy to see elements from a number of different series, but this doesn’t come across as a copy of any of them. Cordi is a very likeable character who while kick-butt in her own way, it’s from the use of her abilities much more than her ability to physically fight, and she does get hurt often. Not quite as hardnosed stubborn when it comes down to backing away from a fight as some other heroines I’ve come across, she doesn’t easily give up. And she’s got plenty of interesting friends who are willing to help out.

In this particular story Cordi is contracted to find a couple’s missing teenage daughter as well as a very old book stolen from an elf.

I enjoyed this Urban Fantasy story so much that I immediately downloaded the second book in the series and have since read the third as well. I found this to be an enjoyable story with really good world and character building and interesting situations. The author does need some help with editing, though. ( )