Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

Shadows & Dreams (Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator #2)

Alexis Hall

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Previously published; newly revised by authorI like my women like I like my whiskey: liable to kill me.The two parts of being a paranormal private investigator I could really do without are being forced to eat bananas by an animated statue with a potassium fixation, and being put on trial for murder by a self-appointed council of vampire oligarchs.To be fair, I did kind of do it (the murder, not the bananas). But I was kind of saving my girlfriend, who is kind of one of them.On top of this, I’ve also wound up with a primordial queen of the damned trying to strangle me in my dreams. And the conspiracy of undead wizards who tried to sacrifice me fifteen years ago has decided that now is the best possible time to give it another go.Throw in the woman who left me for a tech start-up, the old girlfriend who I might sort of owe eternal mystical fealty to and a werewolf “it girl” who can’t decide if she wants to eat me in the good way or the bad way, and I’m beginning to think life would be easier if I made better choices. Then again, it’d be a whole lot less fun.This book is approximately 98,000 words

Publication Year: 2019


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  • Apr 08, 2025
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    Kate Kane, paranormal investigator, is a gosh darn delight. I enjoyed the first book, and that background meant I could slip into this one without needing to catch up on who's who and what's what. I got to jump in and enjoy the ride. And it is a ride. It's more or less non-stop action.

    An old almost-hookup hires Kate to look for her missing brother, who walked out of the hospital after checking in with a broken leg. Kate not only finds him, but unearths a plot that involves an ancient awoken vampire queen, the Witch queen of London, the vampire council, and the local werewolf pack.

    I love Kate's voice in this - it's this sort of noir-snark that I adore. I am also halfway in love with Elise, Kate's assistant who happens to be an animated statue that Kate took in at the behest of the Multitude - a rat gestalt that takes the form of a priest, among other things.

    If you like action, snark, and animated statues that think you should have a banana, you ought to read this series.

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