A NIGHT OWL REVIEWS BOOK REVIEW | Reviewed by: Jessie
Sparks is the second book in the Anya Kaliczyk series from author Laura Bickle. From the first chapter, readers can tell that Laura can craft a wonderful storyline with vibrant paranormal elements, fresh dialogue and amazing characters.
I’m thrilled that this author did her research. Readers can really believe Anya is an arson investigator and now I know what wick effect theory and phospheinic farts means and can use it as trivia ice breakers at the next party.
Anya is fascinating as a skilled arson investigator and her abilities as a paranormal lantern make her an amazingly complex character. As much as this story is all about Anya, the secondary characters could carry their own books. I was especially fond of the morgue scenes with Gina and I hope there is more to find out about the mysterious Charon.
I’m ready to read the next installment in Anya’s life and until that book is released, I’m going to read the first in her series, Embers. For fans of the Paranormal Urban Fantasy genre with strong heroines, this book is worth reading and this author should stay on your radar.
Mar 07, 2011 | 9781439167687
5 - Rare Top Pick | 4.5 - Top Pick | 4 - I Liked It | 3.5 - Enjoyable | 3 - OK | 2.5 - It just didn't click
Book Blurb for Sparks
WITHOUT A TRACE Anya Kalinczyk is the rarest type of psychic medium, a Lantern, who holds down a day job as an arson investigator with the Detroit Fire Department—while working 24/7 to exterminate malicious spirits haunting a city plagued by unemployment and despair. Along with her inseparable salamander familiar, Sparky, Anya has seen, and even survived, all manner of fiery hell—but her newest case sparks suspicions of a bizarre phenomenon that no one but her eccentric team of ghost hunters might believe: spontaneous human combustion. After fire consumes the home of elderly Jasper Bernard, Anya is stunned to discover his remains—or, more precisely, a lack of them; even the fiercest fires leave some trace of their victims—and she is sure this was no naturally occurring blaze. Soon she’s unearthed a connection to a celebrity psychic who preys on Detroit’s poor, promising miracles for money. But Hope Solomon wants more—she’s collecting spirits, and in a frantic race against time, Anya will face down an evil adversary who threatens her fragile relationship with her lover, her beloved Sparky’s freshly hatched newts, and the wandering souls of the entire city.
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