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Cassie Scot: ParaNormal Detective Kindle Edition

by Christine Amsden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
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"In this entertaining series opener, Amsden (The Immortality Virus) introduces readers to the eponymous Cassie, a decidedly mundane member of a magical family. ...Readers will enjoy Cassie's fish-out-of-water struggles as she fights magical threats with little more than experience and bravado." ~ Publisher's Weekly

"...Cassie Scot is an enjoyable and unique take to the contemporary fantasy genre. It is also a solid detective tale. This blend of genres will appeal to a broad range of readers. It is an easy recommendation for a weekend escape." ~ The Midwest Book Review

Cassie Scot was a Finalist in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category in 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

She was born into magic, but she has none of her own…

Cassie Scot is the normal daughter of powerful sorcerers, born between worlds but belonging to neither. She strives to find a place for herself, but living in the shadow of her family’s reputation isn’t easy. All she wants is a nice, normal job, but her dreams of independence from magic are threatened when she stumbles upon the gruesome body of sixteen-year-old Nancy Hastings.

Cassie is plunged into a paranormal investigation which gets her tangled up with the victim’s powerful family, the Blackwoods. Dark, dangerous, and handsome Evan Blackwood tempts Cassie deeper into a world she seeks to escape. Yet Evan – and magic itself – may not be ready to let her go.

“When sorcerers call the shots, what’s a girl without powers to do? Get ready for a ripper of a murder mystery full of romance and intrigue, where magic potions bubble, passions spark and vampires are definitely not your friend. Cassie Scot: ParaNormal Detective grabs you by the heart and won’t let go until the very last page. Well-written, immersive and unputdownable. This is urban fantasy at its best. More please!”
~ Kim Falconer, bestselling author of The Spell of Rosette
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From Publisher's Weekly:"In this entertaining series opener, Amsden (The Immortality Virus) introduces readers to the eponymous Cassie, a decidedly mundane member of a magical family. ...Readers will enjoy Cassie's fish-out-of-water struggles as she fights magical threats with little more than experience and bravado." Kim Falconer, bestselling author of The Spell of Rosette, Quantum Enchantment Series, had this to say:"When sorcerers call the shots, what's a girl without powers to do? Get ready for a ripper of a murder mystery full of romance and intrigue, where magic potions bubble, passions spark and vampires are definitely not your friend. Cassie Scot: ParaNormal Detective grabs you by the heart and won't let go until the very last page. Well written, immersive and unputdownable. This is urban fantasy at its best. More please!"Midwest Book Review: Cassie Scot is a fun and interesting take on a magical fantasy world existing within the real. It is a mix of the popular fantasy stories and a solid whodunit. It fits between the children fantasies of JK Rowling and the adult tales of Charlaine Harris -- a bit closer to Sookie than Harry. The plotline is light and the mystery is sound. What makes the story work is the solid world creation Amsden has built.

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In a world of sorcery, what's a girl without magic to do?
Amidst mystery, romance, and family feuds, this "new adult" series shows us that there are many types of strength, and many ways to be a hero. Cassie is smart, compassionate, clever, and brave. Yet she is burdened by doubt because she is the only member of her large family without magical powers. She calls herself a "normal detective," but there is little normal about her.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00C7VR69I
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Twilight Times Books; 1st edition (April 15, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 15, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1025 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 241 ratings

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Christine Amsden

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Christine is the award-winning author of The Immortality Virus (2011), Touch of Fate (2007), and the Cassie Scot series...

The Original Quartet:

Cassie Scot: ParaNormal Detective (Cassie Scot Book One)

Secrets and Lies (Cassie Scot Book Two)

Mind Games (Cassie Scot Book Three)

Stolen Dreams (Cassie Scot Book Four)

The Spin-Offs:

Madison's Song (Cassie Scot Book Five)

Kaitlin's Tale (Cassie Scot Book Six)

Frozen (Cassie Scot BookSeven)

Christine has been writing science fiction and fantasy for as long as she can remember. She loves to write and it is her dream that others will be inspired by this love and by her stories. Speculative fiction is fun, magical, and imaginative but great speculative fiction is about real people defining themselves through extraordinary situations. Christine writes primarily about people and it is in this way that she strives to make science fiction and fantasy meaningful for everyone.

At the age of 16, Christine was diagnosed with Stargardt's Disease, a condition that effects the retina and causes a loss of central vision. She is now legally blind, but has not let this slow her down or get in the way of her dreams.

In addition to writing, Christine teaches workshops on writing at Savvy Authors. She also does some freelance editing work.

Christine currently lives in the Kansas City area with her husband, Austin, who has been her biggest fan and the key to her success. They have two beautiful children.

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L. Jenkins
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast-paced, well-phrased, and stunningly original
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2013
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One of the funniest and at the same time heart-wrenching stories I have read this year. Fabulously original, Cassie's family is large, rambunctious, and dysfunctional. Her parents are talented magic wielder's, often distracted by other concerns, as are each of her six younger siblings. The magic gene seems to have missed Cassie entirely, which makes her standing in the family pecking order awkward, to say the least. Thankfully, Cassie is blessed with acute intelligence, an inquisitive nature, and an upbeat personality. She is a force to be reckoned with because, though she cannot cast spells, she is highly proficient at minimizing or even neutralizing incantations intended to harm her or others. Quite simply, Cassie is a remarkable young woman and tenacious detective.

Fast-paced, well-phrased, and stunningly original, this book sets up the opening to a series that embraces small-town dynamics and large family histrionics giving readers the opportunity to root for a heroine both familiar to, yet decidedly different from the norm. I cannot wait to dig into the second book to see what is in store for Cassie next.

I purchased this book for myself on Amazon.

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Mike Reeves-McMillan
4.0 out of 5 stars A fine job of urban fantasy writing
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2013
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I'm a big urban fantasy fan, and a big indie fiction fan, but it's very seldom that the two meet. There's plenty of paranormal romance in the indie world (too much, I think), but not so much UF for some reason. So I was delighted to find this well-written piece of urban fantasy with a strong and appealing main character published by an indie author.

The cover looks a little YA to me, but (one of the advantages of indie publication: the author gets to decide these things) the female protagonist illustrated on it isn't showing large amounts of tattooed skin. On the YA issue, this book is what is now sometimes called "new adult", meaning that the protagonist is out of high school but still young. Personally, I think the age (and gender) of the protagonist is a silly basis for genre classification, or audience segmentation, for that matter, and as a 45-year-old man I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Further on genre, just to get it out of the way: yes, there is a strong romance subplot. It is a subplot, though, placing this on the urban fantasy side of the UF/PNR line. The main plot is the mystery of the vampire attacks which the protagonist, a self-described "normal detective" working her first independent case, must solve in order to protect her town.

She's "normal" because, unlike the rest of her family and a number of other people in town, she has no sorcerous powers. This is a major plot thread, as you'd imagine. It's tricky to place a non-powered normal human in a setting where just about everyone else is more powerful than she is and have her remain a viable and believable protagonist, but this author pulls it off.

She also pulls off the tricky combination of a confident, capable and independent-minded young woman who is also self-doubting, worried, inexperienced and used to being dependent on her powerful and wealthy family. I felt she kept that balance well, and it didn't break my suspension of disbelief at any point. The character is also courageous and wants to help others, even at risk to herself, which is how I like my heroes of either gender.

At one moment halfway through, I was very much afraid that we were going to get the trope of "young woman protagonist makes stupid, headstrong decision that puts her in harm's way in order to ramp up the plot tension, and has to be rescued by a man to ramp up the romantic tension". It's a trope that occurs again and again in UF/PNR, and, my wife tells me, also in the non-paranormal female forensic investigator genre. I hate that trope with a burning hatred, and was deeply relieved when the author turned out to just be messing with me. I felt that the trope was successfully avoided, or at least softened enough that it fitted with the character's generally sensible and practical demeanour.

I found the minor characters believable as real people and not just cardboard cutouts, too. The plot was sufficiently intricate, and the mystery progressed at a good pace. The setting was a fairly standard UF one, with magic-users and vampires (I think werewolves were alluded to as well, and contact with the dead), but with some nice variation in terms of the "talents" that people exhibited. It put me in mind of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files or C.E. Murphy's Walker Papers, and I can't really offer higher praise than that.

There were a couple of dozen mostly minor editing issues. I've connected with the author on Google+ (after I bought the book) and have let her know about them, so they will probably be fixed before too long and I won't detail them here. Otherwise, great stuff, and I'll be getting the next one.
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Shasta Mosley
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful read for all ages
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2013
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I was given the opportunity to read and review Cassie Scot: Paranormal Detective by Christine Amsden. Let me just start off by saying, this is a wonderful book for all ages. I have absolutely fallen in love with the book and the characters. Immediately the book drew me in to the world of Ms. Cassie Scot. Cassie is the eldest daughter of a very powerful, magical family. Unfortunately, Cassie is not magical herself. Cassie was born with no magical powers at all, unlike those of her 6 brothers and sisters and her parents. Living in an area with sorcerers and vampires, Cassie is just really trying to live a normal life.

"I've been called a lot of things on my life: normal, ordinary, and even a disappointment. After the Harry Potter books came out, a couple of people called me a squib. Since I haven't read them I have to assume it's a compliment.
Personally, I prefer normal, which is why the sign on my office door reads: Cassie Scot, Normal Detective."

This story has everything, forbidden love, mystery, murder. Cassie begins a case to try to serve a subpoena to a town member, who is of the paranormal kind, and stumbles along a murder of a family member of her former best friend Evan Blackwood. Evan, who is also a powerful sorcerer, enlists Cassie in helping him find his cousin's killer. Along the way Cassie seems to develop feelings for Evan, but is warned against them by not only her family, but also her friends.
Now before I go and give too much away on this book, my suggestion to everyone is go get and read the book. You will not be disappointed. And trust me, Amsden will leave you wanting more. I can't wait until the next book in series becomes available. She has a wonderful hit on her hands.
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Southern Bibliophile
3.0 out of 5 stars Not sure about this female
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2017
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l'm having problems relating to the female character as she's way too naïve, immature, and sheltered still at the ripe age of 21. Also, the narrators voice is so deep that i cant tell when shes switching voices between characters, she's also too close to being monotone. Whoever chose this narrator didn't really pay attention to their reading/listening audience.

There is an unexpected twist that her parents throw at her, which i can see blowing anyone's mind. So, as I'm not done with the book, im not impressed so far with how Cassie is handling it but I'll update this review once I've finished.

ok seriously, how does a newly turned vampire, who was previously a small town doctor, hold his own against an experienced vampire hunter who supposedly can fight (hand-to-hand combat??). Strength is all very good but if you know how to use it against a person, there should be no contest.
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Have Book Will Read
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2015
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Loved it! Great story, fab writing and I can't wait to read the other books by Christine Amsden. Wow.
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AllySophia
5.0 out of 5 stars This book was just the best.
Reviewed in Australia on May 17, 2014
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I read all three books this weekend... There is so much to love about this series.
Serious and uber alpha Evan. Strong and independent (yet endearingly vulnerable) Cassie Scot. And the entire world of socerory that Amsden has dreamed up.

Obviously a seriously skilled writer, with an amazing imagination at work.
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Darklldo
2.0 out of 5 stars I'm sorry but...
Reviewed in Australia on March 15, 2015
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Sadly I found this insipid. Somehow it falls flat.
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