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Evil Embers (Vale Investigation Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Cristelle Comby (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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He’s cleaning out the city’s last monsters. But has he just rubbed a Jinn the wrong way?

PI Bellamy Vale never wants to see another magical beast for the rest of his near-immortal life. Exhausted from hard days and long nights taking out the supernatural trash for Lady McDeath, he’s relieved to get a simple missing persons case. But when he learns his new employer is from the otherworld and pursued by a spirit intent on enslaving the planet, Vale fears eternal life isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.

Hunting down clues, Vale finds himself embroiled in an evil high-fashion scheme as he tries to catch slippery, body-hopping Jinns. And with the missing woman and two of his friends stitched up in the action, if this dangerous plot gets off the catwalk and into closets, the world is doomed.

Can the tired detective recharge his skills for one last attempt to save humanity?

Evil Embers is the second book in the action-packed Vale Investigation urban fantasy series. If you like paranormal mysteries, Arabian mythology, and a heavy helping of snark, then you’ll love Cristelle Comby’s gripping tale.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07MD2Z7ZV
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (March 15, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 15, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3172 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 316 pages

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Cristelle Comby was born and raised in the French-speaking area of Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva, where she still resides.

She attributes to her origins her ever-peaceful nature and her undying love for chocolate. She has a passion for art, which also includes an interest in drawing and acting.

She is the author of the Neve & Egan Cases series, which features an unlikely duo of private detectives in London: Ashford Egan, a blind History professor, and Alexandra Neve, one of his students.

Currently, she is hard at work on her Urban Fantasy series Vale Investigation which chronicles the exploits of Death’s only envoy on Earth, PI Bellamy Vale, in the fictitious town of Cold City, USA.

The first novel in the series, Hostile Takeover, won the 2019 Independent Press Award in the Urban Fantasy category.

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Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2019

This is the second book in the Vale Investigation urban fantasy series, but although my reading might have been a bit richer had I read the first book in the series (an omission I plan to rectify as soon as possible), I had no trouble following the book or the characters. There was some elements of the world building I felt I would understand better had I read the first book (and I would love to hear how Bel become Death’s supernatural detective), but I love these characters! We get to meet some interesting characters from the other side of a portal that apparently opened in book one. One group is really awesome… the other group, not so much.

The story starts off with a bang and doesn’t slow down. I also really enjoyed the supporting cast and could well see this on the big screen. What an exciting thrill-ride that would be!

Although the book kept me on the edge of my seat, there were also some humorous moments – mostly in the dialogue between Bel and.. well, everyone… and the way Eli learns about life in Cold City. I don’t want to say more about that because of the fear of spoilers, but Eli and his sister are among some of my favorite characters.

I have bought book one and am anxiously looking forward to the next book in the series. Kudo, Ms. Comby!

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Lisabet Sarai

Deliciously creative urban fantasy

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2019

Private investigator Bellamy Vale is a man who knows too much – specifically too much about the dark supernatural forces that exist in parallel with our ordinary world, and which occasionally spill over the boundaries into the light of day. He has just finished mopping up after an apocalyptic rift in the fabric of reality that released incalculable evil – and incidentally leveled the entire downtown area of Cold City in the process. Now all that Bell wants is a shower to wash off the ectoplasmic goo, two aspirin for his painful bruises, and some sleep.

Instead he gets a new client, a cadaverous gentleman with an unusually acute sense of smell who wants Bell’s help to find his missing sister. The PI is pretty sure there’s something weird about this guy, but the client has cold cash, and his story stirs Bell’s sympathy. As the two pursue the slender leads they have available, Bellamy learns that Eli Smith and his sister Sarit are both djinn, and that the hot shot fashion designer who has kidnapped her is the vessel for an ifrit, an ageless evil being whom the djinn have been battling for eons.

This is definitely not what Bell signed on for, but what can he do? It’s his destiny to fight creatures of darkness – and to hide the fact that such creatures exist from the mortals around him, including his girlfriend, Police Sergeant Melanie Ramirez.

Evil Embers is a lively, surprising urban fantasy with an engaging hero. I really appreciated Cristelle Comby’s creativity. She brings all sorts of supernatural elements into the mix: Middle Eastern demons, Greek gods, Cherokee shamans, ghosts, poltergeist, zombies... honestly, you never know what you’re going to run into in Cold City!

Superficially Vale is modeled after the classic cynical and hard-boiled PI of noir detective novels, but in fact he’s got a soft heart and a strong moral compass. He hates the fact that he has to lie to his girlfriend. He hates even more the way this destroys his relationship. However, he has no choice For one thing, his soul is more or less owned by Lady Death, who has promised him he won’t die as long as he does her errands. This enigmatic femme fatale (quite literally!) only shows up twice in the book, but those were my favorite scenes. I also greatly enjoyed the character of Zian, the computer whiz who’s the estranged son of Hermes, Messenger of the Gods.

I had two complaints about the book. First, I had a hard time following the (many) fight scenes. Maybe I wasn’t paying close enough attention, or maybe they weren’t described clearly, but I found myself becoming confused.

Second, the book needed better editing. I noted multiple grammar errors (mostly related to verb tense) as well as some incorrect word usage. It’s possible these problems might not catch the attention of the average reader, but since I’m also an editor, I couldn’t help but notice.

Neither of these issues spoiled what was for the most part a very entertaining read. If you like magic in myriad forms, you’ll likely enjoy Evil Embers.

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Sylvia

Excellent book. !!!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2019

This is an excellent book. I really enjoyed it , well written, easy to read ,page turner, great characters. Good job . I received a free copy of this book and voluntarily left a review.

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Brian J. Mullen

Ignore Vale's military service and it's a good book

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2021

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Evil Embers is well-written, the mythological elements are well-researched and presented well. The action moves quickly and makes for a good over-all book. I know maybe I shouldn't get caught up on this but I did. Here's my hang-up. As a veteran of the US Air Force I had the opportunity to learn and train with both the Navy and Army at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS and at Ft. Huachuca in Sierra Vista, AZ; training in Electronics at the former and Intelligence at the latter. While I'm not an expert on every aspect of Naval training, I know enough to know that virtually none of the skills he attributes to his Naval training would he have received in the Navy, at least not in any of the career fields he would be in as a standard seaman. If he was a SEAL? Sure, that is very possible (see the next book) but he's not. It is possible he was MA and received some of that training, but it would not cover the full gamut of skills he attributes to his time in the
Navy.
There is also the sin where near the end of the book where he refers to being a marine. A marine is not in the Navy, a seaman is not in the Marines. This is incredibly important. So many of his core attributes are grounded in his time in the Navy and his training he received there that it sours parts of the book for me. I gave the first book in the series a 4, hoping that aspects of the oversight related to his naval training would be corrected in future books but they weren't.

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