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Jayde Scott

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Werken van Jayde Scott

A Job from Hell (2011) 219 exemplaren
Beelzebub Girl (2011) 48 exemplaren
Black Wood (A Witch Rising, #1) (2011) 30 exemplaren
The Divorce Club (2011) 27 exemplaren
Born to Spy (2010) 26 exemplaren
Voodoo Kiss (Volume 3) (2011) 22 exemplaren
Forever And Beyond (2012) 15 exemplaren
Bewitched (2012) 13 exemplaren
Dead And Beyond (2012) 10 exemplaren
Alex Gonzo, Royal Spy (2011) 3 exemplaren

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“A Job From Hell” by Jayde Scott was just plain bad.

Maybe as a 44 year old guy when I read it, I’m not the expected audience for it, but still… I’ve read a lot of fantasy over the years and a bit of chick-lit, but this was just bad. I found it while looking for fantasy novels that were free or very inexpensive, and I don’t think I realized this was teen paranormal romance stuff…

It starts with 17 year old Amber, from London, getting a summer job as a housekeeper somewhere in rural Scotland, with the cab driver refusing to take her all the way to the creepy, house because of superstitious rumors, leaving her to walk the rest of the way up. She spends a few days half-heartedly and utterly incompetently doing household chores (not that I could do better, mind you…) while things just seem odd.

Then her brother unexpectedly comes by, with an implausible explanation for what he, as a Londoner, is doing in rural Scotland. He has a scheme for the two of them to sneak around in the middle of the night to steal some jewels he spotted through the window of a cabin in the woods.

From there the job goes straight to hell for Amber and she gets mixed up with several kinds of supernatural, immortal folks, including her boss, Aiden, a 500+ year old vampire, his vampire brother and their close friend, Clare, the three of whom share the house. Then there’s Cassandra, the daughter of the most famous fallen angel who keeps popping by, and Shadow folks…

Unbelievably, Amber accepts all that very quickly, quicker than I, as a reader, could.

Some of the characters are interesting, some are as flat as cardboard. The bickering amongst various pairs gets annoying quickly. And it’s not very believable that they’d be bickering the way they do in the situations they’re in.

Most of the book is from Amber’s point of view, but occasional chapters are from Aiden’s. The context switches are very jarring, and often in the same scene, referring to the same people, but Ms. Scott isn’t a good enough writer to give them distinct enough voices to keep me from getting confused. Aiden’s chapters only make sense when they’re different scenes in different locations with different people around.

I made it to the end, but at this point I think I’ll avoid further books by this author.
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KevinRubin | 7 andere besprekingen | Aug 11, 2020 |
This book was nothing like I expected and I was torn over whether I wanted to give it 4 or 5 stars..

****************** Stats **********************
Hero : 5 Heroine : 4 Peak Factor:4 Plot:4 Writing:5
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Overall Star rating: 4.4 Great Book Stars

My Aidan:


My Amber:


I found this book funny, witty, and I have to say that I was stuck the entire book. When I first started I was only trying to clean another "free" book off of my Kindle. After I started reading this book I fell in love with the characters. Amber was not like many other heroins in the book but, I also felt that she was easily influenced to change her mind. I like a heroin who can stand up for herself. Aidan was mysterious but, the love he felt made me swoon..I found myself
at many parts of this book.. But, what made me really give four instead of five is because the end of the book left me like this I hate CLIFFHANGERS spoiler> but, I will be reading the next book in the series VERY soon!
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Angel.Carter | 7 andere besprekingen | Aug 11, 2016 |
Let’s get this straight; this book, to me, was just like every other YA paranormal romance novel I have ever tried or completed reading. Although there were some aspects of the plot that could have been interesting, and the writing was interesting yet overall simple and a bit repetitive, I found the whole thing rather dull. I don’t usually like giving bad reviews, but all the way through reading this book, I fought the urge to just give up. I don’t feel like I’m being unfair to this novel as there were some small aspects that I enjoyed, but apart from the slight positives, there were a lot of negatives.

Not to jump on the Twilight-hating bandwagon, but I found that there were a lot of similarities between A Job from Hell and the Twilight series. Blake was almost exactly the same as Jasper Cullen as he was a bit wild and quite a new vampire. Also Amber seemed very similar to Bella in a lot of ways, in that she was a clumsy, quite plain girl, and yet she falls for the typical hot and sexy supernatural guy.

The characters in this novel were the thing that really bugged me. Aiden, although at first seemed like the hot tough guy, he became very immature and always put himself in danger without thinking of the consequences. Amber was similar in that way, and I found her a very weak and sometimes tedious character, and of course, being YA, there was that insta-love trope that keeps popping up.

Another thing that annoyed me slightly throughout this book was the pop culture references. During the book, many films and books were mentioned, such as ‘Ghost’, ‘The Exorcist’ and even ‘Lord of the Rings’, in what seemed like completely inappropriate situations, which began to distract from the story quite a lot.

I’m happy in a way that I got this free on Kindle and to be honest, I was drawn to the cover. Despite it being quite a typical YA paranormal romance cover, I have to admit that it is gorgeous and I really like the dark colours. Another good thing about this, is despite it being about 360 pages long, I managed to finish this in one day as it is quite a fast-paced novel.

Overall, I would have to give A Job From Hell by Jayde Scott 2 out of 5 stars, as I was disappointed in the plot, especially the ending, and I found that I couldn’t relate to any of the characters. However, I am not usually a massive fan of this genre, and I think that anyone who enjoys YA paranormal romance would probably really like this book so I can’t say that it shouldn’t be read, but it is just definitely not the right kind of book for me.
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charlottejones952 | 7 andere besprekingen | Sep 2, 2013 |
Dead And Beyond (Ancient Legends #4) by Jayde Scott

First I have to admit this is the first book I’ve ever read by Jayde Scott, while I was reading Dead And Beyond I realized that I was reading a book that was part of a series. This did not deter me and Jayde Scott’s writing was great and I never really had a problem understanding what was going on. I still cannot believe I had not read any of her books. But I will be reading every book in this series. Jayde Scott is an amazing author and this series is great.

Dead And Beyond we meet Amber who is a vampire and a necromancer. Being new to this world she is still trying to figure everything out. Spending time with her true mate Aiden, she is happy and is very much in love. But recently Aiden has been distracted with his own duties and Amber is struggling with bloodlust and ghosts. Looking for answers she talks to an old friend about what has been going with her and also tries to find out about her missing friend Angel.

Amber and Aiden both keeping secrets from each other does cause some problem and Amber jumps to some conclusion which leads her to doubt his love for her.

Jayde Scott’s Dead and Beyond is fast paced, easy to read story and I really enjoyed it and cannot wait to read the rest of this series.
I would recommend this to everyone who loves the paranormal genre, only thing I would suggest is to start with Book One A Job From Hell.


*Disclosure of Material Connection: I am a member of Reading Addiction Blog Tours and a copy of this book was provided to me by the author. Although payment may have been received by Reading Addiction Blog Tours, no payment was received by me in exchange for this review. There was no obligation to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are entirely my own and may not necessarily agree with those of the author, publisher, publicist, or readers of this review. This disclosure is in accordance with the Federal Trade Commision’s 16 CFR, Part 255, Guides Concerning Use of Endorcements and Testimonials in Advertising*
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TanaT | Aug 7, 2013 |

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Werken
13
Leden
426
Populariteit
#57,313
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½ 3.6
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16
ISBNs
22

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