What happens when you have died, resurrected, tortured and more? Evy Stone is about to find out!
My Rating for Wrong Side of Dead (Dreg City Series Book 4): 4 Stars
Evy Stone has been
tortured, died, been brought back to life and has enemies coming out of the
woodwork has all but broken her into pieces. Only the strength of her love for
Wyatt, another triad member and her strong will to survive has Evy been able to
make this new body of hers her very own. But the mad scientist, Walter
Thackery, is still loose and after Evy’s unplanned visit with him, she knows he
has plans on top of backup plans. But that isn’t the only fight she has to deal
with. Add in half-blood vampires who have some kind of reason and that makes
them even more deadly than before and a long thought extinct were/shape-shifter
has returned with a vengeance. All Evy wanted was to reconnect with her love,
Wyatt, and heal her physical, emotional and mental self. And that doesn’t even
begin to scratch the surface once Evy finds out what has happened while she was
captive by Thackery. Secrets explode, alliances broken as new alliances are
made. The triads that used to patrol the streets, keeping the citizens of Dreg City
When I saw book four in the Dreg City Series, I was ecstatic This series is one I can't get enough of. With amazing cast of diverse and unique characters, a fast paced storyline and twists that leave you gasping in disbelief, well, lets just say this series is one bumpy ride from start to finish and enjoy the ride. Ms. Meding delivers one
pulse pounding ride from start to finish, tying up sub-plot points while
weaving a few new ones to keep the reader on the edge of the seat. Wrong Side of Dead picks up right where book three, Another Kind of Dead, left off. The
reader is treated to a story full of hidden nuances, exquisite storytelling and
multi-dimensional characters that fairly leap off the pages into your living
room. The writing is tight and storyline was fast paced with a few twists I so
did not see coming at all. Everything comes to head in Wrong Side of Dead and for our gutsy kick butt Evy Stone, well let’s just say the reader finds
themselves wishing for a down day for her.
Evy has been through the wringer and frankly I felt for her. The poor thing couldn't catch her breath or even change her clothes before finding out what happened those months at the hands of the insane doctor, Walter Thackery, and finding her world as she knows it utterly in tatters. Everything changes with a blink of an eye and the reader is caught up in this as well. I have to give this author props in creating such a complex, layered world to enjoy. Peppered with unique paranormal creatures as well as those we read about every day (vampires, shifters, fae, etc). This is an author who knows this world intimately and lets the characters tell the story. The twists that you don't see coming will leave you breathless even as you flip the pages to see what happens next. This is truly the work of
an author who knows how to build the world and create appealing characters to
fall in love with. They are well written; flawed creatures who I can say made
me want to take them home and give them a hug or crack them in the head. The
secondary characters are not lacking either. Evy’s relationships meld and
change fluidly and I loved how this author has you sympathizing one minute with
her then next rooting for her to tear the guy’s throat out the next.
Wrong Side of Dead is more than a kick butt
heroine and paranormal creatures but a complex mix of lives lost and won,
relationships that strengthen or die and finding how much you can take after
all the pain-emotional, mental and physical-is upon you. Evy Stone is one
character that I can’t get enough off and I can attest one I just love to
pieces. If you enjoy a story that weaves a spell around you, makes you fall in
love with the characters and more then you need to run-not walk-to grab this
entire series. I can attest it is one series I re-read a lot just to get my fix
for Evy’s snarkiness, her determination and her love of life.
Ms. Meding is fast rising
onto being right up there with the likes of Sherrilyn Kenyon, JR Ward and other
top paranormal/urban fantasy authors. Now I just want to know, when will book
five come out?
This is an objective review and the book was given to me by the publisher
The Dreg City Series:
Book One~ Three Days Dead
When Evangeline Stone wakes up naked and bruised on a cold slab at the morgue – in a stranger’s body, with no memory of who she is and how she got there – her troubles are only just beginning. Before that night, she and the other two members of her Triad were star bounty hunters — mercilessly cleansing the city of the murderous creatures living in the shadows, from vampires to shape-shifters to trolls. Then something terrible happened that not only cost all three of them their lives, but also convinced the city’s other Hunters that Evy was a traitor . . . and she can’t even remember what it was.
Evangeline Stone, a rogue bounty hunter, never asked for a world divided between darkness and light…
…or the power to die and live again in someone else’s borrowed body. After a murder plot meant to take her out leaves an entire race of shapeshifters nearly extinct, Evy is gnawed by guilt. So when one of the few survivors of the slaughter enlists her aid, she feels duty-bound to help–even though protecting a frail, pregnant shifter is the last thing Evy needs, especially with the world going to hell around her.
Amid weres, Halfies, gremlins, vamps–and increasingly outgunned humans–a war for supremacy is brewing. With shifters demanding justice, her superiors desperate to control her, and an assassin on her trail, Evy discovers a horrifying conspiracy. And she may be the only person in the world who can stop it–unless, of course, her own side gets her first.
She was born for this fight…no matter how many times it kills her.
She can heal her own wounds. She can nail a monster to a wall. But there’s one danger Evangeline Stone never saw coming.
Been there. Done that.
Evy Stone is a former Dreg Bounty Hunter who died and came back to life with some extraordinary powers. Now all but five people in the world think she is dead again, this time for good—immolated in a factory fire set specifically for her. Evy and Wyatt, her partner/lover/friend, can no longer trust their former allies, or even the highest echelons of the Triads—the army of fighters holding back from an unsuspecting public a tide of quarreling, otherworldly creatures—they can trust only each other. Because when the Triads raided a macabre, monster-filled lab of science experiments and hauled away the remnants, they failed to capture their creator: a brilliant, vampire-obsessed scientist with a wealth of powerful, anti-Dreg weaponry to trade for what he desires most of all—Evy Stone: alive and well, and the key to his ultimate experiment in mad science.
and coming in September 2013, the next chapter in the Dreg City Series.....
She’s died twice while protecting her city…and she’d do it again to save the people she loves.
After a deadly, artificial infection forces the vampire Families into a self-imposed isolation, the city’s protective Watchtower forces are depleted by one third, leaving humans and shifters to shoulder the burden. Human enforcer Evangeline Stone is determined to find a way to help her vampire allies, but she already has her hands full—investigating an escalating series of goblin attacks, dealing with her half-werewolf lover, locating three missing werewolf teenagers, and learning to trust her non-human coworkers.
When a potential cure for the vampires’ infection is given to her by an unlikely source, it’s just as quickly stolen—collateral damage in a power play within the were-cat Clan that leaves one human ally dead and another horribly injured. With Wyatt Truman still adjusting to his new life as a half-werewolf, Phineas missing in action, and her shifter allies crippled by internal anarchy, Evy has to rely on her own strength and instincts to steal back the cure, stop a murderer, and to save the Watchtower before it’s destroyed from the inside out.
RELEASES: September 16 in Digital format only (Kindle, Nook, Kobo, etc…)
Note from the author: I am digitally self-publishing this book, because Evy’s story isn’t over. There are no current plans to offer a print version, but that may change in the future.
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