Suzi

I'm a long time fan of this series and enjoyed this one as much as the others.

The reason this isn't a full 5 stars is the constant over explaining of everything, both in the dialogue between the characters and the general narration. I've noticed this in previous books but sort of looked past it, but it really grated in this one and distracted from the story.

One step forward and two steps back.Amara is out of the Wolf Den and things are looking up, but she soon finds out her patron is not the man she thought he was.I spent the majority of the book tensely waiting for the affair to be found out, but it ended up being so much worse. The thought of having to decide to leave her newborn daughter or risk Felix exposing who the father was, it's just unbearable.I cannot wait until someone, hopefully Britannica, kills Felix in a brutal and painful way.Onto the last book...

DNF @ 45%

I cannot believe I am DNFing a series half way through the final book, but here we are. I just can't bring myself to finish it.

This series had some positives but never really did enough to draw me in fully - a lot of themes and plot points were quite generic for the genre and the dialogue and characters were written too dramatic and obnoxious to enjoy it.

I did like some of the political aspects of the plot but by this point in the last book, it felt like nothing had changed but clearly with 50% left to go it was all going to tie up in a very probably predictable way. I just don't care.

The worst thing for me was the audiobook narrators - I know this shouldn't impact a book review, but I really feel like they made the dialogue (which was repetitive and cringey) even worse. It was so melodramatic and overdone, I have literal eye ache from all the eye rolling.

This wasn't my favourite in the series, but as always it's great to be back with Bruno and his adventures.