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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
DD Lorenzo’s The Hotel follows Amelia Daniels, head of Daniels Enterprises, after the board of her woman-owned construction firm warns that her staff may walk away. Amelia has built the company through long workdays and refuses to accept fate as anything but an excuse. However, a midnight search leads to a vanishing website for a place called The Hotel. The next morning, her assistant Sophie brings a black envelope holding a card with a golden key. After an email arrives at 4:44 and the board asks for another meeting, Amelia chooses the strange invitation over the office. A limousine takes her through iron gates to a building that seems to know her tastes and the buried truth behind the life she has made before she even speaks.
DD Lorenzo’s The Hotel is gorgeous supernatural fiction, and Lorenzo makes the building intimate and personal, all while keeping its danger close. I love how The Hotel becomes a character, changing rooms as Amelia resists what it asks her to see. Esme, the steward who guides chosen guests, is excellent because she never treats magic as a spectacle; she treats it as a doorway into truth. Juliette Armand’s journal gives the book an older heartbeat, with the shipwrecked countess recording her own arrival at The Haven long before Amelia receives her key. The best part is the mirror room, where Lysander, an Architect beyond The Veil, meets Vesper, a Shroud who wants Amelia to remain unchanged. Well written and immersive, readers who enjoy supernatural fiction about magical hotels with hidden pasts will adore this book.
