Maggie G. reviewed on 1/15/2014 + 72 more book reviews

This was recommended as being "like the Dresden Files" (Jim Butcher) and on the surface they're very similar. But much as I wanted to like this series, I found myself disappointed. The pace is slower, there's less humor...and I found the hero, Alex Verus, explaining himself and his reasoning A LOT. That made the book drag for me - I did go on to read the second in this series (because first novels can be flawed :), but found myself speed reading to get to the end. I like the characters a lot and wanted to know what happened to them, but I didn't want to take the long way 'round. In this book's defense, perhaps I wasn't in the right mood for it but I'm sticking with Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne.

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