{"id":14200,"date":"2021-04-15T18:16:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T22:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=14200"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:39:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:39:20","slug":"a-haunting-at-midwinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14200","title":{"rendered":"A Haunting at Midwinter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Haunting at Midwinter<\/em> (2021) Kai Butler (San Amaro Investigations)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Haunting-at-Midwinter.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Haunting at Midwinter\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Haunting-at-Midwinter.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Haunting-at-Midwinter.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Parker Ferro is a supernatural PI. His case seems simple enough&#8211;exorcise the ghost haunting a popular rental. But someone has called the cops, claiming a prowler had broken into the house, so now Paker has to deal with a homophobic cop, an alchemist cop who doesn&#8217;t believe in ghosts, and a really angry spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The world is interesting, and although the world building didn&#8217;t tell us a lot, it was clear enough for a short novella. And the things I thought were weak points were most likely due to the shorter format. <\/p>\n<p>For instance, aside from being a bully, there weren&#8217;t really any signs King&#8217;s partner was homophobic, so Parker&#8217;s response didn&#8217;t make a lot of sense, except for letting King know Parker was gay&#8211;and to keep Richmond from searching his bag.<\/p>\n<p>Same for the kiss at the end. It wasn&#8217;t really logical, but as this was a romance short story, the author probably felt some romance was needed besides flirting.<\/p>\n<p>So, not bad, and I want to see more of the world building.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 6\/10<\/strong><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Haunting at Midwinter (2021) Kai Butler (San Amaro Investigations) Parker Ferro is a supernatural PI. His case seems simple enough&#8211;exorcise the ghost haunting a popular rental. But someone has called the cops, claiming a prowler had broken into the house, so now Paker has to deal with a homophobic cop, an alchemist cop who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292,2,196,148,26,16],"tags":[737,738,544],"class_list":["post-14200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-novella","category-queer","category-romance","category-supernatural","tag-ghosts","tag-holiday","tag-mm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-3H2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24337,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24337","url_meta":{"origin":14200,"position":0},"title":"A Kiss for Midwinter","author":"Michelle","date":"March 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A Kiss for Midwinter (2012) Courtney Milan (Brothers Sinister #1.5) Leicester, England 1864 This is one my my favorite historical novellas. 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