OK, I'm still reading the Women of the Otherworld series when I'm in the mood. And I'm still waiting for a book that's half as good as Bitten was. Remember way back when when I talked about Industrial Magic and I mention just how freaking annoying Paige is? Yep, still annoying.
Luckily, we don't get to see much of her this book. Instead, we get ghostie Eve, who's got to cut into her schedule of stalking her teenage daughter and rejecting the love of her life (for no good reason) to pay back the debt she owes to the Fates.
They set her on the trail of the Nix, a part-demon serial killer who's been body hopping and raising hell for a couple hundred years now.
While I enjoyed Eve and Kristoff bopping about the afterlife looking for a murderer, and the sequences in the pirate village, a very unusual hell for the worst of the worst and the Scottish castle were inspired, the story started to drag every time the author created another reason for us to visit Jamie Vegas, or Paige, or ... yeah, we get it. Big world. For the most part though, unless I'm getting to see the werewolves or more Kristoff, enough with the cameo parade.
But this isn't just a job for Eve, it's a trial -- one that could change her afterlife forever if she succeeds. Is a half-demon ghost witch ready to become a full-fledged angel? And since the angels she's meeting are all boring, snippy or incompetent, why would she want to?
Overall, this wasn't a bad turn-your-brain-off book, but it wasn't a great one, either. It's certainly not one that I'd recommend for a friend, and I've recommended Bitten several times.
Oh well, in the next book in the series Elena and Clay are back. Here's hoping it's a good return.
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