Reviewed by Cheryl K

TITLE: Legacy: Deadly Curiosities Book 5 – A Supernatural Mystery Adventure

SERIES: Deadly Curiosities #5

AUTHOR: Gail Z. Martin

PUBLISHER: SOL Publishing

LENGTH: 265 pages

RELEASE DATE: September 30, 2021

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A dark witch dynasty. A malicious, immortal undersea place-spirit. Eternal guardians who wagered their souls to protect Charleston.

Omens of impending disaster have the city on edge. Tremors warn of earthquake risk, while a potentially catastrophic storm gathers strength over the ocean and heads for land.

A last-man-standing promise among elderly veterans creates a dangerous inheritance involving an imprisoned, wish-granting goblin. A sea captain and a swashbuckler worked blood magic to protect Charleston from an ancient evil with a spell that bound their souls and their descendants to the task, but danger looms as its power fades. The head of a witch family wants artifacts and secrets—and he’ll do anything to get them.

Cassidy Kincaide runs Trifles and Folly, an antique and curio store where her touch magic helps get cursed and haunted objects out of the wrong hands. More than once, she and her allies have saved the world from supernatural threats.

The clock is ticking for Cassidy and her friends to stop the dark warlock, capture the goblin and restore the guardian spell before a malevolent ancient entity takes its vengeance on Charleston and the coast. It’s going to take all the magic, courage and quick thinking they can muster—and for once, that might not be enough.

Legacy is an action-packed urban fantasy paranormal thrill ride full of dark magic, infernal creatures, goblins and demigods, haunted places, pirate ghosts, found family, witch dynasties, loyal friends, Voudon spirits, secret history and plenty of adventure.

Book Five in the Deadly Curiosities series.

REVIEW:

I’ve gotten hooked on this series.  Gail Martin has done such a fantastic job of incorporating history, magic, and adventure into this series.  It’s helpful to have read the previous books in this series, but not required.  Gail does a wonderful job of recapping the previous books, without taking you out of the story.

Cassidy Kincaide and her group of paranormal keepers of the peace have managed to be drawn into another, potentially world ending event.  Multiple story lines are unfolding while you read this adventure and you wonder how this all will come together in the end. The first story line entails the last of a familial line passing away and magics associated with the family are degrading rapidly. The second background story is centered around the ghosts inhabiting a property the local museum has acquired.  The third story is about a genie in a bottle.  Now you might ask yourself what any of these stories have to do with the other…  Well, that part I’m not going to give away.  You’ll need to read the book and find out.

I’m a huge fan of worldbuilding in stories and character dialogue.  It’s one of my key items when reading stories.  How believable is the world the characters are residing in and what kind of dialogue happens?  Gail has created such a thorough world, based on a real place.  Charleston, South Carolina is a historically significant city, with roots dating back further than the Revolutionary War.  With that kind of history for a city background, the story options are endless.  Which is where our ghosts emerge.  This particular set of ghosts, Ramon and Gideon were pirates from the 1700’s, who met and fell in love.  Their story is told through Cassidy reading Gideon’s journals.  As a city with such a rich history, it can be incorporated into a paranormal world. This stories worldbuilding does a wonderful and believable job of incorporating the bustling heartbeat of Charleston, with its gritty, magical underbelly.

Gail’s character dialogue is fantastic.  It has a natural flow to it that let’s me become immersed in the story and not abruptly bring me out it.  She also has an uncanny sense about incorporating foreign languages into her stories, especially the genie, who is Korean.  I love the diversity Gail uses in these stories.

Gail weaves these three stories together so well; I didn’t see the ending coming. I highly recommend this book and series, especially if you’re not a fan of on page sexy times… Do yourself a huge favor and run a grab your e-reader and read this story.  You won’t regret it.

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