Greedy Pigs by Matt Wallace

The Sin du Jour crew caters to the Shadow Government in Greedy Pigs, Matt Wallace's fifth Sin du Jour Affair “I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.” Politics is a dirty game. When the team at Sin du Jour accidentally caters a meal for the President of the United States and his entourage, they discover a conspiracy that has been in place since before living memory. Meanwhile, the Shadow Government that oversees the co-existence of the natural and supernatural worlds is under threat from the most unlikely of sources. It’s up to one member of the Sin du Jour staff to prevent war on an unimaginable scale. Between courses, naturally. Sin du Jour Book 1: Envy of Angels Book 2: Lustlocked Book 3: Pride's Spell Book 4: Idle Ingredients Book 5: Greedy Pigs Book 6: Gluttony Bay Book 7: Taste of Wrath At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

There were a lot of fun moments in this one, but I'm not sure about the ending.

Trying to knock down this reading slump I'm in by reading more novellas, and this one seemed like a really good place to start :D. But man, Wallace sure knows how to drive the stakes ever higher in this series. There aren't a lot of laugh-out-loud moments in this instalment, but it's still pretty funny in a lot of places. It's just...IDK. I think the stakes have gotten so high at this point that I'm really more worried about what's going to happen to the characters, instead of all the funny things that are happening. Makes me kind of worried about what's going to happen in the next novella in the series. Don't get me wrong: this is still a very good read, it just isn't as funny as the first few ones have been. Which again, I guess makes sense, given how high the stakes are now.

On a happier note: I think Wallace has a tendency to have certain people make “special guest appearances” in this series, and this book is no exception. Given the cover, I think you can guess who makes that appearance.