4.4 (1,036 ratings)

Veiled: An Ada Palomino Novel

Name: Veiled: An Ada Palomino Novel
Rating: 4.4 (1036 reviews)
Author: Karina Halle
ISBN: B01J8C12ZC

by Karina Halle

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About this book

An Amazon Top 100 Bestseller!

She just wanted a normal life.

He had other plans for her.

VEILED is a standalone paranormal romance/urban fantasy/horror from the New York Times bestselling author of The Pact and Sins & Needles. WARNING: this book contains scenes of violence, sex, and crude language.

Death.

It's something that Ada Palomino has always known so well, having grown up in a house of horrors, surrounded by a family plagued by ghosts and demons and things that go bump in the night.

But after the sudden and tragic death of her mother two years ago, death has never felt so personal.

Or so close.

Now eighteen, Ada is trying to move on with her life and the last month of summer holds nothing but sunshine and promises with her first year at a Portland design school just around the bend.

That is until her increasingly violent and realistic dreams, dreams of other worlds, of portals and veils where her mother is tortured and souls bleed for mercy, start to blend into reality. Ada has to lean on her older sister, Perry, to try and make sense of it all but even then, she's never felt more alone.

Then there's Jay. Tall, handsome and deeply mysterious, Jay would be just another stranger, a familiar face on the bus, if it wasn't for the fact that Ada has met him before.

Every night.

In every single dream.

And the more that Ada is drawn to him in both worlds, the more she's in danger of losing everything.

Including her heart.

And her very soul.

Publication Date: May 25, 2026
ASIN: B01J8C12ZC

Reader Reviews

Ada Palomino Gets Her Own Story...a little sexy, a little scary, and a whole lot of wow!

August 3, 2016

4-4.5 stars Rating: R/MA for dark, paranormal/demon themes and some steam First off, let me say that I'm a tough rater. Most books I read are rated at 3 stars, maybe 3.5 stars. I've rated very few books as 4 stars or above, because I believe the books have to be really amazing to get that rating. So a 4-4.5 star rating for Veiled means that I think this book is AMAZING! And I really, really like it! The Author, Karina Halle, is an amazing talent who writes across multiple genres seamlessly....

Ada is all grown up.

February 1, 2021

I loved that Ada got her own book and has her own story separate from Perry. I loved Veiled. It was super mysterious and creepy. It was sexy and I loved the slow burn and the build up. I know this is only the beginning for Ada but I felt it was a good beginning. It is a great lead in to Ghosted! I feel like there is so much more to be explored. I loved that we got glimpses of Perry and Dex. ❤️ Veiled is technically a standalone but I feel like you should read EIT before Veiled. Why? A) because...

Little Fifteen has grown up and coming into her own. Ada Palomino is unleashing her power!

August 3, 2016

I am a huge Karina Halle fan. I started with her Experiment In Terror series several years ago. I anxiously awaited for each new release. It was very hard to see this series end. The EIT series ended exactly the way it should have and left readers satisfied that Dex and Perry were going to have their happily ever after. It also left a character hanging in the background screaming for her own story. Little Fifteen, otherwise known as Ada Palomino, was coming into her own. It was clear she had...

Surrender to Ada and Jay. Trust me, their world is full of surprises!

July 31, 2016

This book! Wow. This book had everything. Paranormal, suspense, angst, romance, laugh out loud moments and skin crawling scary moments. See? seriously everything! Paranormal/urban fantasy type genre isn't my norm. I actually said that earlier this year with another author's book as well. But if you can write it and write it well, I will read it and hopefully others that haven't crept out of their norm will as well. First, I adore Halle's books. She can seriously write anything and write it...

3.5 stars

January 5, 2017

I'll be honest, nothing can compare to Dex & Perry. Their books were fantastic. Now, Ada's was pretty good. In some ways it lacked, because she was in fact so young (18). But she did grow up a bit throughout the book, (who wouldn't?) I enjoyed the story line, but for some reason, I just could not get on board with Jay, or their \"Jacob\" relationship. I felt she was kind of selfish in pushing him to increase his feelings towards her, even though it might make him revert make to Silas. And that...