Book Review: Black Arts, White Craft (Black Hat Bureau - Book 2) by Hailey Edwards

Black Arts, White Craft (Black Hat Bureau - Book 2)
by Hailey Edwards

September 1, 2021

Pages: 256

After a black witch pitched a hissy fit in Hollis Apothecary, Rue got stuck cleaning up his mess. That was the easy part. Repairing the damage he inflicted on Camber and Arden? That makes Rue wish she could bring him back to life just to kill him again. Slower this time.

While Rue is setting her new life back to rights, Clay and Asa are off working a case, but it soon becomes clear that they’ll need her help to catch the vicious creature preying on locals in a small Tennessee town. She’s got her hands full at home, but Rue has no choice. She must report for duty to honor her agreement with the director. Or else.

What she discovers leads her deeper down the rabbit hole of Black Hat Bureau corruption and promises that, no matter how grim the past few weeks have been, the worst is yet to come.

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Rue and her two employees, Camber and Arden, have been spending time cleaning up and rebuilding Hollis Apothecary after a black witch destroyed the store. Rue is worried about the mental health of her employees as she feels she’s to blame for bringing this upon them, but both girls are insistent they are fine, and Rue is doing all she can to makes sure they are.

Clay and Asa have been working a case that soon draws her in to help catch the creature killing people in a small Tennessee town. She has so much going on at home that she really doesn’t want to go but has to honor the agreement she made with the Black Hat Bureau for her and Colby’s safety.

The more time that Rue and Asa spend together, the weirder it gets. Slowly, Rue is finding out all the rules involved with Asa and his daemon half, but instead of sending her running, it brings them closer together. It’s almost like they’re fated to be together. Clay and Colby start developing a bond that makes you smile each time one of them helps the other.

I really like this new series Edwards is writing. It’s fun, passionate, and has lots of monsters to learn more about.

Review: Black Hat, White Witch (Black Hat Bureau - Book 1)

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About the Author:
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Hailey Edwards writes about questionable applications of otherwise perfectly good magic, the transformative power of love, the family you choose for yourself, and blowing stuff up. Not necessarily all at once. That could get messy. She lives in Alabama with her husband, their daughter, and a herd of dachshunds.

Black Arts (Book #8 Jane Yellowrock) by Faith Hunter Book Tour + giveaway

Faith Hunter is known for using cool chapter titles in her Jane Yellowrock series. She was asked what each of the chapters titles meant in her next release Black Arts (Book #7) coming out Jan 7, 2014. 

Here is the list of all the chapter titles in Black Arts. During the book tour Faith will explain what each one means to her. We have her answers for chapters 1, 4, 22 and 24.

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Chapter One -- Insanity’s Not the Point
Chapter Two -- ’Cause Wolf-ees Stinks!
Chapter Three -- She Calls You Sugar Lips?
Chapter Four -- A Touch of Tasteless Snark
Chapter Five -- Molly’s Dead Body
Chapter Six -- Well-Trained Junky Yard Dogs
Chapter Seven -- Sold Me to Leo
Chapter Eight -- B-b-b-b-bad to the Bone
Chapter Nine -- “Not Human,” I Said. “Deal with It.”
Chapter Ten -- Le Petit Chaton Avec Les Griffes
Chapter Eleven -- Decide. Now.
Chapter Twelve -- Do We Call the Police?
Chapter Thirteen -- You Gonna Invite Me In?
Chapter Fourteen -- Fee- Fi- Fo- Fum. I Smell the Blood of a Witchy One
Chapter Fifteen -- Toss the Dress Away
Chapter Sixteen -- Dead-Slab-Of-Gravestone-Marble
Chapter Seventeen -- Killer Only, Killer Only, Killer
Chapter Eighteen -- We Never Found the Body
Chapter Nineteen -- Beast’s Angel Tolded Me So
Chapter Twenty -- What Took You So Long?
Chapter Twenty-one -- Went to the Dark Side
Chapter Twenty-two -- The First Day I Woke up Dead
Chapter Twenty-three -- Hey, Bitch! You Want Some of This?
Chapter Twenty-four -- Some Kind of Whammy

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What is your favorite chapter title for BLACK ARTS?
Chapter Twenty-two -- The First Day I Woke up Dead

Chapter One -- Insanity’s Not the Point
Well, face, it Jane is a little . . . not unstable, but sometimes rash in the way she rushes into danger, in the way she forgets about who she is and focuses on the one thing she needs to do. Tunnel vision, I guess. It can come across as dangerous. And the vamps in series are often unstable.

Chapter Four -- A Touch of Tasteless Snark
Jane uses snark like she would a war hammer—to bash anyone in her way. But it isn’t something that she usually does on purpose, it’s more like words fall out of her mouth. Except for this time. She planned it.

Chapter Twenty-two -- The First Day I Woke up Dead
So which vamp says it? And why? And what a cool line!

Chapter Twenty-four -- Some Kind of Whammy
Oh yeah. Jane puts the whammy on vamps all the time. (nods head) But who put it on whom here? And why???

Releases: Jan 7, 2014
Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker who always takes care of her own—no matter the cost….

When Evan Trueblood blows into town looking for his wife, Molly, he’s convinced that she came to see her best friend, Jane. But it seems like the witch made it to New Orleans and then disappeared without a trace.

Jane is ready to do whatever it takes to find her friend. Her desperate search leads her deep into a web of black magic and betrayal and into the dark history between vampires and witches. But the closer she draws to Molly, the closer she draws to a new enemy—one who is stranger and more powerful than any she has ever faced.

About the Author:

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Faith Hunter, fantasy writer, was born in Louisiana and raised all over the south. The Skinwalker series, featuring Jane Yellowrock is taking off like a rocket withSkinwalker, Blood Cross, Mercy Blade, Raven Cursed, Death’s Rival and Blood Trade. Her Rogue Mage novels, a dark, urban fantasy series—Bloodring, Seraphs, and Host—feature Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic, alternate reality, urban fantasy world. These novels are the basis for the role playing game, Rogue Mage.

Under the pen name Gwen Hunter, she writes action-adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. As Faith and Gwen, she has 20+ books in print in 28 countries.

Hunter fell in love with reading in fifth grade, and best loved SiFi, fantasy, and gothic. She decided to become a writer in high school, when a teacher told her she had talent. Now, she writes full-time and works full-time in a hospital lab, (for the benefits) tries to keep house, and is a workaholic with a passion for travel, jewelry making, white-water kayaking, and writing. She and her husband love to RV, traveling with their dogs to whitewater rivers all over the Southeast.

Black Arts Book Tour

26-Nov I Smell Sheep 

26-Nov Magical Urban Fantasy Reads 

5-Dec Kristina's Paranormal Books 

6-Dec What I Learned Today 

9-Dec Morphy's Book Blog 

10-Dec Rex Robot Reviews 

11-Dec Under the Covers Book Blog 

12-Dec After Dark Rendezvous 

17-Dec The Enchanted Alley

18-Dec Mad Hatter Reads 

19-Dec Paranormal Cravings 

23-Dec All Things Urban Fantasy 

27-Dec The Book Nympho 

30-Dec Bea's Book Nook 

2-Jan drey's library 

6-Jan Urban Fantasy Investigations 

7-Jan Literal Addiction

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Cover Reveal: Black Arts (Jane Yellowrock #7) by Faith Hunter

Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock dark urban fantasy 
series continues with the release of 

BLACK ARTS, book #7, on January 7, 2014.

Preorder now!

Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker who always takes care of her own—no matter the cost....

When Evan Trueblood blows into town looking for his wife, Molly, he’s convinced that she came to see her best friend, Jane. But it seems like the witch made it to New Orleans and then disappeared without a trace.

Jane is ready to do whatever it takes to find her friend. Her desperate search leads her deep into a web of black magic and betrayal and into the dark history between vampires and witches. But the closer she draws to Molly, the closer she draws to a new enemy—one who is stranger and more powerful than any she has ever faced.

About Faith Hunter:
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Faith Hunter, fantasy writer, was born in Louisiana and raised all over the south. Her Jane Yellowrock urban fantasy series features a Harley-riding, leather-wearing, Cherokee-Skinwalker vampire killing machine. The series begins with SKINWALKER, and continues with BLOOD CROSS, MERCY BLADE, RAVEN CURSED, DEATH’S RIVAL, BLOOD TRADE, and the upcoming BLACK ARTS. 

Faith's Rogue Mage novels - BLOODRING, SERAPHS, and HOST - feature Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic, alternate reality, urban fantasy world, and is the basis for the Rogue Mage roleplaying game. And under the pen name Gwen Hunter, she writes action-adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. Altogether, Faith/Gwen has 20+ books in print in 28 countries.