The book Gatekeeper takes the reader into a modern-fantasy realm where there is another world beside ours where deamons need to be monitored and taken in for reprogramming when they malfunction.

The story begins with the murder of a family line whose extinction should open a portal to allow greater deamons the ability to travel between realms. But since the portal doesn't open, that means there is a member of that specific line still alive. The hunt is on to find this woman before more sinister forces do. And perhaps with the help of a malfunctioning yet harmless daemon and a bonkers oracle, our hero might just be able to solve this case.

I enjoyed the simplistic world building, and how the plot remains open for more stories. I will definitely read more of this series.

This book fell pretty flat for me. The concept was interesting but the execution, not so much. The story follows Rachel Wilde who is a daemon catcher in this world of alternate dimensions. She gets an assignment to track down a gatekeeper- a woman who has the ability to trap a dangerous daemon in an alternate dimension. Rachel soon finds out that all is not it seems to be.
The characters were pretty bland, the dialogue was clunky. The world building could have been better, could have been less exposition heavy. The writing was easily digestible, it was quick to read and easy to get through.
The ending was quite abrupt. It felt like the author used this book just to set up pieces for the next one. The actual action is going to go down in the next book.

This was so much fun! Rachel is a great lead, taking charge with a lot of spunk, yet very likable. She might be annoyed and put out by being made a foster parent to a defective daemon, Catch, but it's really just the start of her troubles. By the way, I loved Catch, and want my own daemon. The fact that he can't be repaired leads to more mysteries and danger. Bach was also an interesting character, to say the least. I'm also looking forward to seeing more from him. The baddies are bad, ruthless, and brutal, and the action scenes intense because of that, and that end... OMG.

The story starts out fast and as things continue to pile on, it keeps the pace moving pretty fast. I was totally gripped, reading the whole story in one day. The world building is great, making the everything easy to imagine and the systems in place seem realistic despite it being supernatural.

A great series start for paranormal readers to devour. I'm looking forward to part two.

Alison Levy has written an interest grabbing supernormal start to a series that looks to be a lot of fun.
There are multiple dimensions - we learn that Rachel is an Arcanan, who works on locating and detaining broken 'daemons' in our world, which is known as the 'notan' dimension. The daemons are like little pokemon style spirits that exist to influence humans - there are riot daemons, petty theft daemons, joy daemons - the little whispers in your ear that prod you into an excess of emotion or desire to do something.
I love this idea (it feels like it is influenced by Japanese culture for sure).
We follow Rachel in her work week, which ends up being a lot more than she bargained for, with a defective daemon latching onto her, an oracle dogging her steps, and a simple assignment turning into a life or death situation.
The world building is fairly good - I was never confused about who was where, but I would have liked more expansion - however as this is first in a series I absolutely expect that in the next books.
I really, really loved the riot daemon! So cute!
The only issue I have is that Rachel has some serious anger management issues! She seems one step away from losing it all the time - i felt like her anger was disproportionate to the things that made her angry. It made her unlikeable at times. (also who wouldn't rescue a puppy under the porch?!!!!!)
I hope this is either explained or maybe tweaked a little in further books.
However, I devoured this book. And would happily recommend it to anyone that likes a supernatural series similar to Kim Harrison and others.
Will be watching out for book 2!