The conclusion to John Van Stry‘s Wolfhounds series is… okay I guess? It does precisely what it set out to do, no more and no less. Personally I could have done with a bit more spontaneity in how the assault played out and a little less of the antagonist’s past life recap, but making a plan and sticking to it is far from the worst way to end something.
I picked up the first of Erin R Flynn‘s Seraphine Thomas novels quite some time ago in what I can only assume was a fit of nostalgia. It’s been a while since I read this kind of book and ended up putting off reading it time and time again, but fortunately it initially wasn’t as bad as I feared. No, the event progression was tollerable enough until about a quarter of the way through when a three-pronged deal-killer appeared; the vampire sovereignty thing, assassinating an FBI officer being less illegal than gun smuggling, and then sex out of nowhere.
Any one or two of those I could’ve forced my way through. But all of them back to back? Nope.