Shadows & Surrender: A Snarky Urban Fantasy Detective Series (The Jezebel Files, #3)

by Deborah Wilde

Ash wanted a career filled with challenging mysteries.

She should have specified she didn’t mean her family.

When a murder scene reveals a connection to Ash’s father who abandoned her when she was thirteen, she's stunned. He may be the key to stopping Chariot from achieving immortality.

The catch? He could be hiding anywhere in the world.

To make matters worse, Levi, Ash's romantic entanglement and brand-new boss, has his first official case for her: helping his ex-girlfriend, a.k.a. Ash's childhood tormentor.

No one ever said adulting was easy.

As secrets multiply and alliances get deadlier, Ash's investigation takes her back into Hedon and into her own past. Cracking this case could reunite her family... or cost her everyone she holds dear.

Actual ghosts have nothing on the ghosts of her past.

• ISBN10: 1988681456
• ISBN13: 9781988681450
• Publish Date: 2 June 2020
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: CA
• Imprint: Te Da Media Inc.
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 342
• Language: English

Reviews

[EBookObsessed]

Ash is a perfect Urban Fantasy heroine; strong, snarky and will face any danger to protect those she loves.

Note:  This really doesn't work well as a stand alone as we have been building the arc of the story since book 1.   While I am distracted by some similarities to the prior series, The Unlikeable Demon Hunter, I definitely like this series better. Also as this is book 3 in the series, it is getting very interesting, we are getting answers and I was up until 1:30 on a weekday because there was just so much going on that I didn't want to stop. Any issues I have are just nitpicky.

There is just so much going on here, almost too much.

I like Ash and Levi and many of the secondary characters in this series.  I like the world building and I am invested in the this story.  But there are just so many things going on here.  I know that once we get to the end, it will all coalesce.   I just wish that I didn't feel like it was all over the place and every time we are starting to get somewhere, the whole house of cards keeps crumbling down.

Received an ARC from the author in exchange for an honest review.