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Midnight Auto Parts by Hailey Edwards Narrator: Candace Joice
Series: The Body Shop #3
Published by Tantor Audio on May 20, 2025
Genres: Urban Fantasy
Length: 10 hours, 13 minutes
Format: Audiobook
Source: Publisher
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The whole dying thing sucked, but Frankie isn’t going to dwell. She’s focusing on the positive. She’s alive. Ish. Her family is safe. Her business is booming. She’s even got a boyfriend. Everything is coming up roses in Thunderbolt, Georgia.
Until a client decides she needs more time and makes a run for it in her loaner body. Too bad for the client, the last thing Frankie does before a loaner hits the showroom floor is microchip them for this very reason. Finding the runaway soul will be a piece of cake.
The Body Shop series is one best read in order because of the character growth and story arc as is typical in urban fantasy. Frankie died in the previous story and came back. She is getting used to her new status and abilities. Her relationship with Kierce is developing.
Things start off with one of her “bodies” going rogue and she will have to go do the repo. Frankie tracks them and then they disappear leaving her vehicle. She calls Carter to process the scene for any clues to anyone who might have taken them. Carter has been trying to find other women who have disappeared. Frankie finds a brochure but isn’t sure it has anything to do with it.
The brochure does have to do with their disappearance. There turns out to be a group to help abused women get away. But they are going away to a place with magical wards. The wards were made by items belonging to a god and the god is stalking the women for payment / punishment .
It was engaging to see Frankie with a bit of help from Kierce and Carter find the women, learn enough from the god to assist the women while learning about herself. She doesn’t understand her abilities but she actually has more power than Kierce now, apparently due to her parents. Frankie doesn’t know about them though.
Midnight Auto Parts seemed well paced and engaging. The ending leaves us with more to learn about Frankie and her history as well. Things have changed and her role will be different going forward.
Narration:
The narrator was new to me for this series. I am really comfortable with her voices for the characters giving them personality. I appreciated her voices being appropriate for males and the females. The males were deeper, or stronger. I listened at 1.75x speed.
Listen to a clip: HERE
About Hailey Edwards
Hailey Edwards writes about questionable applications of otherwise perfectly good magic, the transformative power of love, the family you choose for yourself, and blowing stuff up. Not necessarily all at once. That could get messy. She lives in Alabama with her husband, their daughter, and a herd of dachshunds.
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I read all types of books but my favorites are urban fantasy and romantic suspense.I like some romance and some action / adventure / mystery in everything.I like sex in my books but please, only between TWO people.Intimate conversation is equally important to the sex in a book.It lets me see the characters.The other thing I enjoy is humor.
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Something about this reminds me of the Kate Daniels series. Glad you’re enjoying!
Well it’s not similar other than both UF set in Georgia. I like Hailey Edwards.
I just started this one last night, so I skipped your review to see your rating. I’m hoping this book is better that the last one – I was annoyed by the end. But I like the premise, so I want it to be good.
yes I have had mixed feelings about the various relationships. I wish a bit it was just sticking to the mysteries without the romance here.
This does sound really good.
I like this author.