Great Balls of Fury

A Federal Bureau of Magic Cozy Myster, Book 1

By: Annabel Chase

Narrated by: Elizabeth Saydah

Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight....

Annoying but loving family? Check.

Picturesque small town with a hot police chief? Check.

A rescue hellhound, a black cat with attitude, and a pet python that thinks he’s a puppy? Triple check.

My story has all the hallmarks of a sweet and cozy supernatural tale, but there’s a twist - I am evil.

Well, I’m supposed to be evil thanks to both nature and nurture, but I fight it with every fiber of my being. I just want to live a normal life. I even joined the FBI instead of the Federal Bureau of Magic, until my powers reared their ugly head and the agency sent me packing back to my hometown to fight magical crimes instead.

Now I’m back in Chipping Cheddar, living with my evil family, with a new job and all my old baggage.

Oh, and there’s a dead body, which was definitely not an accident.

So there you have it. Welcome to my world.

Great Balls of Fury is the first book in the Federal Bureau of Magic paranormal cozy mystery series.

Other books in the series include:

• Fury Godmother, Book 2
• No Guts, No Fury, Book 3

©2019 Red Palm Press LLC (P)2019 Red Palm Press LLC

good story

it was an enjoyable story. I had a couple good chuckles.Check her out for fun.

Addams Family Vibes, Feigned Fury, Good Cozy Start

Eden Fury through a misstep on a call while an FBI agent had her non-human ancestry discovered and is transferred to FBM (Federal Bureau of Magic) and transferred back in her home of Chipping Cheddar that she swore she would never return to. This story has all the flavors of coming back to the small town with all the relationships you left behind with an added bonus of a supernatural mostly evil family that is funny and quirky and gives you the Addams Family vibe. There is lots of humor and early beginnings to a community, possible romance, and lots of familial, foe, and friendly relationships that I look forward to seeing expanded.

I unlike some mentions from other reviewers did not notice mispronunciations and really enjoyed the narrator and her great spectrum of accents for characters that made them come to life. I do however listen to my cozies at 1.5x speed. Also worth mentioning I am starting this series because I have listened to all of Annabel Chase's other series called Spellbound which is also a fun supernatural cozy but feels more YA than this one.

I will say Eden also is similar to the trope of Vegan Vampire who doesn't want to drink blood or be bad. Eden is a Fury who doesn't use her power or express it, in fact disdains it, which means as an audience this is an area we don't get to explore. This extends to her other family members, we don't really see or get to know what they all can do or do do for their jobs. I truly hope this is developed in future volumes.

I love the humor in the stories and found myself chuckling out loud several times even in moments you could see the joke coming. This is a lovely light read with a promising set up and plenty of room to expand. I will be continuing in the series.

Not too bad for a start.

As a new series, this wasn't too bad of a start. It was a little short, but kept a good pace.
I'm actually going to check out the next one.

Fury on hold...

Very cute new book by Annabel Chase with a completely new spin on the Cozy mystery. Very creative plot switch! Elizabeth Saydah does a wonderful job on the audiobook as well! ❤

Loved it! great story and narration

I loved the narration and the story. the snark and sarcasm was awesome.i felt like I was part of the family..

Great Fun!!!!!

This book was really funny good world and character building with some magic. I look forward to the next book and the narrator is great. She has a good voice for female and male characters which for me is essential. Half the fun of audio books is the narrators ability to bring the story to life. Highly recommend
LMM

Liked it!

Story was interesting, liked the demon family aspect. I will definitely give the rest of the series a try.

Mispronunciations were distracting.

The narrator mispronounced several words repeatedly throughout the book. Once or twice is distracting, but hearing the same words constantly mispronounced gets annoying enough to pull you out of the book. The worst was her pronunciation of “corporeal” as “corporal”.

not for me

The mystery is ok but the characters are too quirky and overshadow the story. I don't think I'm interested in anymore books in this series.

Cruel

I like the premise of this story but having come from a verbally abuse mother I couldn’t stand the constant picking on the main character. The grandmother is really awful and the parents aren’t much better. It actually made me very sad. Hopefully the grandmother will disappear into the other world for good soon. I would move out of the house in 10 minutes. Never to go in again.