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A review by jaimearkin
The Veil by Chloe Neill
4.0
3.5 rounding up!
I’m a huge fan of Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires series so I knew I was going to be grabbing this start of a new paranormal series immediately!
Set in a war torn New Orleans, Neill has made the setting itself a character in this story. Seven years ago, The Veil that separated the city from the paranormal world was opened and a war between the two worlds occurred. When the Veil was finally closed normal life was no more, all paranormals were imprisoned in a separate district and any kind of magic is outlawed.
Claire Connolly is just trying to live a quiet life taking care of the store her father left when he died. But she has a secret. She’s a Sensitive… a person who has magic abilities. She can’t reveal her secret to anyone because it would mean she’d be confined to Devil’s Isle.
Liam Quinn is a bounty hunter who doesn’t have time for a Sensitive who is untrained and can’t control herself, but he can’t deny a connection to Claire. When he sees her using her powers to help someone he offers to help her in return and provide the training she will need to survive in the new world.
As usual, Neill does an amazing job building the world her characters live in. While reading you’ll learn not only about the New Orleans that we know today, but the new city it’s become. That said, it kind of slows the pacing of the story… we spend a lot of time learning about what happened during the war and now after the war to make the city what it is today. I know it can’t be helped and I expect that in the coming books this won’t be as much of an issue because all the groundwork has been laid.
I really enjoy the characters that Neill creates. They’re always incredibly layered and interesting… and both Liam and Claire are that! And the sexual tension between these two!! I can’t tell you how often I thought “OMG JUST KISS ALREADY!” while reading this. I know once they get into relationship territory it’s going to be just plain amazing!
Neill always has done secondary characters so well… she makes them an integral part of her books and she definitely does that again here. I really liked Gunnar and Tadji… though definitely Gunnar more than Tadji, for some reason she just rubbed me the wrong way in a couple scenes. I’m hoping to learn more about them as the series progresses and connect to them a bit more. I’m also really excited to learn more about Liam’s family!
Of course there is an overarching story here that Liam and Claire need to work together to solve… Wraiths are turning up all over the city and attacking innocent people… but why and why are the big questions and the answers aren’t exactly what they were expecting!
Overall a great start to a new paranormal series from an author I love! If you don’t have this on your to read list, make sure you get it there asap! I think it’s going to be an amazing ride!
Thank you to Penguin/NAL for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest thoughts.
I’m a huge fan of Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires series so I knew I was going to be grabbing this start of a new paranormal series immediately!
Set in a war torn New Orleans, Neill has made the setting itself a character in this story. Seven years ago, The Veil that separated the city from the paranormal world was opened and a war between the two worlds occurred. When the Veil was finally closed normal life was no more, all paranormals were imprisoned in a separate district and any kind of magic is outlawed.
Claire Connolly is just trying to live a quiet life taking care of the store her father left when he died. But she has a secret. She’s a Sensitive… a person who has magic abilities. She can’t reveal her secret to anyone because it would mean she’d be confined to Devil’s Isle.
Liam Quinn is a bounty hunter who doesn’t have time for a Sensitive who is untrained and can’t control herself, but he can’t deny a connection to Claire. When he sees her using her powers to help someone he offers to help her in return and provide the training she will need to survive in the new world.
As usual, Neill does an amazing job building the world her characters live in. While reading you’ll learn not only about the New Orleans that we know today, but the new city it’s become. That said, it kind of slows the pacing of the story… we spend a lot of time learning about what happened during the war and now after the war to make the city what it is today. I know it can’t be helped and I expect that in the coming books this won’t be as much of an issue because all the groundwork has been laid.
I really enjoy the characters that Neill creates. They’re always incredibly layered and interesting… and both Liam and Claire are that! And the sexual tension between these two!! I can’t tell you how often I thought “OMG JUST KISS ALREADY!” while reading this. I know once they get into relationship territory it’s going to be just plain amazing!
Neill always has done secondary characters so well… she makes them an integral part of her books and she definitely does that again here. I really liked Gunnar and Tadji… though definitely Gunnar more than Tadji, for some reason she just rubbed me the wrong way in a couple scenes. I’m hoping to learn more about them as the series progresses and connect to them a bit more. I’m also really excited to learn more about Liam’s family!
Of course there is an overarching story here that Liam and Claire need to work together to solve… Wraiths are turning up all over the city and attacking innocent people… but why and why are the big questions and the answers aren’t exactly what they were expecting!
Overall a great start to a new paranormal series from an author I love! If you don’t have this on your to read list, make sure you get it there asap! I think it’s going to be an amazing ride!
Thank you to Penguin/NAL for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest thoughts.