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Thrall (Blood Trails Book 8) by [Jennifer Blackstream]

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Village witch turned PI Shade Renard receives her latest case from a most unlikely source in this pulse-pounding installment of USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Blackstream’s latest urban fantasy series.

The dream sorceress who once tried to kill Shade is after her again—

To hire her.

An evil being from the astral plane is building an empire in the physical world. One of his victims sought sanctuary with Arianne—and was turned away. When that same poor soul is murdered, a shocking revelation exposes personal stakes for Cleveland’s most powerful sorceress.

Now Arianne wants Shade’s help to hunt down the killer—and the thralls who serve him. But Arianne isn’t the only danger from Shade’s short, but eventful career as a PI that’s making a reappearance.

Shade soon finds herself playing deadly games of cat and mouse with enemies old and new. To make matters even more complicated, she must also navigate awkward alliances with a persistent masochistic goblin and a tempting, but off-limits alpha werewolf.

Being a village witch was simple. Being a private investigator? Not so much…

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September 22, 2020
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08F3Y8Y4J
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skeleton Key Publishing (September 22, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 22, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1981 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 374 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B08SPF5GV4
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #191,764 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #9,648 in Paranormal & Urban Fantasy (Kindle Store)
- #12,168 in Paranormal & Urban Fantasy (Books)

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Jennifer Blackstream

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Jennifer Blackstream is a USA Today bestselling author of urban fantasy and paranormal romance. She is amazed and grateful to have made a writing career out of a Master’s degree in Psychology, hours of couch-detecting watching Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, and endless research into mythology and fairy tales. She firmly believes that whether it’s a village witch deciding she wants to be a private investigator, or a single mother having a go at being a full time writer, it’s never too late for a new adventure.

A fervent devotee of cooperative board games, Jennifer sets aside at least two nights a week for team-based adventures such as Mice & Mystics, Sentinels of the Multiverse, or Harry Potter: Battle at Hogwarts. She uses games with dice-based mechanics to lure in her ridiculously lucky-rolling son and daughter in the hope that they too will develop a passion for cooperative escapism.

Jennifer currently has three series going:

BLOOD PRINCE SERIES (PARANORMAL ROMANCE, COMPLETE):

Book 1 – Before Midnight

Book 2 – One Bite

Book 3 – Golden Stair

Book 4 – Divine Scales

Book 5 – Beautiful Salvation

Bonus Adventures in the Blood Prince World:

Book 2.5 – What Big Teeth You Have (free when you sign up for mailing list mentioned below)

Book 4.5 – The Pirate’s Witch

Book 5.5 – Dead to Begin With

BLOOD REALM SERIES (PARANORMAL ROMANCE, IN PROGRESS SPIN-OFF OF BLOOD PRINCE SERIES):

Book 1 – All for a Rose

Book 2 – Blue Voodoo

Book 3 – The Archer

Book 4 – Bear With Me

Book 5 – Stolen Wish

BLOOD TRAILS SERIES (URBAN FANTASY, ONGOING)

Book 0.5 – Temptation

Book 1 – Deadline

Book 2 – Monster

Book 3 – Taken

Book 4 – Corruption

Book 5 – Mercenary

Book 6 – Caged

Book 7 – Betrayal

Book 8 – Thrall

Book 9 – Conviction

Book 10 – Misdirection

You can receive Temptation (Blood Trails 0.5) and What Big Teeth You Have (Blood Prince 2.5) free when you sign up for my mailing list at https://www.jenniferblackstream.com/newsletter/

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Maghon Thomas

Yesssssssss!!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2020

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FINALLY!!! Ok, so on a serious note, this is probably my favorite book series. Possibly ever. That says a lot because I have a lot of love for books and the urban fantasy/paranormal genre. But seriously, this series has gripped in a way that I literally NEED the next book... now I won’t do spoilers because I hate when that happens, but i will give hints lol. When one thing that I’ve been waiting for finally happened I literally yelled with a fist punch to the air. If you’ve read the series this far, you know everyone has been waiting for it. And that ending, oh that ending has given me physical feelings. But, enough of that.

Shade found herself in a tight spot with this particular case. And her little injury at the beginning has made things even more complicated than even she realized to continue to work against something that you can’t see. Shade has grown so much since the beginning, and yes it’s been a wonderful evolution. And that other shoe that you always know will drop- yeah it just got flung through a window, crossed a street, and hit someone smack in the face. It dropped big time.

To readers interested in this series that hasn’t started- do yourself a favor and start ASAP. To everyone like me who loves this series- are you guys as pumped up as I am?! Because WOOOOOOO!!!! And to the author- thank you! Thank you for writing something that gives me this much enthusiasm and love for reading! I’d tell you to hurry up and gimme the next booo right now- but don’t. You’re damn good at what you do and you can’t rush awesome! Please don’t stop writing!! All I can say is YESSSSS!!!! This book gets high fives and lots of stars and a serious awesome from me!!

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Alice M. and Norm White

"Social justice" shovelled on thick. Sad.

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2020

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Save the "social justice" for non fiction. This was such a fun series and now it is just pathetically dripping with left wing "social justice" propaganda. Sad. I read fiction to escape the never ending wash of biased and opinionated faux news the world is sloshing around in. Not to have opinions crammed at me. I goes heavily toward causing me to turn away from those aggressive opinion mongers and their agendas. Either quit trying to write fiction and start dabbling in opinion reporting or go back to telling fun and interesting stories. Bleh. Not buying the bext book, not even for Peasblossom. Sad.

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Mamapeachie

This is another fantastic story in the Blood Trails series of books.

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2020

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I couldn't wait to continue on with the Blood Trails books. Jennifer Blackstream is one of my favorite Paranormal/Urban Fantasy writers and this series keeps me on my toes, big time! The world of Shade Renard is basically non-stop action. There are tons of characters to try to keep straight and Jennifer does a good job of dropping clues here and there on certain characters as they pop up but I really enjoy seeing some of the people from some of her other series' make a special appearance here and there.

This book took place over a fairly short time frame as lots of the Blood Trails books do but I really enjoy it when Liam makes an appearance and he is a big part of this book. If I had the time to devote to it (but alas, I have a ton of other books on my "to be read" list) I would go back to the beginning and re-read every one of Jennifer's books and enjoy them as much or more than I did the first time.

Upon reading other reviews I saw that some people complained about too much social justice involved in this story but that's not the first thing that I got out of the book, though it probably was more notable in this book than other ones. I think that it had a lot to do with the nature of the problem at the basis of this story than some of the other things that Shade is confronted with.

If you haven't read any of Jennifer Blackstream's stories I would urge you to get started. Her background in witches and otherworldly creatures and their place in our culture and stories is just amazing.

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Wow, politics even in my books

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2020

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So I was a fan of these books but every book becomes more and more social justice warrior. Calling a woman miss ms or Mrs is a sign of respect and not meant to be anything but that. Of course there was a ton of other stuff in here and honestly I read books to get away I don't want to read about the crap that's going on in the world inside a book that's supposed to be fiction. I'm just done..

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nlondonhousewife

Strong heroine and good world building

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2020

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The storyline remains decent, making progress and building more detail to relationships and the world around the main characters.
We seem to be creeping ever closer to the secrets buried in the main characters past.

DAWN

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2020

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Love this book series. Can’t wait for the next one

Book wyrm

The development continues

Reviewed in the Netherlands on September 30, 2020

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I love this series, and this book lives up to my expectations. We get back to Shade partnering with werewolf detective Liam instead of FBI agent Andy. Actually I really like Liam, and the partnership and character development is great. You can see the characters grow. And of course there is maguc action, fights, crazy creepy goblins, snarky pixies and much more. This story us both a who dunnit as well as actionpacked. It's fastpaced but still with depth. I loved how we learn more about Arianna as well.

Nicole L. Kostevc

Disappointed ☹️

Reviewed in Australia on October 19, 2020

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So I absolutely love this series and look forward to every new book. I was however disappointed to see divisive SJW rhetoric clumsily made to fit into Thrall... it was completely unexpected and I’m now left feeling sad and disappointed. If SJW rhetoric had been layered on this thick in the first book of the series, I’d never have bought the next... I honestly don’t know if I will buy another book... it doesn’t feel as though my money would be welcome anyway because I’m of Caucasian ancestry & don’t believe I’m privileged because of it.

As a historian hobbyist, I actually care about history and loathe the way SJWs conveniently leave out truths that Not one culture no matter their “skin colour” is exempt from colonialism or attempted Colonialism as well as the atrocities of slavery. We are letting ourselves be turned into pawns by Grifters, our governments and global elitists whose true agenda is frightening. While there is much wrong with the world, creating a boogeyman and blaming them for all the world’s problems is not only ignorant, it’s dangerous and alarmingly familiar to terrible past events. We should come together and not judge people because of the skin they were born in. You don’t fight racism with racism.