The Midnight Pack

• Author: Jasmine Kuliasha
• Genre: Urban Fantasy
• Publication Date: May 27, 2025
• Publisher: Orbit
• Series: Jericho James #1

Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for providing me with an ALC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Beauty and the Beast meets Supernatural in the first book of this new urban fantasy detective series!

Jericho James is in over her head. 

She’s a Private Investigator famed for debunking mythical creature sightings, and she expects her latest case in Stillbridge, Maine to be just another instance of “town who cried wolf.” But instead of finding a poorly judged animal in the Northeastern woods, Jericho discovers a family of reclusive scientists. Handsome scientists, no less, working on a cure for a mystery virus.

Intrigued by the virus and utterly captivated by Benjamin–a man with cheekbones that must have been chiseled by God himself–Jericho finds she’s dying to learn more about the family and their work. 

And when she accidentally discovers the family’s secret, she might just get her wish. 

Follow Jericho James as she solves cryptid crimes, stops mythical misdeeds, and blocks otherworldly outrages. And maybe, if she has time, find love along the way. 

This sounded like an awesome book, and as many of my favorites do, seemed to straddle various genres simultaneously. In this book, the author beautifully merges mystery, romance, urban fantasy, and paranormal events. But the thing that stood out to me the most was that it seemed like a nice, simple read, which we all need sometimes, right? I was also reading a terribly sad nonfiction ebook at the time, and this was perfect to switch to when the ebook got too heavy. Lucky for me, that worked out perfectly!

To start with, Jericho James is a funny, sarcastic, badass. She is a PI that is called in to whenever something supernatural occurs, similar to the Rivers of London series where the Folly is called in for ‘Code Falcon’ crimes, aka paranormal events. Jericho is smart, crafty, perceptive, and determined. While she still isn’t sure about there being any paranormal creature to be found, she still gives it her full attention. Until she stumbles upon one of the family members, Ben. Right from their first meeting, there are sparks flying everywhere. He brings her to his house, and mixed responses from the family members follow. The four men, three brothers and their father, live in an isolated house fairly deep into the forest. Not only are they handsome, they’re scientists working on developing a cure to a virus. 

Jericho is more of a go with the flow kind of woman, and doesn’t really question further as I would have expected her to. Maybe it’s because I know what to expect from books—I figured out early on what the ‘mystery creature’ was going to be, and I was right. That didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the book, and sometimes I enjoy a book where some of the twists are predictable.

There is a lust-at-first-sight situation, but I appreciated that the characters didn’t act on it until they really got to know each other. It made the relationship feel more realistic as Jericho and Benjamin really became comfortable and familiar together, although the sexual tension was off the charts throughout the book. I loved the way the author wrote the interactions between characters, making them feel genuine, whether it was between Ben and his brothers, their father and his sons, Ben and Jericho, or even Jericho and the other brothers. 

Overall, this was a fun read, and the perfect light kind of read for between my heavy fantasy and history reads. I flew through the audiobook, narrated by Sarah Beth Goer, who did a wonderful job with the story, keeping me glued to my phone until I finished reading it. If you’re looking for a good intro to monster romance, this is the book for you, with its urban fantasy, paranormal romance vibes. I am so glad that I got the opportunity to read this one, since I probably wouldn’t have heard of it otherwise. 

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