We follow Delilah this book – and how her life has
changed. Following a skunk-inspired make-over and realising that her relationship
with the now nigh-immortal Chase is coming to a close, she enters a new chapter
of her life with the Autumn Lord – and his sexy representative.
Along the way, they have a kidnapped werewolf to rescue,
a spirit seal to find and some dangerous werecoyotes to thwart. And, of course,
there’s still the Bonecrusher to defeat – and she’s bringing the fight to the
sisters’ home.
This series is HUUUUUUUUUUUGE!
And I don’t just mean number of books. I can tackle several books. But it’s HUUUUUGE within those books. It has a vast cast of characters and the author has really gone out of her way to ensure every single one of those characters is a character. They’re not just names. They have things happening in their lives. They have lives, they have issues, they have their own stories and battles and causes.
Which is certainly good in some ways, don’t get me wrong! But there are a gazillion billion trillion of them all handling their stuff at the same time. Ok, maybe not handling their stuff, but certainly mentioning their stuff at least.
This goes along with a huge amount of recapping. A truly
vast amount of recapping – and so much has happened in each sister’s life and
the story in general that some of it is helpful – but it adds to the
unwieldiness, bogs down the pacing and drags the story down.
There’s also still a problem with the writing. It has
IMMENSELY improved since earlier books, don’t get me wrong, especially the
fight scenes (though I still think we see far more of what everyone else is
doing in combat than is realistic or necessary) but we still have things like
the group meetings where everything is reiterated (again, not nearly as bad).
The worst habit remaining though are clothes, cares and scenary. They can drive
from A to B without me knowing exactly how they’re getting there, I don’t need
to know what car they’re driving or who is in what car and I really really
really don’t need to know what clothes everyone is wearing all the time. By
this stage, we know what clothes everyone habitually wears, take it as a given.
