Review: Still enjoying the series, but I wish I didn't have to read the story in such small pieces
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 13, 2013
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.Rating: 7/10PROS:- These stories are amusing. Caleb is dry and sardonic, and Gray's confusion at the ways of the human world is often quite funny.- Hawk is doing a good job of making Gray become more and more like his human host with each story--as well as showing how Caleb is beginning to lose himself to the non-human entity inside of him. (see cons below also)- There's an interesting twist to the sex scenes. Because Caleb and Gray inhabit the same body, their encounters with John turn into an odd sort of threesome-but-not.CONS:- Much as I admire the author's slow melding of Caleb's and Gray's personalities, I find myself missing the culture clash from the earlier books. I enjoyed Gray's utter dismissal of emotion early on, as well as Caleb's constant worrying about the creature inside of him.- This one ends on more of a cliffhanger than either of the earlier volumes.- I've pointed this out with both of the earlier stories, so I feel a bit like a broken record. But I think it bears repeating: the repeated switches from past tense in Caleb's and John's scenes to present tense in Gray's scenes is disorienting every time, even if only for a few seconds.Overall comments: There are a nice romance and a mystery plotline that run through all of the books in this series and hold them together well. As far as this particular installment goes, the relationship continues to move forward, and the plot is intriguing and fast-paced, but not so similar to those of the earlier books that I felt as though I was reading the same story again.