Reedsy Discovery Must read 🏆

"The best of everything a reader could want! Intrigue, mystery, suspense, light romance, all told with a delicate, nuanced hand in command. 

 

What a perfect read! This book feels wholly relevant and not overly futuristic. Everything was so well and aptly named, put together, and scenic, from the names of places and people to the gadgetry. This is a book that brings all a reader's senses to life! It is a read you can completely immerse yourself in.

 

I am a new fan of K.M. Krenik. This is a book written for the masses, forwarned with triggers. It glosses over sensitive material while fully exposing it without going into lewd detail. Genius! The same can be said for the expletives! Having the swearing relegated to symbols was very much appreciated. In the world where I choose to immerse myself, swearing has no place, is entirely unnecessary, and lends itself to a lack of intelligence and immorality.

 

Finally, a book that is a page-turner, like a James Patterson book, yet edgy and moody enough to find traits suited to some of Dean Koontz's works, yet in a lane that removes itself from their typical over-reach of vulgar and crude material which makes their books unpalatable to me. "Danger Lies Within" is a true triumph!

 

'Danger Lies Within,' what a title! It's so well nestled within the pages of this book and takes on a multi-layered meaning. Readers everywhere will rejoice!

 

I could easily see this book turned into a television series or a movie. It has robust characters, a large cast, but not so big as to cause confusion, and nonstop action. Good versus evil on a grand scale, much like today's world, and simultaneously intimate and personal. This book tells of things to come in a way that makes it believable because it is all too real.

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'Danger Lies Within' can be read as a stand-alone, though reading the prequel wouldn't hurt! The short excerpt from book two, found at the end of book one, definitely leaves the reader wanting more. (Now, I'll be left to fret and worry until I have book two in my hands—gah!)

 

My hats off to the author; the only loose end (that might be tidied up in book two) is the serpent earring found by Courtney and handed to Sean. I would assume that was part of all the ransacking and commotion within the castle walls, but as it was never mentioned again, I'm unsure if this is accurate. While earrings are essential to the overall puzzle, I suppose I'll need to "keep calm and read on" until my curiosity is satiated and all is revealed when the last page of the final book within this series has been written and published by the author, and then subsequently turned by me as a reader, somewhere down the road. Kudos!"

-Jennie Louwes Reedsy Discovery