*Rating* 3.0
*Genre* Urban fantasy

*Full Review*

Sophie Lawson has immunity to any form of magic, yet she remains human. She is the only human who works for the Underworld Detection Agency. With her former boss on the lame and pretty much stuck as a werewolf, Sophie’s job status at UDA comes under review and reconsideration.

Sophie also learns more than a few secrets about herself in this book, including facts about who her real father is and what she is “carrying” within her. She even gets a visit More...

Oh man, I thought the first book was just so hilarious. This one fell flat in the comedy for me. Sophie started to get annoying in the first book, this book she was absolutely irritating. Every other chapter she was either getting beat up or she was getting possessed OR she was crying. And it was more crying than anything. The whole relationship with Alex is like crazy annoying and complicated and then the author introduces Will? I mean really a pretend Cop and a pretend Fireman? Jezus. But over More...

Sophie Lawson is not your typical urban fantasy protagonist. She has a fondness for Pinwheels and sheath dresses, doesn't know how to fight, doesn't have powers, and is about as far from tough as you can get. When I read UNDER WRAPS, the first book in the Underworld Detection Agency Chronicles, it took me a while to get used to Sophie because the book cover depicted her as a fierce warrior when she's really more of a cutesy girly girl. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a cute protagonist but the cover More...

I thoroughly enjoyed this 2nd installment in the UDA series. Sophie's back w/her friends like vamp Nina & co-workers along with goofy, laugh-out-loud funny clients at the UDA. If that's not enough, there's a familial ghost, new boss & creepy co-workers, along with even creepier baddies - & Alex, of course. I won't go into the plot, because others have, but here's my opinion on why you should get this book:

San Francisco in all of it's big city, smug, edgy but funkiness makes the perfe More...

I absolutely love this series! Sophie is in for an interesting ride as the fallen angel, Alex Grace, comes back into her life bringing danger and destruction along. Alex is still searching for his ticket back to Heaven and God's good graces. This ticket is in the form of the "Vessel of Souls", which has more than just Alex and Sophie chasing after it. Not only does Sophie have a dark angel wreaking havoc in her life, she's got a new boss at the Underworld Detection Agency - of the undead variety More...

The first book, Under Wraps I found it interesting but I had some doubts now completely overcome in this second book. The plot is more complex and articulated and the fast pace that I was involved in many adventures of the protagonist that follow page after page, finding myself often scream to be careful and not to trust "that." And then I laughed a lot, pure humor, jokes and hilarious original language in this comedy that does not neglect the melee fights, explosions or fire.E then there are th More...

Sophie works for the Underworld Detection Agency. They have brought in some new management around the same time Alex, a fallen angel who Sophie is somewhat involved with, shows up at her door step. He tells her that he is on a mission to find the Vessel of Souls. If he finds the vessel before the evil fallen angels do, then he might get his wings back. Sophie happily agrees to help him find it, and so does Nina, her roommate and work pal.

Sophie starts out light hearted and funny. I thought that More...

This was my first official “Urban Fantasy” book so maybe I don’t understand the genre. I have noticed some not so flattering reviews of this story and personally I don’t understand it. I thought the characters were so much fun that by page 21 I downloaded the first book Under Wraps. I spent this whole book either giggling or laughing out loud. Sophie and her friends are a bunch of smartasses (my kind of people). It was full of one liners and little zings that came out of no where.

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Sophie Lawson manages demons for the Underworld Detection Agency in San Francisco. Her best friend Nina is a vampire, and her on-again, off-again boyfriend is a fallen angel. Despite her intimate relationships with the minions of hell, she thinks she's just a normal "breather," a mortal human with no special abilities other than the fact that she's immune to magic. But then Alex comes back into her life, and he's looking for something called the vessel of souls. Whoever controls the vessel contr More...

As a human immune to magic, Sophie is somewhat of an anomaly at the Underworld Detection Agency, a beurocratic office that helps paranormal beings blend into San Francisco society. As the executive assistant to the agency’s director, she uses her magical force shield to her advantage while dealing with disgruntled trolls, vamps, weres and pixies. But after a brush with evil at – where else – Starbucks, she realizes her resistance to magic is no match for Satan’s Spawn.

On a quest to retrieve the More...

Despite this being my first book in the series, I had no trouble jumping in with Sophie and her pals. Accessible and engaging mythology, characters that reminded me of the Jane True series when it comes to hilarity and magical hi-jinx, I'll definitely want to go back and pick up UNDER WRAPS so I can enjoy all the available books in this series.

While individual scenes were well constructed, the uncorrected proof I was reading had some continuity issues between scenes. Sophie would be home, for no More...

When the Underworld Detection Agency undergoes a change of management, Sophie finds her life turned upside down. Not that her life was run of the mill before that; it's pretty much impossible to be normal when your clients include a family of dragons and you have a centaur as a co-worker. Her best friend and roommate Nina is a chic vampire, with the hots for the new boss, another vampire, who looks down on human "breathers" like Sophie. Meanwhile, the man who makes Sophie's pulse race is an ange More...

Under Attack by Hannah Jane-

I admit that I was worried that the characters would not be the same when I started this book but I was very happy to see that they are the same! The reason I was worried was because off the front cover. I did not want Sophie to suddenly be super woman, I was very excited when she was the same as she was before! I also have another favourite character, cha cha. That little dog is the best little guard puppy ever! She hides so well.

This book does take place a little w More...

I want to like this series; it’s a paranormal version of the Stephanie Plum books, which I do enjoy. The problem with this series is that it tries too hard to be what it is. It’s overly silly, overly forced into the goofiness that is the Plum books. The author even mentions reading Janet Evanovich books at one point, which is either a nod at the reviews that I saw before I read the first book in the series or it’s a nod to the fact that the author is really trying to make her books like that ser More...

Sophie works for the Underworld Detection Agency. They have brought in some new management around the same time Alex, a fallen angel who Sophie is somewhat involved with, shows up at her door step. He tells her that he is on a mission to find the Vessel of Souls. If he finds the vessel before the evil fallen angels do, then he might get his wings back. Sophie happily agrees to help him find it, and so does Nina, her roommate and work pal.

Sophie starts out light hearted and funny. I thought that More...

I won a copy of this book from Literary Escapism (www.literaryescapism.com). Thanks guys!

This review has some spoilers from the first book in the series and I do talk about some plot points, without spoilers, so if you don’t want to know anything at all about this book, don’t read this review!

Under Attack takes place about six months after the end of the last book, Under Wraps, and Alex has yet again gone MIA, Mr. Sampson is apparently still dead (boo!) and a new vamp boss is about to take over More...

Review originally posted on my blog: A Book Obsession..

Sophie may be invulnerable to magic, which is essential to surviving her job at the Underworld Detection Agency as the only breather (human), but that also means she doesn't have any powers of her own either. Considering the trouble she keeps finding herself in, any little bit would help. Her latest mess involves Alex's unrelenting quest to find the Vessel of Souls. Sophie isn't sure whether she can trust him, especially as hidden secrets ar More...

I didn't actually finish this book...I couldn't. All I wanted to do was smack the main character upside the head for being a sniveling weasel of a woman!
She's supposed to be 33 yrs old or so but acts like she's 16....everything "happens" to her...its not anything she does and quite frankly I find her very boring as a character and all the cliches that each character does really ruins the fun-ness in the story and takes away a bit of the relatability you might have garnered for these characters. More...

Sweet, darling Sophie...things go from bad to worse for our little Sophie! She finds out her beloved boss is dead and the new head honcho is a Vampire who doesn't like humans in an all demon world, so now her job is on the line. Alex is still looking for the Vessel of Souls which was lost on his watch. Sophie has begun to hear voices and fears for her sanity. And the mystery of Sophie's past comes to play in this addition to Hannah Jayne's Underworld Detection Agency Chronicles. I love ditsy lit More...

What to say about this book? It wasn't bad...I did enjoy it. However, at times I wonder if Sophie is too flipping stupid to live. I'd probably have killed her off a few times JUST because she seems to be asking for it.

I don't know the major reveals are going to fit into future stories. Because I don't go through and spoil books, you're going to have to read yourself to see what those reveals are.

I do wish she'd actually get some though...perhaps it would help clear Sophie's brain enough that sh More...

What to say about this book? It wasn't bad...I did enjoy it. However, at times I wonder if Sophie is too flipping stupid to live. I'd probably have killed her off a few times JUST because she seems to be asking for it.

I don't know the major reveals are going to fit into future stories. Because I don't go through and spoil books, you're going to have to read yourself to see what those reveals are.

I do wish she'd actually get some though...perhaps it would help clear Sophie's brain enough that sh More...

Under Attack is the second book in the Underworld Detection Agency series. Sophie's been floundering due to the events of the first book in the series, not to mention the coming and going of the gorgeous fallen angel Alex.

Alex comes to Sophie with an important search--he must find the Vessel of Souls--not only to get back in good grace with the powers above and gain back his wings, but to stop the evil fallen angels from gaining control.

Sophie is of two minds about the whole thing, since she do More...

Under Attack
By: Hannah Jayne
Copyright: November 2011
Publisher: Kensington Books

She's one of the Underworld Detection Agency's best. But her job is really starting to bite . .
Sophie Lawson is a human immune to magic, which comes in handy for helping paranormal beings transition into everyday life. But fallen angel Alex Grace and his search for the Vessel of Souls is one curse she never saw coming. Suddenly an unexplainable string of killings and destruction has even San Francisco's demons fearin More...

Sophie Lawson is a human, a ‘breather’, with no extraordinary powers working in the world of demons. Unless you count being human and being immune to magic as extraordinary. But in the world of dragons, vampires, trolls, banshees and various other demons those superpowers aren’t very impressive. But that doesn’t stop Sophie from trying to solve a mystery that is causing death and destruction in her town of San Francisco. However, in her attempt to solve this case she finds out a few things about More...

Sophie Lawson is back and now she has time on her hands since she just got fired to help her sometimes boyfriend Alex find his Vessel Of Souls and get back into Heaven. Conflicted on whether she wants him to go or stay she decides to help for the greater good of mankind. Finding the Vessel proves to be problematic even for a human immune to magic and as another fallen hell-bent on finding it to comes into the picture to challenge her, Sophie will have to use her wits to make it out alive. She’ll More...

Seriously ....seriously...??

She cried almost in every fucking page of the damn book..what is wrong with that woman ...or should I say little girl...

And WTF is wrong with authors .. I am trying really hard to be as respectful as I can ..but it is kinda hard when they think that writing a sex scene or the F word is bad but murder and violence is ok...really !
Because the world is being ripped apart by people having sex and talking shit !

Honestly I can be ok with no sex if the love story is strong a More...

I really liked Under Wraps, and I was looking forward very much to the sequel. I...didn't like it nearly as much, and I'm not sure how much of that is the book's fault and how much of it can be blamed on the fact that it might not have been quite the book I was in the mood for at the moment--I finished it in a hurry to get the book back to the library, which is not always the best state of mood for a book.

That said, I really did feel like this was a letdown from the first volume. Not that the st More...

In Jayne's underworld though demons are not always evil and fallen angels are neither all bad or all good, but a mixture like mankind. This is certainly an urban fantasy that I think any reader of the genre would love to add to their collection. The main character is not always likable, nor is she always the intelligent sophisticated being of most heroines today, but she is real and down-to-earth (well as much as someone who lives in a world full of the fantastical can be).
This is the second ins More...

If you want to read a great urban fantasy book with an even greater sense of humor then “Under Attack” the second book in the Underworld Detection Agency series by Hannah Jayne is the perfect book!

A non-stop adventure and funny like no other it is the perfect read. In this book, we continue reading Sophie’s story, a few months after the events from the first book. Sophie still lives with the fashionista vampire Nina (I love her!) and her nephew Vlad. But now, she loses her job and Alex returns t More...