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Six pound nineteen per witching hour Paranormal Personnel Saga #1 Joanna Mazurkiewicz 9781484146361 Books

I read the lead in for this story and thought it sounded good. I was disappointed. The first part of the first chapter started out well, but went down hill fast. Repeating the same words and thoughts over and over goes only so far, how many times can the main characters 'roar'? A lot. And I don't need told over and over the same things that were told in previous chapters...ie..grand mother does not approve of vamps
I also felt the main characters forgot to take their bipolar meds. Emotions all over the place making it impossible to connect with any of them. Lastly, throwing the f word in ruined the rest of the read. I have no problem with the word just found it did not fit. Would suggest a complete rewrite before I would recommend this. There is also a missing paragraph towards the end which makes it even more confusing.
The idea of the story was good but the author did not bring it.


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Six pound nineteen per witching hour Paranormal Personnel Saga #1 Joanna Mazurkiewicz 9781484146361 Books Reviews

I wanted to like this book. The premise for this series sounded so imaginative and promising that I was sure it would be a fun read. I was hoping for a smart, funny and likeable protagonist in a story that moved forward with clever dialog, a compelling plot and good pacing. What I got was a dumb blonde, boring dialog and a disappointing plot. I found it very hard to like or feel any sympathy for a credulous and self-centered character like Julia.

In the interests of full disclosure, I must admit that I also read books two and three in the series. I was so in love with the premise that I couldn't give up on the idea the next books simply had to get better. Like Julia, I made the same mistake over and over. The series doesn't get better; it gets worse. I can't recommend it.
This book reads like some bizarre collaborative experiment between multiple authors, as if each one only received a brief summary of the previous chapter before beginning the next. Information is repeated, sometimes in a slightly different way, from chapter to chapter. Some parts of the plot seem to be repeated, some are dropped never to return.

As a reader, I felt much like the residents of the fictional London presented in the book -- paranormal events are happening all around them, but they don't have enough information to understand them. That is how I felt while reading this book. A book was happening all around me, but the author was utterly uninterested in helping me through it (or was unable to do so).

One example may illustrate this point. One of the secondary characters was a mermaid. She works in an office and clearly ambulates in some way while getting around London with her peers. So is she bespelled to temporarily or permanently have human form? She mentions swimming at one point, so I had no idea if she was reverting back to having a tale at those times. The author provides nothing to help us understanding, leaving me wondering if she and I have completely different understandings of what "mermaid" means.

The plot is a slow moving mystery involving kidnappings. Although the mystery is the main force pushing Julia (our half-elf heroine working as a paranormal staffing specialist) into contact with Nathaniel (the vampire businessman who is a not-so-fresh reheated combo of Edward Cullen, Christian Grey, and your routine "hit it and quit it" playboy), their actual investigation is as dull as dishwater and clearly not a priority for either one of them (this is odd, given that one of the victims is a family member that Julia supposedly cares for). Nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens . . . and when Julia finally does unravel the plot, it's by complete and total happenstance.

Julia is determined to resist Nathaniel, mainly because his main method of seduction is to tell her how wonderful she smells and how he's willing to debase himself by dating her if that is what it takes to gain access to her bed. We know this because we're told, constantly, how determined she is to resist him. Then she changes her mind. Then she tells him again. She's so determined to avoid any type of sexual pleasure that the eventual explicit sex is shocking and incongruous, as if the author felt compelled to check off the boxes on some "Elements of a proper paranormal romance" checklist.

The editing is awful. At the end of the book, she thanks some proofreaders. I hope she didn't pay them anything, as she was ripped off if she did. If they did it as a favor, they should find another way to assist their friends, because the attention given to this manuscript was an actual disservice to their friend. I am sure that the author better at English than I will ever be at Polish, but almost every page contained distracting errors. Characters lick their "upper lips" or their "lower lips" (although now that I think about it, this could just be another unusual feature of the paranormal world). There are strange comments that don't make sense -- like when Julia goes into a bar and gives her order to a "British waiter." They're in London, so I'm not sure why this detail was thrown in, especially given that the waiter doesn't play any other role in the scene. The setting is clearly in England, but there are also some strangely Americanized details -- like when a character is arrested and given the Miranda Warning, but with "solicitor" substituted for "lawyer." The British do have a warning given to suspects, but it is different from the Miranda Warning because the legal systems aren't identical between the two countries. The final product is absolutely unprofessional.
I could not finish this book. It had a great premise. I had high hopes. They were dashed. I got 57% through it, and I gave up. Everything was repeated about 50 times. The whole elf, vampire thing. Her hair looked great all the time. He wanted her and her blood. She didn't sleep around. Her mother and grandmother did not get along. The problems with her magic. Over and over. The dialog was stilted, it seemed like something out of a grade school primer. I might have stuck with it if it had moved along, but it seemed like the plot never got moving. Probably because it was repeating everything all the time.
I read the lead in for this story and thought it sounded good. I was disappointed. The first part of the first chapter started out well, but went down hill fast. Repeating the same words and thoughts over and over goes only so far, how many times can the main characters 'roar'? A lot. And I don't need told over and over the same things that were told in previous chapters...ie..grand mother does not approve of vamps
I also felt the main characters forgot to take their bipolar meds. Emotions all over the place making it impossible to connect with any of them. Lastly, throwing the f word in ruined the rest of the read. I have no problem with the word just found it did not fit. Would suggest a complete rewrite before I would recommend this. There is also a missing paragraph towards the end which makes it even more confusing.
The idea of the story was good but the author did not bring it.