Review: cracking supernatural sexy read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 3, 2013
Serafina and the Virtual Man. (Book 2, Serafina's) Marie TreanorReview from Jeannie Zelos Book Reviews.I loved the first Serafina book, so was keen to get onto this one. This time Sera and Jilly are at the home of Dale Ewan, chasing down a troublesome poltergeist. But as always the duo find more than they're looking for, and Jilly comes across the gorgeous Adam. Trouble is he seems to be Virtual Reality Adam, as according to Dale and the press he died several months back - so how is he talking to Jilly about things in the present? And how come she can interact with him? Touch him, feel him, love him...?Once again Sera and Jilly, with the rest of the team - Blair, Jack, Elsbeth and Mel - are head first in a dangerous mystery, with surprises coming at them from all angles. Its a really tangled web, and one Jilly especially has a personal interest in as time goes by. There's some sensual and erotic sex entwined in the story as with book one. I love authors who can do that, write hot, sultry sex that fits the characters and the plot so perfectly. It just adds that bit of extra interest to the story and some realism to the characters.We learn more about Jilly in this book, the last one concentrated on Sera and Blair and this time its Jilly's turn. The next one I think is about Jack. I love the way series do this, bring something new but as we already know the characters and how they work from earlier books we feel like we're meeting old friends. Marie creates people who feel very real to me. I'm open minded anyway about the supernatural so there's nothing I really have to stretch my imagination to accept, and knowing these people work with otherworldly presences its easy to see how accepting they are of what comes at them. Jilly is a PC expert so its simple for her to "talk" to Adam online, she knows all the way to make PC's sing, and he's a programming expert so can make them do what he wants. The VR image of him seems real - but that also what he was working on when he died so he knows the system inside out.Once again a gripping story, enough to keep me wondering what would happen next - and I didn't work out who did what and how, had a few guesses, got it wrong again (blush) and was entranced by this book. Just as you get to grips with one puzzle Marie throws in a new angle so you're never quite sure of what's going to happen. The unpredictability is a great device for keeping the reader hooked. I loved the characters and the way they behave, sex one moment, humour the next. Its a book with so much to offer and I hope book three carries on the way of books one and two.Its priced at 1.99 for 301 pages so a real bargain and one I'd happily re read esp when all novels out and I can have a Serafest of back to back books.NB: ARC supplied via NetgalleyStars: five, cracking book :)