Review: Miranda Gets Hitched
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 7, 2012
This prequel novella to the Eli Monpress series establishes how his occasional partner and usual nemesis, Spirtualist Miranda Lyonette hitched up with *her* partner, Gin the Ghost Hound and reveals a bit about her family life and early career (not that she is long in the tooth in the first novel, but by that point, she'd fully established herself).It's an entertaining tale, and we learn a bit more about how the "spirits" of living creatures compare to the sprits of inanimate objects, which have played a larger role in the series.  (Though some of it seemed like a bit of a retcon to me).My only knocks against it are that we guess what her family wants before Miranda does, which is odd because she knows them, and is normally quite smart, and that she seems a bit too forgiving of her elder sister.My only meta-knock against it is that I would rather have had a look at Nico's back-story..Anyway, I wouldn't start with this one, but if you've enjoyed the novels, this is definitely recommended.