Rating:  4.5⭐️

Honestly, still thinking about the rating because the book and female character is so strange but I’m getting into it,as weirdly great as it is. 

And she and the world is plenty different. Mostly it’s her, Daphne, she’s plenty different, with two voices in her head, enough trauma to fill several oceans, and deadly skill sets that are still being revealed. Along with her pasts that were spent in other realms, alien hellish ones as a lost child. 

There’s the suspicious deadly brain Daphne, absolutely bloodthirsty. Then there’s heart Daphne, naive, obsessive, wanting to think better of others (even though she knows that they are evil).  The conflict between these two is constantly ongoing and a real conversation.

Yes it takes time to get into this mess of a character and her situation but stick with it, she and the book is worth it. 

Because the surprises will come nonstop as well.  

Hignett does an excellent job with such a complicated character like Daphne, a wolf shifter who’s so severely traumatized by the years of abuse and sheer brutality of wandering through alien realms as a small child trying to escape and get home that her personality seems splintered. Or is it?

Each new encounter show the reader more of who she might be, whether she’s valiantly trying to make it through the day as a paranormal social worker, climbing over drugged vampires, and dealing with cranky co workers, or just barely staving off the darkness and nightmares of the past that constantly threatens her sanity. And it’s terrifying.

From her hair that used to be brown, but has become lavender upon her return to the human world.  Then there are here friends who have followed her to Philadelphia. 

A goose, Dwayne who’s a God of Anarchy, a sort of grandmother a renowned “Countess Ebadorathea Greenwood, world class villain sorceress maybe, for starters. 

Plus she’s on a mission of revenge after she gets settled in her new job, helping the unwanted, the troubled supernatural children of The Hidden City of Philadelphia, where those who are unwanted or considered trash go. 

I got more and more convinced of her and the raw tragedy of those around her. That’s there something so frightening about her that she’s become a walking daily affirmation, trying to keep herself positive, and often failing. 

Daphne has become a fascinating puzzle of a great character. I can’t wait to see what she brings to the future and The Hidden City next. 

Highly recommended. 

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Hidden City Supernatural Sleuth:

The Wolf Vs The Vampire #1

The Wolf Vs The Warlock #2

The Wolf Vs The Shifter #3

The Wolf Vs The Witch #4

The Wolf Vs The Monster #5

The Wolf Vs Santa: A Little Christmas Mystery

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Blurb 

Everyone thinks I’m sweet and innocent… but I’m the one who ate the big bad wolf.

I’ve been searching for a place that feels like home my whole life, and I think I’ve found it. I’m in the big city, on a mission to save vulnerable supernatural kids — just like I used to be — in my new job as an Otherworld Child Protection Caseworker.

Because after our magical apocalypse, there are a lot of kids that need saving. I just need to avoid Romeo Zarayan, the Lord of Shadows and heir to the Jupiter fortune.

He’s also the Warlock who murdered my Aunt. One day, when I’m strong enough, I’ll get my revenge.

When one of my clients — a girl with strange-smelling blood — goes missing, the hunt takes me a little too close to the Warlock for comfort. If I want to save my client, I’ll have to set aside my quest for vengeance and work with him.

But if I get the chance, I’ll kill him.

If he doesn’t kill me first…

The Wolf Vs The Vampire is book one in the Hidden City Supernatural Sleuth, a hot new Urban Fantasy series by bestselling author Lauretta Hignett.

Connected Universe and crossover characters:

The start with 

🔹Imogen Gray series: 

Immortal Ghost (freebie prequel novella) Immortal 

Immortal Games 

Immortal World 

Immortal Life 

Immortal Death 

🔹Then follow Sandy in the 

Foils and Fury series 

Oops I Ate A Vengeance Demon Dancing With The Vengeance Demon 

Dating With The Vengeance Demon Dying For My Vengeance Demon 

🔹Then go on with Prue’s story with the 

Blood and Magic Series. 

Bad Bones 

Bare Bones 

Broke Bones 

Blood & Bones 

Burned Bones 

Bitter Bones 

🔹Head on into Chloe’s series, 

The Waif in the Wilds. 

The Waif in the Wilds (freebie prequel novella) Vicious Creatures 

Fractured Gods 

Ravenous Beasts  

Savage Daemons 

Duck Duck Motherf* cker (freebie epilogue novella in Dwayne’s POV)”

“🔹And then Daphne’s story in the Hidden City Supernatural Sleuth:

The Wolf Vs The Vampire #1

The Wolf Vs The Warlock #2

The Wolf Vs The Shifter #3

The Wolf Vs The Witch #4

The Wolf Vs The Monster #5

The Wolf Vs Santa: A Little Christmas Mystery

🔹And detour into a Paranormal Woman’s Fiction series. 

Susan, You’re The Chosen One 

It’s Called Magic, Susan 

Susan, Break The Curse! 

You Can’t Fight A Prophecy, Susan