A review by billies_not_so_secret_diary
Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall

funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

 Iron & Velvet 
by Alexia Hall 
Paranormal Fantasy 
Sexually explicit 
Scribd Audio 

A female private investigator whose main clients are paranormal, but she won't work for vampires until the right price is offered. There was a murder and she was hired to find out who did it. 

Very similar to other paranormal series, but this one has a lot more 'funnies'. Some of the one-liners, and snarky comments got me laughing, a few snorts, and quite a few eye rolls. It gave life to an almost overdone plotline. 

This is supposed to be book one of a series, but there was so much 'backstory', that I felt as if this wasn't the first book, and even doubled checked to make sure this wasn't some type of spin-off. 

Though, copying lines/ideas from other works, like 'horse and hound,' bothered me because it's playing on the copyright infringement lines. But if credit had been given to where it was from, then it wouldn't have bothered me. 

Some of the phrases, like 'here lies Kate Kane...' while were funny at the beginning and changed throughout, did get a little irritating after being repeated so many times. And there were a few paragraphs where a word was repeated more than twice. 

Even though I liked the story: the world, plot, and the characters, I doubt I'll read any more of this series. There's too much porn for me. I figured there was going to be some from the blurb, but there are some very sexually explicit scenes, and I don't have time to skip the audio. I don't want to listen/read about it. So don't let your kids read this! 

It's disappointing that authors are starting to avoid labeling their works honestly, but there are so many books out there that the retailers don't have the manpower to call them out. (But then again it makes them a lot of money and they can deny knowledge when a reader finally calls it out.) So I have to take a star away for the dishonesty. It's a heavy fine, but just. 

2 Stars 
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