Sin & Magic by K.F. Breene

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’ve agreed to work for a Demigod. My job? Find the spirit of his mother and release her before his vengeful father finds out and kills us all.

Have I lost my mind?

Thankfully, I don’t have to do it alone. Kieran has brought in help: a Necromancer who loves to flirt with danger. Bria can help me find the clues to free Kieran’s mom.

She can also help me learn my potent and extremely terrifying magic.

But as we work deeper into magical San Francisco, we uncover a minefield waiting to explode. I’m learning that there are far worse things than death.

Sin & Magic

Ghosts & Magic

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☹️😮😋😉🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet – Full Cast Narration – Dramatized Adaptation

The heroine: Alexis – her life has changed quite a bit since she met Kieran. She lives in the dual society zone, where the magical and non magical live together in peace, though it is not the best part of town, where the poor people live. Alexis has two wards, Mordecai and Daisy. Mordecai is a shifter who is ill and needs expensive medication, his parents were murdered by the shifter who took over as alpha of his pack. If he finds Mordecai he would surely challenge him and kill him since he fears Mordecai would someday get strong and be able to beat him in a fight. Daisy is a human without any magic. Alexis has always been under the radar, making sure the powers that be thought that she had only level two magical powers, but Kieran knew from the start that she was really a level five.

The Hero: Kieran – he is a demigod (descended from Poseidon) and is the son of Valens, the demigod in charge of everything. His father killed his mother, who was a selkie and Valens is somehow keeping her selkie skin which means Kieran’s mother can’t pass on to the other side, since selkie’s need their skin to pass over. Kieran is trying to free his mother and take down his father, and since Alexis is a level five ghost whisperer, he knows she will be able to help him free his mother.

The Story: The first book, Sin & Chocolate, was about getting to know the characters, their lives and what they could do magically. This book was more about getting in to the plot about Kieran’s father and how awful he is, and the storyline about them wanting to free his mother and take down his father. Alexis went to work for Kieran and though he kept her under the radar, she started training to control her magic and looking in to all the terrible things Valens has ben doing while he reigned as the highest authority in San Francisco. Alexis plans to help free Kieran’s mother so she can cross over, and she also plans to help all the others that Valens has trapped in the world of the living.

Like Sin & Chocolate, I thought this one was very interesting. It certainly held my interest and I liked the characters quite a bit. There were a lot of great supporting characters, like the six that protect Kieran, especially the grumpy Zoran, and Bria the necromancer, as well as Mordecai and Daisy. The ghosts were pretty great as well. Especially the old guy that spends his time outside Lexie’s house, standing on her lawn.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view and was narrated in duet narration by a full cast, Matthew Pauli, Andrew James Spooner, Bradley Foster Smith, Yenni Ann, Yasmin Tuazon, Alex Hill-Knight, Lena Lee, Robb Moreira, Rayner Gabriel, Danny Gavigan, Gabriel Michael. The audio contains music and background noises as well. It is done very well and makes it a full immersive experience. I really enjoyed it. They could have gone a completely different way with the narration, more serious and subdued, and I probably would have liked it that way as well. Though the they went was more satirical and kooky which was fun and gave it a completely different feel than what you would probably get from reading this series.

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