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Rating: really liked it
The book overall was really good but a little slow starting.
4.5 stars rounded up.
Rating: really liked it
When an old vampire who fought for the South in the Civil War notices some of the ghosts in Atlanta are disappearing he calls in Lex to investigate. She agrees but immediately upon arrival is confronted with some attitudes she can't tolerate.
She finds herself not only investigating the missing ghosts but butting heads with the vampire who called her and the community of witches that work for him.
Boundary Haunted is great. It's an entertaining page turner and honestly I think anyone who loves UF will love this series. I've struggled with Melissa F. Olson's
Scarlett Bernard series. Every now and then I'll pick one up and read it but I still haven't read them all and I'm honestly not in any rush to. But the
Boundary Magic series is on my preorder list. I always know when the next is coming out and it's always on my Kindle the day it's released.
Rating: really liked it
Boundary Haunted reminded me why I love Melissa F. Olson’s storytelling!
Lex is suffering from a form a PTSD, after a physic attack leaves her reeling a previous installment. So, when her boss, Maven, asks her to go to Atlanta to help another vampire, Beau Calhoun with a ghost problem, Lex is conflicted. Ghosts are disappearing and its up to Lex and her boundary magic to find them, the same magic she is now afraid to us.
Lex is left surfing through a city filled with ghosts, human interference, witch magic and a difficult vampire on her own, until Maven sends her Tobias.
I found
Boundary Haunted highly engaging, with lots of action, intense situations and an amazing original plot that DELIVERS the wow factor every urban fantasy reader is looking for!
I received this ARC copy of
Boundary Haunted from 47North. This is my honest and voluntary review.
Boundary Haunted is set for publication Dec. 3, 2019.
My Rating: 5 stars
Written by: Melissa Olson
Series: Boundary Magic (Book 5)
Paperback: 317 pages
Publisher: 47North (December 3, 2019)
ISBN-10: 1542000041
ISBN-13: 978-1542000048
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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Rating: really liked it
Boundary Haunted
Boundary Magic, Book 5
By: Melissa F. Olson
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
Our Boundary Witch is asked to help an elder vampire. Seems someone is taking the spirits that are around items of the Civil War and other items of his personal collection. These are some spirits he knew, and family! He wants to find out who is doing this and stop them. Then when they are showing her around and explaining the situation, a bomb goes off. A bomb only partly of this world! Now she has to deal with this too! Great twist, turns, magic, action, vamps, and new characters.
The narration really added to the story!
Rating: really liked it
I was looking for something in the fantasy genre, and the cover of “Boundary Haunted” caught my eye. Not having read any of the first four books in the Boundary Magic series, I wasn’t sure what to expect. As the series seemed well received by other readers, I decided to take a chance.
The main part of the story is a standalone, and it is understandable that there will be a certain amount of backstory. Fans of the series may have appreciated the numerous information dumps in the beginning, but as a new reader to Melissa F. Olson’s series, it was disruptive. The bits of knowledge that had nothing to do with the main story as well as all the names mentioned went on for chapters, and more than once I thought about setting the book down. The plot was strong to carry the book, however, and once I got past the beginning it became a fast and interesting read until the final confrontation, which was a bit rocky in both the dialogue and description.
Ms. Olson’s treatment of an overused theme today (supernatural beings all getting along while remaining hidden from “normal” society) was helped by the concepts of power within that world as well as the differences between boundary witches and other types of magic users. The world-building was the author’s five-star element.
To me, the book falls (mood-wise) somewhere between a cozy mystery and a dark and chilling horror story. I usually don’t mind if a writer chooses to pepper the dialogue with obscenities, though I thought the mood and style made the constant dropping of f-bombs unnecessary as the continual use added nothing of value to the book.
I am sure regular fans will find this to be a fitting end to the series. While there were enough positives to keep me reading all the way to the end, there were enough negatives for me to rate it no higher than three stars.
My thanks to NetGalley and 47North for a complimentary electronic copy of this book.
Rating: really liked it
$1.99 Kindle sale, March 1, 2020.
Rating: really liked it
Still struggling with nightmares after the psychic attack she suffered after the last book, Allison “Lex” Luther travels to Atlanta, Georgia, to fulfill the request of help from the vampire cardinal Abner Beaumont "Beau" Calhoun. Apparently, Beau’s ghosts are missing, and since Lex is a boundary witch, Beau thinks that she can help finding them. Lex is reluctant at first, until her twin-sister Sam, tells Lex in her dream that she is needed. So off Lex goes to the South, alone this time.
It was nice seeing Lex out of Boulder, Colorado, although at the same time, I missed her gang: Quinn, Simon, and Lily. Quinn cannot travel to Atlanta due to ‘family circumstances’ while Simon and Lily are still dealing with the death of their mother. So, it feels like Lex doesn’t have enough back-up this time.
The whole
Unsettled ghost of the war in the South is an interesting concept. It’s good that Lex learns more about boundary witch power and history, as well as type of ghosts while she’s in Atlanta. However, there are not a lot of progress – in my opinion – regarding Maven’s plan for the Old World. Being set in Atlanta,
Boundary Haunted feels slightly like a slight detour from the main arc.
Having said that, it’s still a great book to read; that epilogue is sweet! I wish that I could read the next book
now.
The ARC is provided by the publisher via Netgalley for an exchange of fair and honest review. No high rating is required for any ARC received.
Rating: really liked it
I hope this isn't the last
Boundary Magic book. I've enjoyed this series and want more. Olson has created an interesting magical world and populated it with great characters. Her plots are well thought out and exciting. I really like how she continues to expand her magical world, building on what we already know in logical and interesting ways.
In
Boundary Haunted, Lex goes to Atlanta to help the cardinal vampire there with a ghost problem. Still suffering PTSD symptoms from her overwhelming encounter with ghostly remnants in the previous books, she's reluctant to help, especially since Quinn can't go with her. Once in Atlanta, she finds out that the problem is that large numbers of ghosts are missing. She also learns that these ghosts are a type she didn't know about, called the unsettled. Beau, the cardinal vampire, believes someone is trying to hurt him, and perhaps his niece Odessa. Beau can see ghosts because he is from a family of Boundary witches, although they have not been active witches for many generations.
The plot picks up speed quickly and is almost as much about Lex coming to terms with her fears as finding the culprit behind the disappearing ghosts. While the mystery/suspense plot for this book is solved, we are still left with some questions from the previous book, so I'm hopeful we'll get to see more in this series in the future.
As before, Kate Rudd has done a great job with the narration. I've really enjoyed these books on audio.
Rating: really liked it
While I greatly enjoyed this entire series, this 5th book in the Boundary Magic series was just awesome. Being from the South and having spent a lot of time in the Atlanta area, I could imagine much of the scenery and of course in my mind, Beau, the Atlanta cardinal vampire, has this wonderful old southern accent that I could hear as I read. The setting, culture, and old Civil War history was done perfectly. I was pleasantly surprised at the accuracy as I have visited many of the landmarks in the book and it was spot on. Lex really shined in this book despite all the obstacles in her path. I have enjoyed all of these Old World stories and would love for there to be more!
Rating: really liked it
Boundary Haunted is the fifth book of the Boundary Magic series by Melissa F. Olson. In this book, Allison goes down to Atlanta and deals with missing Civil War ghosts.
I liked this book a lot and thought it was very good. It was nice to see Lex go to Atlanta. I liked Lex a lot as a character.
Will have to read the other books in the series to get caught up. This is the first book I read of the series.
I received an ARC copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Rating: really liked it
What an awesome book and series.
I love the style of this authors writing for Lex it's just so funny and really helps you stay connect to lex an how she thinks for example :She gives me a look like I accused her of farting in public not forgetting that any time soon.
Lex is a straight shooter and dosn't like to waste time on games and dancing around the subject especially when trying to get to the bottom of something ,which a love an I think people either love her or hate because of this.
Rating: really liked it
I really enjoyed this book. I liked how Lex has to take herself out of her comfort zone on this assignment and deal with things she's not really used to. The history woven into this story was an added bonus. As I was reading this, I could picture the places like I was there along side the characters
Rating: really liked it
Brilliant bookWell this book certainly kept me gripped, I couldn't put it down until I'd finished reading it. Lex has to find out why spirits are disappearing and who is making spirit bottles. She gets shot at and someone tried to poison her. There is plenty of action in this book and witches, vampires and a werewolf.
Rating: really liked it
Such a great series. Lex travels in this one, but great new characters, a bit of a mystery, new information on boundary magic...
Rating: really liked it
The Boundary Magic series has become my favourite series by Melissa Olson. Reading "Boundary Haunted", the fifth book of the series, was like settling in to watch a new series of a favourite show: I knew it would pull me back into a familiar world, with rules I understood and characters I cared about, and I trusted that it would surprise me with something new that moves all the characters along. It gave me a couple of days of solid entertainment and still left me hungry for more.
Part of the appeal is that I like Lex, the ex-soldier who discovered late in life that she was a Boundary Witch when she kept coming back from the dead, because, apart from being able to wield magic that allows her to press vampires, interact with ghosts, kill with a thought or raise the dead, she's a down-to-earth person, doing the best she can. She's tough but not invulnerable. She carries the scars of her past experiences with her and she tries to do what needs to be done.
My enjoyment was enhanced by the fact that "Boundary Haunted" takes Lex out of the now-familiar context of Boulder, Colorado and takes her to Atalanta, Georgia, which is pretty much like moving her to another planet. "The Old World" (vampires, witches, werewolves) here is very different from either Boulder or Los Angeles.
Melissa Olson makes very effective use of the huge scale of killing that took place in Atlanta during the Civil War history to get Lex involved with large numbers of a new type of ghost. She also builds a twisty mystery for Lex to solve about who it is who is attacking the ghosts and, via them, the Cardinal Vampire, who is a Confederate veteran. I became engrossed as Lex came to terms with the culture and personalities in the Atlanta Old World and slowly unmasked the threat to them.
As usual, Kate Rudd does a great job as the narrator of the series. Click on the SoundCloud link below to hear a sample.
https://soundcloud.com/brilliance-aud...
