Nell doesn’t know what she is getting into when she first meets Jane Yellowrock and then gets drawn into PsyLed. The first in a series. Arc.

I would like to thank NetGalley, Berkley Publishing Group, and Faith Hunter for an advanced copy of Blood of the Earth, A Soulwood Novel for an honest review.

As soon as I found out that Faith Hunter, one of my favorite authors, was writing a new series; I was doing the Snoopy Dance (seriously). Blood of the Earth did not disappoint. This book had me from page one through the last and I really enjoyed this book. Another great start to a new series that I hope will gift us with many more books to read.

I loved this book. The characters are fun and likable. The series as a whole is wonderful.

Faith Hunter has created a different sort of protagonist in Nell, in this spinoff from the Jane Yellow rock series. Jane is a fighter, willing to take it on with an aggressor, but she also is loving and caring towards her adoptive family. Nell is a smaller, gentler woman who is estranged from her family. In many ways, Nell is like how Jane used to be in her earlier novels, isolated and alone.

Nell just wants to live her life in peace, but thee Church of God's Cloud still persists in trying to bring her into the fold. When the FBI sends a group to Nell, hoping for her knowledge of and assistance with the Church, they almost blackmail her into helping. But from the beginning, the various members try to make Nell part of the group. By the end, Nell is almost comfortably integrated into the team, and is exploring a reconciliation with her family. Just as with Jane, there is some fighting and magic, but the focus here is on the interaction of people, even more so than with Jane.

I was unable to read this book as I lost my phone and was unable to retrieve the book file that was sent to me. This title has since been archived.