Strange New World

By: Shaw, Vivian

"Vivian Shaw knocks it out of the park yet again. If you aren't reading Dr. Greta Helsing, you're missing out." --T. Kingfisher, New York Times bestselling author of What Moves the Dead

"Deeply compassionate and endlessly surprising, this series will steal your heart." --Grace D. Li, New York Times bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief

In this witty conclusion to a delightful fantasy series finds Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, facing the latest and strangest challenge of her career...accompanying an anxious angel and a sullen demon on a road trip across America.

After narrowly avoiding the end of the world, the leaders of Heaven and Hell are struggling to collaborate according to the terms of their new treaty--especially because angels and demons are, quite literally, allergic to each other. Seeking a solution, the powers that be decide to see if the allergy persists on Earth by sending an angel and demon on a research trip, first stop: New York City. And what better chaperone than Dr. Greta Helsing, who happens to owe Hell a few favors of her own?

But there's unrest in New York's monster underworld and Greta and her team are about to land in the middle of it. Something is off in Heaven and on Earth, and Greta will have to figure out just what that is if she hopes to protect those she loves most.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316537977
• ISBN13: 9780316537971
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Orbit
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Love this whole series!

I love that we get one more book in this series! I would call these comfort reads even with the excitement of when something happens (though I guess the worst already did with the Armageddon in the last book with the nicely convenient reset into the strange new world where demons and angels are now working together, or at least trying to) because Greta always seems to be able to work with her friends to save the supernatural creatures that dwell on earth. You get to see what several of them are up to from the last book, Bitter Waters (the update to see how Lucy is doing being a ward of the great Dracula) while also taking a closer look at the angels and how Heaven has changed. That was interesting to see them evolve from something close to righteous unchanging robots, to ones that are a bit more human. And of course there has to be more Hell (and the very competent Doctor Faust) and their search to discover who is shooting poison darts at demons and other supernatural creatures. Plus there is a new area to be discovered on the way (New York) with a very old and cool Nosferatu vampire, Contini as a mobster regaining control over the city. I would happily read many more books set in this world! Even spin offs with the other characters like Ruthven and Lucy and their adventures living with Dracula or more of the New York scene with Contini or even Orlax and Adriel as they discover this strange new world! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read and review this book. I absolutely loved it!