The Fae’s Amulet

The Lady of Death, Book 1

De: J.F. Posthumus

Narrado por: Teri Kay Jobe

Duración: 10 h y 25 m

Resumen del Editor

What would you do if you had the power to destroy the world?

In her younger years, Catherine Woulfe was known as the Lady of Death...but those days are long past. Now, at over 300 years old, she is older, wiser...and painfully dull. Instead of using her necromancy skills for things like killing people and taking over governments, she now works as a private investigator, helping people find their lost treasures.

But when a charismatic stranger walks through her door, searching for one of the most powerful artifacts ever created, she is drawn into a case where she must use all of her old powers - including several forbidden ones - if she is to find the missing amulet. When the last person to see the amulet goes missing, she realizes it’s time for the Lady of Death to summon her minions and go on the warpath.

Angels and demons are searching for the amulet, as is a mysterious dark elf about whom little is known. Everyone is stalking her, waiting for her to find it so they can grab it for their own; meanwhile, her client has awoken feelings long suppressed, which is proving to be...distracting.

Can Catherine find the trail of the thief and recover the amulet before the thief uses it to summon a deity that will destroy the Earth? More importantly, if she gets it, will she give it back?

©2020 J.F. Posthumus (P)2021 Three Ravens Publishing

Actually quite excellent, except for the ending

I was quite thrilled to discover this author, who is clever, literate, creative, and clearly does her research into all things metaphysical and magical. She has developed a really interesting world for this novel, and has created a very, very, powerful, truly, yet subtly, badass female main character, who never breaks a sweat, never throws a punch, but crumbles the baddies to dust in a variety of very satisfying ways. Lady of Death indeed. The male love interest is a definite make-you-swoon-just-reading-about-him. I would have purchased the next books immediately, except for the ending of this novel, which, in this era of the end of Roe v Wade, is perhaps too intense for right now ... a bit of a spoiler here, but the books ends with an unwanted, unplanned pregnancy from a couple night's hookups with sexy man. I'm not disappointed in the main character, I'm disappointed in the female author for doing this to a female character. I'm not ready to read a whole next book about how she talks herself into being happy she gets to change her whole damn life around to become a mother after 300 happy years of childlessness. I would have given the book a one star rating, but that would have just been peevishness on my part. It deserves four stars, as the writing is really excellent, the creativity is startlingly good, it's just the nasty stunt of the surprise pregnancy that has ruined the book for me.

I love this story!

I love Cat and her adventures. The narrator is wonderful and needs to read all the Lady Death books!