Book Review: "Bleeding Hearts" by Jennifer Allis Provost

Eli never wanted to be the Mistress of Seers, but she's sure as hell not going down without a fight.

Eli's doing her best to run Nine Lives Investigations, keep the local witch clans happy as the new Mistress of Seers, and navigate her newfound closeness with Dan. Although, she's not really leading anything, and truth be told she's fine with the supernatural community looking after itself. What's not fine is that she and Tessa have been tracking Nathaniel Beauclaire for months, only to hit one dead end after another.

When bleeding hearts start popping up all over town-out of season, mind you-Eli wonders what the universe is trying to tell her. Before she can figure out what the plants mean, someone threatens the clan elders, a group of (lame) ghost hunters begin dogging her every move, and she and Dan are attacked by a demon. Worst of all, each and every clue points toward Eli's ex, Amir, a power-mad seer she hasn't seen in years and never wants to see again, as the mastermind behind every piece of bad news.

When Amir's ultimate goal becomes known, Eli hatches a mad plan to stop him for good-then a family secret comes out which could derail everything, including her newfound leadership of the seers. Will she fight for the title she never wanted, or will Amir take everything from her yet again? - from Booksirens.com

This ARC was provided at no cost to me from BookSirens.com and I am providing an unbiased review.

This is the second book in the 'Poisoned Gardens' series and takes off pretty much just a short time after the events of the first book. Our main character, Eli, has put some space between her and the human cop, Dan. Her and her co-employer, Tessa, are still trying to track down our enemy from the first book, with not much luck. From there things got a brake-check from me. I got maybe a third of the way into the story and I just felt ... lost. I don't necessarily blame the author, or the writing style. It could just be me. I did finish reading the story but my attachment to it was pretty much non-existent.

There were some things we get to find out about the main characters past, so more character building was done (bravo). World building felt fine. Wrinting style was still fluent, and though there are some minor events that I find hard to swallow (at least for now) the story was still good, I just didn't feel as pulled into it as I did on the first book. I would still conider buying this for a fellow reader.