Poet Parker is Romani by birth and a fortune teller by choice. As a member of Mystic Caravan Circus, she’s spent the past ten years using her psychic talents to tell people what their future holds by day and hunting paranormal monsters by night.
You see, Mystic Caravan is more than just a circus – it’s also a force of good in a world that needs help fighting evil.
Poet is set in her ways – and happy with her life – until Kade Denton shows up and upends the entire operation. He’s loud and proud – and Poet doesn’t like anyone telling her what to do.
As the new head of security, Kade thinks his only job is going to be tackling drunken revelers when they get out of hand. He’s in for a rude – and bloody – awakening.
When monsters strike and the truth comes out, Kade finds he has to learn on the job with Poet as his somewhat reluctant instructor.
Sparks are flying – both real and figurative – and when a truly terrible beast targets the circus for extermination it’s all magical hands on deck for the final showdown.
Some things are born evil, but the people in Mystic Caravan were born to fight it.
Prepare to be amazed.
The Review
2.5 Stars
What I liked:
The basic story was good. Not great, but good enough that I would occasionally get that urge to continue reading it despite the other issues that I had with the book. I think it is a great read for younger audiences. There is some gore in it but it’s very minimal. The romance is clean as well, which isn’t really my cup of tea but would be good for younger or more sensitive audiences.
The relationship between Poet and Kade was another aspect that I appreciated in this book. It wasn’t overly cliché which is something that you run into a lot in this genre of book. It was nice that it was a little bit different than the usual tropes. I won’t say anymore lest I spoil the story!
I liked the mystery aspect of the story most of all. It added a different twist to the paranormal genre than I’m used to reading. It seemed a bit slow in coming, like it took a back seat to the romance part. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, depending on your preference, but I personally would have liked it if the mystery part was more the focus.
What irked me about the book:
It was a lot of manufactured drama that made me occasionally want to roll my eyes, and was mostly just very basic, ‘skin deep’ writing. The characters are unique in a way but not much time was spent on developing them in terms of their motivations matching their actions/ reactions. The writing was very elementary.
The puns, omg the puns. I know it was supposed to be tongue in cheek in the book and part of Luke’s character, but by the end I was as irritated with them as Poet was. And the “…” in the dialogue was everywhere. And I do mean everywhere. It was unnecessary in 99% of the places it was used and just pulled me out of the story every time I had to read it, which was just about every page.
Another thing that bugged me was the talking during what should have been action. Sometimes the characters had full conversations when they were supposedly running to fight a monster. It just made it weird and awkward to read.
Overall, it was an ok book to pass some free time. It didn’t keep me up at night and it only occasionally gave me the urge to read. Would I recommend it? As a quick, free, and very simple read – sure, why not. Will I read the sequels? Maybe, if I can’t find anything else to read, but I don’t think I’d pay for it.
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