Blood Storm Magic

★ ★ 1/2 (rounded up)
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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Faith has a lot to wrap up in this conclusion to her Ella Gray series. There's the re-rescue of Ella's brother, the deal with her magic, the completion of her partner's storyline, the situation with her coven (especially the leader of it), her roommate's romantic situation, and a few strings—Faith even throws in a new romantic interest for Ella.

And, well, she does wrap it all up. Most of it felt rushed, like she was going to get it all wrapped up in X number of pages come Hades or high-water. Some of it was too convenient. Some of it was fitting. Some was tragic. All of it was hurried.

I really did enjoy the dragon character and all we learned about him.

I wish that Faith had turned this into an ongoing series with a focus on the Supernatural Crimes while finding a way to resolve the other storylines—I enjoyed those characters and thought that whole thing had a lot more life in it. She could've done that and even kept the coven in the background. But...that's just me.

This series started strong and promising, and then it petered out. I'm glad I got to see how someone would use Boise in an Urban Fantasy, but was disappointed in the end. The coworker who turned me on to the series disagrees with my overall take on it, she's probably in the majority.