Action packed with a down-to-Earth strong female lead. I enjoyed the tone, it made this a fun book even with the sometimes graphic gore. There's a strong romance element, but it's not the main focus of the story.
This is the first in a series, but it has a solidly established feel to the story. You don't get lost, but you find there was a lot of story that happened before we get to this point. It works. You get to know the lead-up without being drowned in backstory. This means the series starts off with a set of fully developed characters and has momentum from the start.
If you like authors such as Charlaine Harris, Erin Kellison, Laurie London, or MaryJanice Davidson, you will enjoy this book.

Mallory was a detective and her partner;s name was Danny. Then Mallory and Danny got a car about a zombie attack with a officer down. Danny said he didn’t know anything could really make zombie. Then Mallory was stunned to drr two real zombies. Mallory was a dead witch and the zombies should have been hers. Mallory had raised a zombie once her husband Greg but she didn’t know she was a death witch. She didn’t know what she had done and Greg had to be put down by the local police. In general nobody liked zombies. Mallory was a detective with Supernatural Investigative Unit. When they got back to the station Danny and Mallory went right to the Lieutenant’s office and he informed although they weren’t s due for another large case yet they were getting the zombie case. He also told Mallory she would be getting a shadow team which was a pair of detectives working the same case on the opposite side of the clock and that just proved the zombie case was a serious case. The lieutenant thought there was more going on and Mallory agreed. There were two type of people that could raise zombies: death witches and Bokors or Voodoo priests. Mallory was the only death witch in the city. Mallory wanted to get out and start asking questions but there was paperwork to file but there was paperwork to file and that kept Mallory busy until the end ofthe day. Mallory didn’t like the summer always meant heat and boredom to Mallory and she was in love with a vampire- Jakob. Jakob was almost six hundred years old and spoke with a German accent.Mallory felt she and Jakob were closer in the half of year they had been together then Mallory and her husband Greg had been after four years of marriage. Phoebe was Mallory’s best friend and closest witch. Phoebe was a spirit witch and the first to recognize Mallory for she was. Then Mallory heard a raspy voice on her old fashioned answering machine and he said “ You took my my zombies I can forgive that. But you stay out of things that aren’t your business or maybe next time I take you. Mallory was still learning about all things supernatural. It seemed the zombies visited a store that had refused to pay protection money. Rakish the shop owner gave her names names and called other people to talk to her that had been approached for protection money. But nobody seemed to remember much about the two men who had approached them for protection money. The information Mallory and Danny got ‘was two white men with medium height and then were given a cellphone number the business owner had been given. Then the last shop they stopped at was a chocolate candy store and the owner was a jaguar . The owner -Indigo said he would email them a video he had from the time the two werewolves had stepped in and asked his shop and asked about what protection he had in the shop. Then Danny and Mallory went to the phonebook to look up Madame Marie’s the name the zombies had mentioned. The first one they visited didn’t sense the push Mallory but it was different with the spiritual guide.
I really enjoyed this story. I loved the plot and the pace and I felt this was well written. I also love the mystery in the story. I liked the Mallory wasn’t conceited or cocky with what she was. I also loved that we were given some of Jakob’s back story. I really loved how Jakob was concerned that he couldn’t get Mallory pregnant and his protectiveness although he went a little far on that . I would have liked more of Mallory and Jakob meeting and starting out together. I did feel that there didn’t need to be so many sex scenes in this book. I did chuckle while reading this book. I loved the characters and the ins and outs of this story and I recommend.

Unfortunately, this book was nothing spectacular and it was the same washed out story of all the other books in its genre.

I forgot how much I love paranormal detective novels. It reminded me a lot of the first Anita Blake books but with female friendships. The writing was captivating and the mysterious plot was so compelling that I could help but keep turning the pages. The characters were well developped with little quirks like loving Dr.Pepper. It was nice how the main characters life was already in progress at the beginning of the novel. Shes already discovered shes a Death Witch and working as a detective for the Paranormal Unit.

Our main character Mallory is the only known Death Witch and shes powerful but shes still humble which I really liked. Shes lost both parents and has already been married. After her husband died she packed up her whole life to move away to Baton Rouge and shes currently in another serious relationship with a powerful vampire named Jakob. I loved getting to know some of his back story. I was even frustrated right along with the main character when he was being overprotective.

I wish the author would write a book about when they first met and the sex witch case. I really liked her partner Danny and her witch friends. I was secretly shipping her with Anna the Fire Witch. The shopping spree the witches went on was a lot of fun. I enjoyed getting to know Mark and how Mallory was trying to make him more civilized. I loved that she brought him to the Dance club and that he hit it off with her friend Phoebe the spirit witch. Indigo, the chocolate shop owner and werejaguar, was also a great addition to the story.

I dont mind sex scenes but there was a lot of them in this book and it felt like it was unnecessary overkill. Ive been wanting to read more adult fantasy and sex scenes are to be expected but I feel like 6% was a little early to jump into one. Its a shame I didnt really get the Baton Rouge vibe in this book like I did in the Sookie Stackhouse series (one of my favorite vampire series by the way). I felt like the setting could have been anywhere in America, except maybe for the voodoo. I also didnt appreciate the use of the word whore.