ARC Review: Deceived by The Others {H&W Investigations #3} by Jess Haines

 

They’re here, and they’re real…werewolves, vampires, mages, and other creatures of the night. For New York P.I. Shiarra Waynest, taking care of Others business started out as a way to stay solvent. But now business is getting very, very complicated…

Shiarra’s relationship with sexy werewolf Chaz may be somewhat unconventional. Still, after a few bumps, Shia is finally ready to get serious. That means meeting family-or in this case, bringing Chaz’s entire werewolf pack along for a rollicking full-moon weekend in the Catskills.

Soon after they arrive, threatening notes appear, warning Chaz to go home. Then their cabin is ransacked. Shia starts digging to find out whether it’s the work of upstart teenaged werewolves or something more sinister. Yet as rumors about her vampire connections arouse the pack’s hostility, Shia has to contend with other dangers. Not just from an adversary about to make his fatal intentions known, but from a threat that’s even closer than she knows…

From Goodreads.

• Publisher: Zebra Books
  
  


• Release Date: July 1st, 2011
  
  


• My Copy: Received From The Author.
  
  


• Pages: 352 
  
  


• Series: H&W Investigations Series
  
  


• Genre: Urban Fantasy
  
  


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Deceived By The Others

 

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It is very hard nowadays to create something original and worthy of following through book after book, when it comes to Urban Fantasy. I mean, there are SO MANY Urban Fantasy series out there that for one to shine more than the others it doesn’t only have to be different but also offer such compelling characters and world that you won’t care that it all has been done before.

Jess Haines has been able to do it all. I mean, she hasn’t invented the UF wheel by any means, but with Deceived by the Others she has gone through a path with her characters that I wasn’t expecting at all, as an avid and sometimes jaded reader, I can definitely appreciate that.

I for one, thoroughly enjoyed both Hunted by The Others and Taken by the Others, but even though both books were quite awesome to read they had yet to cement strong feeling about this series and characters.

However, Deceived by the Others hits it out of the park for me, by not being drowned in clichés and proving that Jess Haines is not afraid of how her readers might feel and is brave enough to pursue a path with her characters that some might consider insane.

I, for one, am glad she went where she did with this book and I can only remember one author making me feel this way and it was Jeri Smith-Ready with the third in her WVMP Radio Series, Bring on The Night. For me, an author that is not afraid to take the almost unpaved path has balls and I admire her/him with all my heart.

The H&W Investigations series was already one I quite enjoyed, but with Deceived by the Others, Jess Haines has guaranteed her spot in my yearly book budget as well as in my heart.

If you are as much as an Urban Fantasy fan as I am, I absolutely recommend this series to you. If you have already read the first two book, you CANNOT miss this one, it’s brilliant.

 

 

Next in The H&W Investigations Series:

Books 4, 5 & 6 are in progress

{YAY!}

 

Previously in The H&W Investigations Series: 

  My Review of Hunted by the Others!

My Review of Taken by the Others! 

 

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