Blog Tour: May Day by Josie Jaffrey #TheWriteReads #BlogTour

Welcome everyone to another one of my Blog Tour stops organised by the wonderful Dave @The_WriteReads.

Also a massive THANK YOU to Josie sending me an eARC for this tour.

So, without further ado let’s get into today’s tour for May Day by Josie Jaffrey.

Format: eBook

Publisher: Silver Sun Books

Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal

Publication Date: 9th July 2020

Blurb

“If the murderer you’re tracking is a vampire, then you want a vampire detective. Just maybe not this one.

It’s not that Jack Valentine is bad at her job. The youngest member of Oxford’s Seekers has an impressive track record, but she also has an impressive grudge against the local baron, Killian Drake.
When a human turns up dead on May Morning, she’s determined to pin the murder on Drake. The problem is that none of the evidence points to him. Instead, it leads Jack into a web of conspiracy involving the most powerful people in the country, people to whom Jack has no access. But she knows someone who does.
To get to the truth, Jack will have to partner up with her worst enemy. As long as she can keep her cool, Drake will point her to the ringleaders, she’ll find the murderer and no one else will have to die.
Body bags on standby.

May Day is the first book in Josie Jaffrey’s Seekers series, an urban fantasy series set in Oxford, England.“

My Thoughts & Review

I do like myself a vampire read and had been keeping an on this book on Josie’s twitter page. So, you can imagine how excited I was when Dave (@The_WriteReads) sent out the email to say there was a blog tour on its way for this book, it was perfect timing!!!

As I said I like me a good vampire read but in the past I’ve found that a majority of them have not gone down too well for me so when I first opened the book on my Kindle I made sure I went in with an open mind, and reminded myself not to get too excited and ahead of myself, just in case I didn’t like it. Well I had nothing to worry about because I really loved this one.

The plot was really intriguing. Yes, we’ve had similar plots of Vampire detectives before but they’ve not been done as good as this one. The mystery aspect of the book was really well done it kept me wanting to read.

The writing was very detailed and I liked how the reader is presented with the finding of the investigation as they see it. This made the book more interesting and made me feel like I was right there with the Seekers, seeing everything they were doing.

At the time of reading the book I did feel the pace was a little jumpy but now that I’ve finished the book and thinking about it some more, I can see that in fact this jumpy pace worked well in the end as it added to the build-up.

May Day had a great set of characters who worked well together. I don’t really think there were any characters that I really didn’t like. But I know for a fact that Jack (Jacquelyn) was definitely my favourite. I loved how she never took no for an answer and how she was determined to be the best at her job. While she came across as quite a serious character while working she also had a fun side, were her dark humour comes out.

Even though I really enjoyed this book. I didn’t give it a full 5 out of 5 and that was because of the romance. This is definitely a personal preference and I have nothing against the way it was done in the book but it just didn’t work for me, because I find romance in crime set books to be very distracting.

If you’re looking for a great new vampire read with great queer representation then this is the book I recommend.

Can’t wait to see what the next book in the series has to offer!!!! Ok, I’m now off to add some more of Josie’s books to my already long TBR list.

My Rating:

💙💙💙💙

Meet The Author

I have always written stories, but it wasn’t until I started the first book in the Solis Invicti series in 2014 that I really became obsessed with writing. I love to read, particularly where the escapism of the story is enhanced with an element of fantasy or science fiction. For me, writing is simply an extension of that journey, but I get to decide what happens next (though it’s amazing how often the characters seem to decide for themselves what I’m going to write!).