Format: Paperback, 316 pages
Release Date: January 14, 2020
Publisher: Te Da Media
Source: Publisher
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Cold-blooded kidnappers. Long-lost magic. When things get serious, she goes full Sherlock.
Ashira Cohen takes pride in being the only female private investigator in Vancouver. With her skills, her missing persons case should be a piece of cake.
She wasn’t counting on getting bashed in the skull, revealing a hidden tattoo and supernatural powers she shouldn’t possess.
Or the bitter icing on top: a spree of abductions and terrifying ghostly creatures on a deadly bender.
And don’t even get her started on the golems.
Reluctantly partnered with her long-time nemesis Levi, the infuriating leader of the magic community, Ash resolves to keep her focus on the clue trail and off their sexual tension because WTF is up with that?
But with a mastermind organization pulling strings from the shadows and Levi’s arrogance driving her to pick out his body bag, can Ash rescue the captives and uncover the truth or will the next blood spilled be her own?
Blood & Ash is the epic first novel in The Jezebel Files. If you like headstrong heroines, complex mysteries, and a dash of red-hot romance, you’ll love Deborah Wilde’s laugh out loud tale.
Blood & Ash, by author Deborah Wilde, is the first installment in the authors Jezebel Files series. 28-year old Ashira Cohen is the only female private investigator in Vancouver along with her best friend Priya Khairi. As a supposed non-Nefesh, or non-magic user, she's forbidden from taking any magical cases. When
she takes on a missing person case, unregistered Nefesh kid, she feels it will be an easy case. After taking a blow to the head, a hidden tattoo is revealed
and, much to her amazement and shock, she finds that she has supernatural powers.
Ash apparently had a ward put on her after an accident when she was a teenager. This doesn't go over well with the House of Pacifica and its leader Levi Montefiore since he and Ash have had a running fight since they were kids. Levi believes that Ash has had magic the entire time and arrests her for suspicion of being a rogue magic user. All magic users are supposed to register with their local Houses like Pacifica. What's worse, Ash's mother belongs to a group known as the Untainted Party who has a dislike for Nefesh and wants to keep them in check or eliminated altogether.
Apparently, her father had the ability to charm people. Things get interesting in the story when a spree of abductions and terrifying ghostly creatures go on a deadly bender. Ash, it seems, might have the ability to drive the creatures away but it isn't until much later in the story that we learn why and what her powers are called. To say that Ash might be the most dangerous character in this world, would be apt. Ash also resorts to her snarky attitude to keep her sane. Reluctantly
partnered with her long-time nemesis Levi, the infuriating leader of
the magic community, Ash resolves to keep her focus on the clue trail
and off their sexual tension.
Wilde combines hard boiled noir and Jewish folklore in this action-packed series opening. There are several secondary & tertiary characters who make this book more interesting, especially the Queen of Hearts, Meryem, and Miles Berenbaum. This is my first attempt at reading a series by this author. I've heard that her previous series was based on Jewish mythology and this one also hints that the origins of magic go back to Sodom and Gomorrah. One of the things this series needs to resolve quickly is Ash's issues with her mother and father otherwise, it will drag down the series.
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