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Boundary Haunted

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This was another great book from Ms Olson and I couldn't put it down. Seeing Lex in Atlanta, a town where I once lived, was very exciting. Love how much research Ms Olson does for her books, that you can really picture the locations while you're reading. Lex is still recovering from the events in the last book, and it looks like her powers are changing up. I really loved this book series and I hope we get to see more!

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I love everything Melissa Olsen writes abs I was thrilled to read this latest installment! The old world she has created is fast and fun and different, and the stories are so great! Keep writing Melissa!

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i really enjoyed reading this book, I had enjoyed the first books in the series so I was looking forward to reading this one. The characters work and I really enjoyed this adventure.

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Months after her battles in Wyoming, Allison “Lex” Luther is still struggling with the aftereffects of the psychic attack she suffered—and with the new developments in her own magic. Then Lex’s boss, the cardinal vampire of Colorado, passes along a strange request from her counterpart in Atlanta. Hundreds of Civil War spirits have abruptly vanished in Beau Calhoun’s territory, and he wants Lex to figure out why. In exchange, Beau can help her understand boundary magic, which runs in his family line as well. Despite her trepidation, Lex journeys to the Deep South, where she discovers that ghosts are everywhere…and that her host’s intentions are more complicated than he promised. It seems his teenage descendant is being hunted, and both Beau and Lex fear the young woman’s boundary blood may have made her a target. With Atlanta’s history looming over her every move, Lex will have to face Beau’s ghosts—and her own—to prevent a boundary magic attack she never dreamed possible.
This was a pretty good book. The story was well paced. I hadn’t read this author before so I wasn’t sure what to expect, especially with it being so far in the series. I really enjoyed it though and will probably be going back and reading the first few. I recommend.
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Lex is still suffering from the psychic attack on her. Despite her misgivings she agrees to go to the deep south to see why hundreds of ghosts are materializing there. In exchange beau will help lex to understand her boundary magic more. Things get complicated and it seems the problem was perhaps a big bigger than beau let on. This book is amazing. The story is complicated but very exciting. The characters have come into their own. The non-stop action and the author's attention to detail makes this a first rate urban fantasy.

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I only recently discovered this author and am so very glad I did! I love this wonderful series and recommend this installment to anyone who loves a great storyline, imaginative characters, and fantasy worlds.

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Boundary Haunted reminded me why I love Melissa F. Olson’s storytelling!

Lex is suffering from a form a PTSD, after a physic attack leaves her reeling a previous installment. So, when her boss, Maven, asks her to go to Atlanta to help another vampire, Beau Calhoun with a ghost problem, Lex is conflicted. Ghosts are disappearing and its up to Lex and her boundary magic to find them, the same magic she is now afraid to us.

Lex is left surfing through a city filled with ghosts, human interference, witch magic and a difficult vampire on her own, until Maven sends her Tobias.

I found Boundary Haunted highly engaging, with lots of action, intense situations and an amazing original plot that DELIVERS the wow factor every urban fantasy reader is looking for!

I received this ARC copy of Boundary Haunted from 47North. This is my honest and voluntary review.

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What an AWESOME addition to Lex's story! I've been wondering when she was going to start getting a better handle on her powers and this story was just fantastic, adding a whole new dimension to the series! WONDERFUL! Brava!

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Boundary Haunted is the fifth book of the Boundary Magic series by Melissa F. Olson. In this book, Allison goes down to Atlanta and deals with missing Civil War ghosts.

I liked this book a lot and thought it was very good. It was nice to see Lex go to Atlanta. I liked Lex a lot as a character.

Will have to read the other books in the series to get caught up. This is the first book I read of the series.

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I was glad I found this book. I thought it was very good. Lex has to move outside of her comfort zone in this one. With it being in the south I found it very good at describing things I am familiar with. Some of the characters took me by surprise. I am glad they did. It kept the story interesting. The ending was one I wasn't expecting. Very good for it being a 5th book.

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Don't worry if you don't understand boundary witches, no one else does either. Allison “Lex” Luther has to explain herself to the supernatural community to overcome their historical fear, yet at the same time she has to ask her mentors what's going on. It's uncharted territory, really. Which means that you can treat this as a standalone if you want.

Lex is asked to go to Atlanta for a special mission. While she's there she gets involved with civil war history and civil war ghosts. She's attacked and lives through it to fight another day, of course.

This series is ok, but it will not knock your socks off if you have been reading this kind of book for a while.

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I loved this book! I don't typically start my reviews this way but this book was fantastic! I've felt like the series was stagnating a little bit and this book has renewed by interested in the series. It kept me turning pages and I honestly finished it in one sitting. I love how lex is developing and how you see a chink in her armour in this book. It makes her feel real and less like a character in a book. The setting was interesting and a nice change. I also enjoy the fact that Lex is on her own most of this story. Sorting out her own way versus relying on her friends, though they do come in toward the end. The ending was as predictable as this series has been in the past.

Overall I'd highly suggest this book and series to anyone looking for a good read.

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I love Melissa F Olson's boundary magic series, and this one is my new favorite. The book takes place in Atlanta, where Lex has gone to help the cardinal vampire there figure out why the ghosts of the Confederate dead are going missing in large numbers and put a stop to it. This is a little different since Lex usually helps to send ghosts on, but Beau Calhoun (the cardinal vampire), loves his ghosts, who fought and died for the Confederacy with him. Lex meets a new group of witches, his living family (Beau's teenaged many times removed great niece who lives with him), and his vampire lieutenants who also died the first time in the Civil War. I loved that Beau still loves horses. There is a large cast of possible villains and very few people that Lex can trust, not even Beau..

In my opinion, this is the best so far in the boundary magic series, and I highly recommend it. Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for allowing me to read and review this book.

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Solid addition to the series. Main character travels to the South, specifically to Atlanta. New characters, the main vampire of Atlanta and a trumpet player he employs, are set up in a way that makes it seem they will feature in future books. The old characters provide support to the boundary witch in the end chapters of the novel.

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This book was near perfect in my mind - filled with mystery, action, paranormal tough chick goodness, and everything that makes Lex awesome. If you're joining this show already in progress, I'd recommend you back it up and start with Book#1. This world has a lot of baggage you'll want to unpack.

Lex is beautifully broken in this book. She's human (kind-of), so she's actually showing the strain of the traumatic events she's recently gone through. Shocker, right? Usually we power through and the tough girls just ignore what's bothering them. Don't get me wrong - Lex tries the ignore option, but supernatural drama puts her in the unique place to face her fears and accept an out of town assignment that will involve lots and lots of ghosts. You know, the thing that traumatized her in her most recent death defying adventure.

Right after she shows up, it's clear that the job was not truthfully explained. Beau, the local crazy head honcho vampire, also sees ghosts, so these two have something in common. They begrudgingly develop a bit of respect for one another, only to have everything get turned on its head and go badly. There's injuries, not Dresden-level ones, but still, these books are filled with wounds, both physically and emotionally. I fell more in love with Lex in this one, though, and now I'm firmly Team Lex.

Since this is a road trip type book, we don't get everyone for as much as you'd expect - namely Quinn and Maven. I think this was a nice change and gave us a chance to see Lex as her own person. Maybe that's why I think I liked this book best so far out of the series? It was nice to be pretty surprised by a book that's 5 into this series and several into this world. I can't wait to see what Lex does next!

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I didn't realize I was jumping into a series in the middle...but this book was pretty easy to get through, regardless, through the context. I was familiar with another related series by the same author, so I did have some of the background.

Lex is an awesome character who knows where she stands, won't back down, and pushes herself to achieve. The main conflict felt a little contrived to me, but it worked overall.

Generally recommended, and especially if you're a fan of Melissa F. Olson's other series.

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Boundary Haunted is the 5th book in the Boundary series. In this book Lex goes to Atlanta. Melissa F Olson does an amazing job building her characters. By this book, all of the regular characters feel like friends. Plus, I love how other people from the Scarlett series can always make a cameo or be referenced. However, now I want to reread all of the books and the short stories. There was one or two tiny places I felt like the story stumbled a little, but on the whole, I really liked the book. I hope there will be many more. Thank yu to Netgalley for the early release.

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This is my first book by Melissa Olson and it is the fifth installment in the old world series. I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review and jumped right in with this one. I feel because Lex was in a different setting it didn't hold me back. I did miss out on a lot of background and history with the characters but that just made intrigued enough to buy the first book so I can catch up.

I really enjoyed this book and I never saw the person doing this coming it was a big reveal for me.

I love Lex her character is honest and believable and her powers are very intriguing. I highly suggest this book if you haven't read it. But deffinatly start at the beginning of the series most readers wil l want the backstory I've missed out on.

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I love Melissa F Olson's Old World series and I was so delighted to have a chance to read an early copy from Net Galley and provide an honest review.

This Atlanta setting takes Lex further away from Colorado than she's ever been, and I missed her usual cast of secondary characters like Quinn, Maven, and Charlie. However, the setting imbued by literal specters of the Civil War was fascinating and it was a fair trade-off to get to experience this unique setting.

This book built on so much of the Old World lore, which makes it a rich entry in the series but also made me want to go back to re-read and immerse myself in all the complex politics and family dynamics. I'm not sure how well it would work as a standalone or entry point, though there is plenty of well woven exposition.

I really enjoyed reading this book, even if it didn't give me the same do-not-interrupt-me-I-will-snap-at-you highs of Boundary Broken. I think it was because even as the story built on everything that came before, there was also so much new that came in, and maybe I was just wanting to hang out with the prior cast of characters. So, a me problem.

This book is another great adventure in the Old World series, and I can't wait to read more of Lex's journey!

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Lex is back and she isn't in Colorado anymore.

Lex is still having issues with the events in BOUNDARY BROKEN. She is having nightmares and she want's nothing to do with ghosts. Unfortunately she is needed in Atlanta and there are a lot of ghosts there.

I love Lex, but I also love the rest of her gang. We don't get much of them in BOUNDARY HAUNTED, but I didn't miss them as much as I thought they would. The storyline had a great flow and the action kept me waiting to see what would happen next. I had an inkling of what was happening early on, but the reveal was still great.

Another thing that interested me about BOUNDARY HAUNTED was learning a little more about Quinn's human past. I feel like we might be leading up to maybe more with him and the people he left behind when he was turned? Just a vibe I was getting.

I always enjoy Lex's adventures. I look forward to seeing where Olson takes her next.

* This book was provided free of charge from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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