The cover captured my attention first: a man with magic upon his hand. I read the first chapter on a blog, and I was hooked and had to pre-order Clara Coulson's Soul Breaker.
The Book's Description from Goodreads:
There’s a hideous monster on the loose, crushing heads and taking names.
But Detective Calvin Kinsey is on the case!
Two years ago, Cal Kinsey was an up-and-coming cop in the Aurora Police Department. But during a fateful nighttime stakeout in search of a prolific killer, Cal witnessed the darkest corner of his dreams come to life. A rogue vampire slaughtered his partner — to put it nicely — and introduced Cal to the supernatural world he never knew existed in the shadows.
Now, Cal is a newly minted detective at the often mocked Department of Supernatural Investigations. By day, the agents of DSI are called “Kooks” by local law enforcement. By night, they’re known as “Crows,” reviled by the supernatural underworld.
Mere weeks out of the academy, Cal catches his first real case, a vicious murder at a local college. An unknown sorcerer has summoned a powerful creature from the Eververse, a realm of magic and mayhem that borders Earth, and set it on a dangerous warpath through the city.
Between butting heads with his grumpy team captain, stirring up ill will with the local wizards and witches, and repeatedly getting the crap beaten out of himself, Cal must find a way to stop the Eververse monster and send it back to the hell it came from…
…preferably before Aurora, Michigan runs out of coffins for the dead.
Cherie's Review:
DSI detective Cal Kinsey's first supernatural case might be his last in Clara Coulson's Soul Breaker.
What attracted me to this novel was the voice of the main character Cal Kinsey. He's sarcastic, sometimes a bit of a jerk, and rash, but he's also caring, kind, and a hero. The action and tension are non-stop, and all I wanted to do was keep reading to find out what would happen next to Cal and the other Department of Supernatural Investigations' members. Coulson crafts a fascinating and unique world and explanation of the supernatural through the invention of the Eververse. There are mysteries within the world and about Cal that I'm particularly looking forward to reading about in the next books.
Soul Breaker by Clara Coulson is book one of the City of Crows series, so I'm excited we have more to come. I'm so looking forward to the next book!
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I love it when a book won't let me put it down. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a book I'd really like! Thanks for the review.
ReplyDeleteOooh. As usual here I can only type 'thank you and drat you'. I really, really don't need any more books to lust after.
ReplyDeleteSounds like my kind of book!!! Great Review, Cherie!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the review, Cherie! It sounds like a great read.
ReplyDeleteOoo! I think I have to read that.
ReplyDeleteGreat review! I love it when a book features a sarcastic voice like that, and the supernatural elements sound intriguing, too...
ReplyDeleteSounds good. The combo of supernatural elements and detectives can be really fun.
ReplyDeleteReminds me a bit of the Desden Files, in a good way! :)
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