666 Park Avenue
A Novel
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3.7 • 190 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
“Both chilling and chic, frightening, yet fashionable—pure evil has never been this much fun!”
—New York Times bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks,
“Dark secrets and truly wicked socialites—666 Park Avenue is a thrill to the very last page.”
—New York Times bestselling author Zoey Dean
Elite Upper East Side Witches Rule Park Avenue! 666 Park Avenue by Gabriella Pierce kicks off a wonderfully high concept and richly gothic contemporary series about the darkness lurking behind the gilded halls of New York City high society. For the original Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries fan who’s grown up and is ready for an edgier, more sophisticated read, 666 Park Avenue is the perfect paranormal diversion.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rosemary's Baby meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this breezy chick lit thriller about an American in Paris swept off her feet by a rich-and-good-looking New Yorker with some very dangerous secrets. Then again, aspiring architectural designer Jane Boyle has some hidden skeletons of her own, which she discovers when her estranged grandmother Celine leaves a death-note revelation that clueless Jane comes from a long line of witches. What follows as Jane moves with her handsome fianc Malcolm Doran to Manhattan's Upper East Side is a frightening cascade of wickedness that forces Jane to match witchy wits with Malcolm's mom-from-hell, Lynne, negotiate a mansion-full of Mean Girls and a Boo Radley-like stalker and test drive her own considerable powers. A scary face-off between Jane and Lynne is both hilarious and exciting. And though the frantic and elaborate finale may leave the future of fledgling witch Jane in question, first-time author Pierce neatly leaves open a creaky, spooky door for a slew of sequels for fans of gothic social climbing and the supernatural.
Customer Reviews
There better be a sequel!!
I only gave it three stars because there are so many loose ends!!! There better be a sequel!
Disappointing
For most of this novel the reading experience was not unpleasant: light, frothy, insubstantial, entertaining enough; maybe a 3/5 rating. Unfortunately my rating plummeted to 1/5 (rather wish 0 was an option) in the last several pages. Why? It turns out that this is not a complete story within it's own (electronic) bindings, but rather forms Part One of an impending series. Now being part of a series is not inherently heinous, however the failure to disclose to potential readers that the book under their consideration is, in fact, part of a larger and as-yet-incomplete entity is annoying. Highly annoying. Not to mention that the novel as presented feels quite brief and I'm not convinced of the legitimacy of fragmenting it into a multiple-parter. Not recommended.
Very enjoyable!
A sweet, simple read that keeps one's interest.