Mixed Feelings (Empathy in the Preternatural PNW #1) by Olivia R. Burton

Introduction

Mixed Feelings was gifted to me by the author in exchange for an honest and fair review.

Genre /Intended audience

Urban Fantasy / Adult

Narration

First person, past tense as told by the main character Gwen Arthur

Characters Gwen Arthur - main character, an empath and therapist

Chloe - Gwen’s assistant, a human

Sonny - Gwen’s pet bird

Mel Somerset - a werewolf private investigator

Merrin Smith - a seer

Evadne - a fairy living with Merrin

Dirk - a vampire

Nysgrogh - a demon

Setting

Current Seattle, preternatural humans, werewolves, vampires, and fae exist but are not known of generally

Plot

Gwen Author is a fairly ordinary therapist practicing in Seattle. Ordinary except for her talent for feeling other’s emotions - something that can be useful but it more often a bother.

One day a pair of fae - monsters Gwen remembers well from a childhood encounter - ask for her help in finding some missing children. Gwen isn’t really the heroine type and she is sure they have the wrong woman, but she isn’t really given a choice. The children in question all have special gifts like Gwen, but that is the only clue she has. With the help of her best friend/assistant Chloe and a werewolf PI, they struggle to figure who - or what is behind the disappearances.

About the Author

Olivia R. Burton writes urban fantasy and Mixed Feeling is the first in her Empathy in the Preternatural PNW series. Find out more on Goodreads or the author’s website.

My Opinion

see review at Reader's Hollow

#Adult #Urbanfantasy #4Stars