{"id":12820,"date":"2025-08-23T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=12820"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:42:12","slug":"end-game-accidentally-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/end-game-accidentally-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"END GAME & Accidentally WOLF"},"content":{"rendered":"

The conclusion<\/a> to John Van Stry<\/a>‘s Wolfhounds series<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

I picked up the first of Erin R Flynn<\/a>‘s Seraphine Thomas novels<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n

Any one or two of those I could’ve forced my way through. But all of them back to back? Nope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1179,825,29,64,62,1178,30],"class_list":["post-12820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-erin-r-flynn","tag-john-van-stry","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-seraphine-thomas","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}