A Shiver of Light

The Merry Gentry books have been one of my personal guilty pleasures for a while now, so much so that I tend to reread at least one of the books at least once a year. To be sure, they're not the best kind of paranormal romance I could possibly pick up and read, but I'm fond of them regardless for reasons I can't really explain. So when I found that there was a ninth book in the series, and that it had been out since 2014, I got myself a copy and read it on one of those days when by brain just wasn't feeling up to anything too heavy.

Now, while my standards for my guilty pleasure reads are significantly lower than my standards for the other kinds of reading I do, I have to say that this book didn't quite meet even those lowered standards. The story seemed to ramble around pointlessly for three-fourths of the book, and then all the action came in a rush towards the end, reaching a climax that I didn't even particularly like because it just didn't make sense. If there's a sequel to this one I hope it's a lot better than this go-round.