It’s all fun and games (and a regular day at your 9-5 job), until you are abducted on a parking garage, just to find out that you weren’t the target and you might die if you don’t prove yourself useful to the kidnappers (that kill women for fun). And if you think this isn’t curious enough to be interested in this book, just ask yourself why would a werewolf want to learn Krav Maga?
192 Days Missing, is the latest book from the Werewolf P.I. Series, and from the start you have an interesting and relatively fast paced novel that gets to the point in every chapter. There is no ramble as scenes develop and chapters reach their goals, which, as mystery, helps to keep the reader engaged and entertained.
For mystery lovers, this is a novel that will keep on pulling and pulling, and giving so little, yet enough to keep you curious and entertained on the mystery that they are trying to solve, and for those like me that loves to create projections of the plot and theories, you will be finding yourself saying.”Ahah! I have got this figured out, but, there are several strings left, so I can be wrong…” , so no spoilers until the end. And Monthy Python humour! HA!
Little clues and info come in drops in this book, which is super cool ,and adds to the atmosphere of being a private investigator due to the total mystery and suspense. As we read, we start to get ourselves closer and closer to the point of view of Sara, and we start to feel ourselves in her skin in the sense of not knowing and wanting to know more as time ticks by. This is great!
One has to say it: there is high creativity when it comes to describing people from Sue Denver, the author, and she always find a way to come up with clever, laughter-inducing notes and replies from and about characters like:
“The man had a tanned mostly-bald dome accented by two sides of close-cropped gray hair. His tie was knotted so high up it had to be choking him. He was just under six feet tall and slim enough to be running on a treadmill everyday. His smile was as real as a salesman’s.”
The dynamics between the characters, are unique, you can see that Sara has a way to talk to Mason, Connor and each character differently. It is as if different sides of her are activated, something that allows us to know more about the main character and know her motivations better.
One of the most interesting characters, however, is not the MC, but Judy, the “do-it-all, 56 year old flirting drill sergeant/accountant/requisition manager”, that at times does some investigative missions as well while gambling, lol! She is the burst of energy in the book, and the addition is very well thought out, because the other characters have a smoother behaviour pattern to which Judy contrasts very well.
Will you get werewolf action in this part of the series? Oh, yes you bet! And the details, the details!!!! You can feel the novel come alive, with a bigger spark when it comes to werewolfy things and scenes, as if the author had been waiting a long time to write these scenes, and yes, yes, they are worth the wait, so enjoy the rest of the book.
I do understand that the author wants to cement the series, and is using this book , 192 Days Missing, to confirm her plans to set a stepping stone and bringing in new characters and making us readers more comfortable with them, seeing them as main characters and trying to develop them without any pressure, like a test-drive, and this approach worked very well. You can feel that the novel may, or may not have more characters but it will have more characters most likely, so there is that.
There is something super cool about this book and series narrative. The rich people are the bad guys, which, although this is a a mystery-paranormal book, it feels even more real than other normal fictional books that idolize billionaires and rich people! Sue Denver actually tells you how vile billionaires are, how snobbish, cold and brutal they are and those that work for them, and how many crimes they commit and how none of them are condemned. This book makes your skin crawl in anger in this aspect, but it gives you a very real and actually plausible image from what happens in real life.
I also loved the fact that Sue Denver didn’t sugar coat the woman trafficking schemes, what happened to the women, their suffering, how tortured they were, and that makes actually care about it and feel bad for not doing more for that, and to know that most times people with power and loads of money are behind if, just adds in the fire that builds inside of you to do something against very rich people, because, let’s face it, they are awful people most of the time, billionaires.
So, if you are like me, and want to read billionaires getting justice for their crimes, with a badass, stubborn women-werewolf, and a team that make her life a living semi-hell (because she is a loner), and throw tantrums when they almost get fired because they love to get shot and almost die in explosions, then grab this beauty of a book. The ending is really cool, seriously, this book only grows better. So grab it, and read it and the rest of the series. Awesome stuff here.
Pros:
- Smooth narrative
- Amazing descriptions
- Great characters and character development
- The introduction to new characters is smooth and the integration of them into the series is smooth and paced
- Very descriptive and believable action scenes
- Believable plot
- Compelling and emotionally engaging story with a strong message
- Billionaires die
- Sara’s dog is dramatic
Cons:
– The bullet wound to the chest when Sara was a wolf. The bullet passed or did it stay? It made me think if inner objects are affected by magic or supernatural powers or not.
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