Shadow Hunter by B.R. Kingsolver

2 Stars

When Erin it her teen years she came into her magic.  It was so powerful her parents sold her to the Illuminati to be trained.  She worked for them until she found out they were the bad guys.  After she destroyed her home city, she took off for something better.  What she found was Rosie O’Grady’s bar.  She gets a bartending job there and tries to start over until murders start happening all around her.

There was more telling me the story then showing me the story.  The first chapter felt like a summary of details that you will need.  It didn’t work for me at all as it felt like she was listing off all this information we would need.  The other big issue was character related.  Erin was supposed to be this master assassin who can get in and get the job done.  However, when she leaves this life behind it seems she became a naïve woman who had never had pizza.  I can get that she had never had friends and that stuff would be confusing but not all of the things told to me she had never experienced.  Another problem is she complains a lot about all these people coming to her for help, but she literally is touting facts the police and lawyers need so why wouldn’t they come to you.  There was also no world building at all.  Normally first books suffer from information overload on the world building, but this book didn’t do enough.  Is it supposed to an alternate Earth or our Earth just with magic.  I will not be reading the next book in the series.

Book 1 Rosie O’Grady’s Paranormal Bar and Grill