Threshold

I'm really loving this series and keeping my fingers crossed that in the next books the characters continue to grow and mature. The cases they solve are almost incidental to the growing and evolving relationship between Whyborne & Griffin. At this point they've only been together a few months and suffer from misapprehensions and insecurities: Whyborne sees himself as unattractive, unworldly giant and can't fathom what Griffin sees in him and on his part Griffin sees himself as the poor boy from Kansas with an unsavory past passing as a gentleman in front of his betters and is always in fear that the silver spoon born Whyborne will see thru him and flee in disgust. In the meantime Whyborne is characterized a bit like the wallflowery yet plucky heroine of early romances who seems in need of rescue and aghast by many everyday situations but always saves the day in the end by bringing out a backbone heretofore unseen. He is amplifying his repertoire of spells and using them to good effect. And Griffin is the gentleman lover we all wish to discover in some nook or cranny of our room.We also have Christine an unflappable best friend that we all wish to have.I'll continue with this series. I like it. ;-)*** Two side notes: I got the Whispersync option with this and the narration by [a:Julian G. Simmons 7536615 Julian G. Simmons https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png] isn't bad. I just didn't love it. He makes Whyborne sometimes sound fey or silly which doesn't read so to me on the page. But it does help to keep the book going while I'm walking. Another small caveat: be prepared to love the verb HASTEN. The author does. Big time.