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Amsden, Christine, Cassie Scot: Paranormal Detective. 8:27 hrs. Audible Download, 2013.
Daughter of two powerful sorcerers, powerless Cassie Scot is a disappointment to her family and doesn’t feel like she fits in. When a vampire starts killing other magical practitioners, Cassie enlists the help of local, powerful sorcerer and cousin of one of the victims, Evan Blackwood to solve the case. As she investigates, however, her friend, Angie becomes the next target. When she and Evan take on the friend’s vampiric boyfriend on their own, however, the stakes heat up and now the mysterious vampire is out to get her. To make matters worse, her mom is pregnant again and her and her father think that their only ideal magical protection is to disown Cassie. Fortunately, her cousin, Jason, and her brother, Nicholas aren’t about to leave her in the dark. Without a magical protector, however, Cassie’s life is more in danger than ever. Can Cassie solve the crime without becoming vampire chow? Will she ever be able to repair her relationship with her family after her parents’ betrayal?

The characters in this book are entertaining and well-developed. Although, the readers will probably want to strangle her parents for their stupidity, the family dynamic for most of the book is engaging and easily draws the reader into Cassie’s world. The plot is well-paced, engaging, and well-developed. The love triangle between Cassie, Braden, and Evan is masterfully done, but the reader will feel left unsatisfied with the ending. Fortunately, there is a sequel which will leave plenty of chance for this triangle to run its course. Readers who like paranormal mystery with a little bit of romance will enjoy reading this book.


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Cassie Scot Paranormal Detective Christine Amsden 9781606192757 Books Reviews

I'm a big urban fantasy fan, and a big indie fiction fan, but it's very seldom that the two meet. There's plenty of paranormal romance in the indie world (too much, I think), but not so much UF for some reason. So I was delighted to find this well-written piece of urban fantasy with a strong and appealing main character published by an indie author.

The cover looks a little YA to me, but (one of the advantages of indie publication the author gets to decide these things) the female protagonist illustrated on it isn't showing large amounts of tattooed skin. On the YA issue, this book is what is now sometimes called "new adult", meaning that the protagonist is out of high school but still young. Personally, I think the age (and gender) of the protagonist is a silly basis for genre classification, or audience segmentation, for that matter, and as a 45-year-old man I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Further on genre, just to get it out of the way yes, there is a strong romance subplot. It is a subplot, though, placing this on the urban fantasy side of the UF/PNR line. The main plot is the mystery of the vampire attacks which the protagonist, a self-described "normal detective" working her first independent case, must solve in order to protect her town.

She's "normal" because, unlike the rest of her family and a number of other people in town, she has no sorcerous powers. This is a major plot thread, as you'd imagine. It's tricky to place a non-powered normal human in a setting where just about everyone else is more powerful than she is and have her remain a viable and believable protagonist, but this author pulls it off.

She also pulls off the tricky combination of a confident, capable and independent-minded young woman who is also self-doubting, worried, inexperienced and used to being dependent on her powerful and wealthy family. I felt she kept that balance well, and it didn't break my suspension of disbelief at any point. The character is also courageous and wants to help others, even at risk to herself, which is how I like my heroes of either gender.

At one moment halfway through, I was very much afraid that we were going to get the trope of "young woman protagonist makes stupid, headstrong decision that puts her in harm's way in order to ramp up the plot tension, and has to be rescued by a man to ramp up the romantic tension". It's a trope that occurs again and again in UF/PNR, and, my wife tells me, also in the non-paranormal female forensic investigator genre. I hate that trope with a burning hatred, and was deeply relieved when the author turned out to just be messing with me. I felt that the trope was successfully avoided, or at least softened enough that it fitted with the character's generally sensible and practical demeanour.

I found the minor characters believable as real people and not just cardboard cutouts, too. The plot was sufficiently intricate, and the mystery progressed at a good pace. The setting was a fairly standard UF one, with magic-users and vampires (I think werewolves were alluded to as well, and contact with the dead), but with some nice variation in terms of the "talents" that people exhibited. It put me in mind of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files or C.E. Murphy's Walker Papers, and I can't really offer higher praise than that.

There were a couple of dozen mostly minor editing issues. I've connected with the author on Google+ (after I bought the book) and have let her know about them, so they will probably be fixed before too long and I won't detail them here. Otherwise, great stuff, and I'll be getting the next one.
I was given the opportunity to read and review Cassie Scot Paranormal Detective by Christine Amsden. Let me just start off by saying, this is a wonderful book for all ages. I have absolutely fallen in love with the book and the characters. Immediately the book drew me in to the world of Ms. Cassie Scot. Cassie is the eldest daughter of a very powerful, magical family. Unfortunately, Cassie is not magical herself. Cassie was born with no magical powers at all, unlike those of her 6 brothers and sisters and her parents. Living in an area with sorcerers and vampires, Cassie is just really trying to live a normal life.

"I've been called a lot of things on my life normal, ordinary, and even a disappointment. After the Harry Potter books came out, a couple of people called me a squib. Since I haven't read them I have to assume it's a compliment.
Personally, I prefer normal, which is why the sign on my office door reads Cassie Scot, Normal Detective."

This story has everything, forbidden love, mystery, murder. Cassie begins a case to try to serve a subpoena to a town member, who is of the paranormal kind, and stumbles along a murder of a family member of her former best friend Evan Blackwood. Evan, who is also a powerful sorcerer, enlists Cassie in helping him find his cousin's killer. Along the way Cassie seems to develop feelings for Evan, but is warned against them by not only her family, but also her friends.
Now before I go and give too much away on this book, my suggestion to everyone is go get and read the book. You will not be disappointed. And trust me, Amsden will leave you wanting more. I can't wait until the next book in series becomes available. She has a wonderful hit on her hands.
Amsden, Christine, Cassie Scot Paranormal Detective. 827 hrs. Audible Download, 2013.
Daughter of two powerful sorcerers, powerless Cassie Scot is a disappointment to her family and doesn’t feel like she fits in. When a vampire starts killing other magical practitioners, Cassie enlists the help of local, powerful sorcerer and cousin of one of the victims, Evan Blackwood to solve the case. As she investigates, however, her friend, Angie becomes the next target. When she and Evan take on the friend’s vampiric boyfriend on their own, however, the stakes heat up and now the mysterious vampire is out to get her. To make matters worse, her mom is pregnant again and her and her father think that their only ideal magical protection is to disown Cassie. Fortunately, her cousin, Jason, and her brother, Nicholas aren’t about to leave her in the dark. Without a magical protector, however, Cassie’s life is more in danger than ever. Can Cassie solve the crime without becoming vampire chow? Will she ever be able to repair her relationship with her family after her parents’ betrayal?

The characters in this book are entertaining and well-developed. Although, the readers will probably want to strangle her parents for their stupidity, the family dynamic for most of the book is engaging and easily draws the reader into Cassie’s world. The plot is well-paced, engaging, and well-developed. The love triangle between Cassie, Braden, and Evan is masterfully done, but the reader will feel left unsatisfied with the ending. Fortunately, there is a sequel which will leave plenty of chance for this triangle to run its course. Readers who like paranormal mystery with a little bit of romance will enjoy reading this book.