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Dead to the World

Crossroads Queen, Book 1

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Dead to the World

By: Annabel Chase
Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
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Lorelei Clay isn’t like other people.

She isn’t even like other supernaturals. Her specialties are the nightmares of the living, communication with the dead, and cooking bacon until it’s golden brown and perfectly crispy—no magic required.

Six months ago, she moved to the ultimate fixer upper, a monstrosity from the Gilded Age that borders the local cemetery in the sleepy Pennsylvania town of Fairhaven. Lorelei is content to spend the next few years in solitude, renovating the house and avoiding humanity, until a missing young woman disrupts her plans. Lorelei’s search for the teenager means crossing paths with the residents she’s successfully avoided so far, including the human police chief, the coven, a cursed vampire, the assassins guild, the werewolf pack, and the mysterious and infuriatingly alluring owner of The Devil’s Playground, an elegant nightclub that caters to the local supernatural clientele.

Lorelei plans to find the girl quickly and return to the privacy of her castle walls before anyone learns her secrets, but you know what they say about the best laid plans....

Dead to the World is the first book in the Crossroads Queen urban fantasy series.

©2023 Annabel Chase (P)2023 Annabel Chase Fantasy Fiction Mystery Paranormal Royalty

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I really enjoyed this audiobook. Good characters, great plot, nice pace. Looking forward to listening to the next in the series!

Great listening

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Such an enjoyable story, with excellent pacing and the way the narrator portrays the characters is really good!

Very enjoyable

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Fantastic story, great narration. I already adore Lorelai Clay and her acerbic ways! Can't wait to see how the alow burn romance progresses. Excellent world building. I thoroughly recommend this cozy urban fantasy series.

Absolutely loved it

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Kinda slow and lacking depth. It's basically a rehash of a particular episode of Buffy (won't say which, as that would spoil the book, since it's pretty much identical with just minor variations), but less good. The main character is not particularly likeable. I think she's probably meant to be an enneagram 5 self-pres (or at least, someone's superficial impression of one - literally lives in a castle), but just comes off as aloof and boring. The whole thing just feels a bit empty and flat. It does feel like an introduction possibly setting up for the next book, which has the potential to get better once you get to know the characters. However, the first book in a series really needs to get you hooked rather than be something to endure. Having gotten to the end, I don't feel invested in the characters or sense any kind of exciting over-arching storyline is going to unfold, so there's no desire to continue with the series for me.

Kinda dull

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