Blog Tour & Giveaway: A Bad Breed (Gaslamp Gothic #3) by Kat Ross

A Bad Breed
Kat Ross
(Gaslamp Gothic, #3)
Published by: Acorn Publishing
Publication date: May 31st 2019
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Retelling

Pricolici.

A creature out of folklore. And nightmare.

January 1889. When a Romanian village suffers a series of brutal attacks, occult investigator Anne Lawrence is dispatched to the forests of the Old Country to hunt the killer – only to vanish without a trace.

The trail leads her mentor Vivienne Cumberland deep into the Carpathians to a remote monastery. As a blizzard rages outside, trapping them all with the pricolici, Vivienne risks sharing the fate of the woman she came to find. But is the culprit truly a werewolf … or something even more dangerous?

A man bent on revenge. And a love that was never meant to be.

Imprisoned in a decaying castle, Anne finds herself ensnared in a web of dark enchantment, at the mercy of a mysterious captor with a beast inside – and a memory as old as the ancient legends.

As the weeks pass, Anne learns his real identity, and slowly uncovers a complex and deeply passionate man. But is she willing to pay the price for falling under his spell?

Note: This darkly magical reimagining of Beauty and the Beast is the third book in the Gaslamp Gothic series, but can be read as a standalone with no need to start with Book #1, The Daemoniac.

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My Review:

4 Out Of 5 Stars

Genre: Historical, Mystery, Retelling, Romance, Supernatural, Suspense, Werewolves, Zombies--

Keep in mind that while this is the third book in the series, I feel like it could be read on it's own. There are characters that have previously been featured in this world, but the mystery elements were brand new and this was the first time that we have had Anne as a main character.

​“The werewolf may have become extinct in our age, yet he has left his stamp on classic antiquity, he has trodden deep in Northern snows, has ridden rough-shod over the medievals, and has howled amongst Oriental sepulchres. He belonged to a bad breed, and we are quite content to be freed from him and his kindred, the vampire and the ghoul.”

It was as if this was book was split into two different stories put together with one common end game. On one path, we have Vivienne, Alec, Nathaniel and crew who are trying to solve the mystery of what happened to Anne and where is she now. Add in the fact there was a paranormal mystery (aka a potential werewolf killing machine) and a personal vendetta and we have the makings of a great Victorian style paranormal mystery.

But then we get to my favorite part of the book- the Beauty and the Beast retelling! I will be perfectly honest, I probably would have read this book any way since I have read the previous two books in the series, but I came for the Beauty and the Beast action. Kat was able to create something that was very much her own while at the same time playing true to the original fairytale. And I loved every minute of the slowly developed forbidden romance. I was sad when the story would switch gears back to the other group trying to find Anne- I just wanted to steal away and watch Anne inadvertently fall for her beastly capture. Yep, I am a sucker for the Stockholm Syndrome.

Each of the books in the Gaslamp Gothic series have been interesting, full of creepy paranormal mysteries with different kinds of twists on the stories we thought we knew and A Bad Breed is a great installment. The ending to this book had a lot of open ends that I must have answered so I will attempt to patiently wait until August when the sequel The Necromancer's Bride comes out in September!

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this title.

Author Bio:

Kat Ross worked as a journalist at the United Nations for ten years before happily falling back into what she likes best: making stuff up. She’s the author of the Fourth Element and Fourth Talisman fantasy series, the Gaslamp Gothic paranormal mysteries, and the dystopian thriller Some Fine Day. She loves myths, monsters and doomsday scenarios. Check out Kat’s Pinterest page for the people, places and things that inspire her books.

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