Book Review | May Day (Seekers, #1) by Josie Jaffrey

 

Murder, Mystery and Vampires… Um, hell yeah! That’s exactly what I signed up for and that’s what I got!


Not only is Josie Jaffrey is a new-to-me author but venturing into a series that is not centred around the Romance genre was a new experience as well and I thoroughly enjoyed it.


Two worlds existing parallel to each other, the vampires have lived amidst the humans for centuries, the latter, barring a few of the elites, completely unaware of the supernatural creatures and their world of rules and regulations. The vampires live in a hierarchy and social scale every vampire has a role to play.


Since this is a mystery, I don’t want to go into the plot and reveal something, that might seem insignificant to me. However, and I need to point this out, Ms Jaffrey has created an amazing plot with a very diverse set of characters. If a character is black, you know they are black and if a character is bisexual (Jack) or homosexual (Cam) you are aware of that from the moment they are introduced to the reader. There is no glossing over or a one-time mention in the middle of nowhere, only for the reader to not remember what is important to the characters and the image that is formed.


The writing is descriptive and the story is fast-paced, not allowing the reader to drop the book mid-sentence or end of a chapter as there is quite a lot of things happening.
Not one chapter felt like a filler or a scene felt out of place. Every single scene tied together so well, allowing me to follow the story the way it was intended to as opposed to me scrambling back and forth like a headless chicken trying to make sense of the things that were playing out. Every character, main and side, had a role to play and they all played it well.


The plot is an engaging mix of mystery peppered with romantic drama (a personal favourite) creating quite the tension between Jack and her two potential love interests — Baron Killian Drake and Dr Tabitha Ross.


Ms Jaffrey, while taking the reader on a murder mystery soling spree, left quite a few open plots that instead of leaving me unsatisfied (like they usually do) made me curious and left me wanting to know how it will be dealt with in the next book! (So so so freaking excited for that one!!)


Ending the story on a cliffhanger has let me wanting — wanting to know what is going to happen and how my favourite ever-rebellious vampire Jack Valentine face the upcoming challenges!



PS. I’m shipping Jack and Killian SO FREAKING HARD because, and I honestly have one word or it — C.H.E.M.I.S.T.R.Y!!!!!