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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2018
*I received an ecopy of this book from the author. This has not influenced my review.*
I feel terrible for Cal. This poor man has been kidnapped multiple times, tortured, assaulted with mind magic, and injured more times than I can count. He has PTSD and anxiety/panic attacks, and it's no wonder. He's constantly ending up in no-win situations with tough decisions to make that leave him wracked with guilt, and although he has had some good things to help him through (like his teammates/friends and his relationship with Cooper), the problems, secrets, and dangers in his life just seem to be piling up. And he doesn't deserve any of it because he's a genuine, caring person who tries to be the best he can be, even if he does take it too far sometimes by taking on things that aren't his responsibility or his fault. I just want to give him a hug and then wave a magic wand to make things all better for him.
Anyway... This was another great book in the series. Another action-packed story with twists and turns and mysteries and magic. Each book is fast-paced with great characters, diversity, and oftentimes relevance to the real world. I don't know whether there's an overarching plot goal beyond stopping the various bad supernatural groups that Cal and the DSI have uncovered or what the end game might be, but there was a pretty big change at the end of this book that might shake things up quite a bit for the foreseeable future. I missed Cooper and Erica again, but I understand why they still weren't around, and I think both of them will be back in the story eventually, if not very soon.
We also got to learn more about how magic works in this world, how the witches, wizards, and magic practitioners use it, and that was cool. It was really interesting and detailed and clearly thought-out.
Overall, another great addition to this urban fantasy series, even if it did leave my heart breaking for poor Cal!
Rating: 4 Stars
Original Review @ Metaphors and Moonlight (link in profile)
I feel terrible for Cal. This poor man has been kidnapped multiple times, tortured, assaulted with mind magic, and injured more times than I can count. He has PTSD and anxiety/panic attacks, and it's no wonder. He's constantly ending up in no-win situations with tough decisions to make that leave him wracked with guilt, and although he has had some good things to help him through (like his teammates/friends and his relationship with Cooper), the problems, secrets, and dangers in his life just seem to be piling up. And he doesn't deserve any of it because he's a genuine, caring person who tries to be the best he can be, even if he does take it too far sometimes by taking on things that aren't his responsibility or his fault. I just want to give him a hug and then wave a magic wand to make things all better for him.
Anyway... This was another great book in the series. Another action-packed story with twists and turns and mysteries and magic. Each book is fast-paced with great characters, diversity, and oftentimes relevance to the real world. I don't know whether there's an overarching plot goal beyond stopping the various bad supernatural groups that Cal and the DSI have uncovered or what the end game might be, but there was a pretty big change at the end of this book that might shake things up quite a bit for the foreseeable future. I missed Cooper and Erica again, but I understand why they still weren't around, and I think both of them will be back in the story eventually, if not very soon.
We also got to learn more about how magic works in this world, how the witches, wizards, and magic practitioners use it, and that was cool. It was really interesting and detailed and clearly thought-out.
Overall, another great addition to this urban fantasy series, even if it did leave my heart breaking for poor Cal!
Rating: 4 Stars
Original Review @ Metaphors and Moonlight (link in profile)
