Review: Darker Days by Jus Accardo

Jessie Darker goes to high school during the day, but at night she helps with the family investigation business. Cheating husbands and stolen inheritances? They’re your girls—but their specialty is a bit darker. Zombie in your garage? Pesky Poltergeist living in your pool? They’ll have the problem solved in a magical minute. For a nominal fee, of course...

When gorgeous new client, Lukas Scott, saunters into the office requesting their help to find a stolen box, it sounds like a simple case—until the truth comes out. The box is full of Sin.

Seven deadly ones, in fact.

They’ve got five days to recapture the Sins before they're recalled by the box, taking seven hijacked human bodies with them. Easy peasy—except for one thing...

There’s a spell that will allow the Sins to remain free, causing chaos forever. When the key ingredient threatens the life of someone she knows, Jessie must make the ultimate choice between love and family—or lose everything.

When I got the email telling me I'd been one of the names drawn for Jus Accardo's new PNR series I was super excited. I love her Denezen series so was looking forward to reading this one (even though I'm getting a bit burnt out on series again.)

Fortunately, Darker Days doesn't disappoint. Jessie is a (not so) typical teen who works with her mom in their P.I. firm. While they take on normal cases, such as missing persons, or cheating significants, their specialty is...Otherwordly.

Enter Lukas who turns out to be not only a client but a little other-worldly himself. Tied to Wrath by a wicked, wicked witch, Lukas seeks out the Darkers help in order to put the sins back in the box they've been released from before they end up killing the people they've possessed. Easy enough...except for the surprise twists Accardo throws in along they way.

I really liked the relationship between Jessie and her mom. While there was a more friendly aspect then I would expect of most teen/mom relationships, Mom still retained authority while giving Jessie some autonomy.

Lukas and Jessie are great foils for each other modern day woman vs. Mr. Old-fashioned and was a lot of fun to see their feelings for each other change and grow. There were a couple times I wanted to smack Jessie upside the head for doing stuff even SHE knew was stupid, but she's still a great character and ends up making some tough decisions at great cost to herself.

While I didn't enjoy this as much as Touch and company it was still an enjoyable read and I'm sure to get the next book in the series.

Veronica Mars meets Supernatural in Darker Days,  a fun read with a new twist on the paranormal world.

Darker Days releases August 19th.