Review: En-gross-ing Read  (Did you see what I did there?)  Fun, Action, Suspend Reality, Complexity Amped Up.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2014
In this Ava novel, the new ghoul on the block is forced to dive into the ever-more complex world of The Supernatural and, together with a few other things, her ghoulish training wheels are removed.This time around Ava is charged with cleaning up a complex political mess that has boiled over between the Faeries and the Goblins with Templars stirring the pot from the sidelines.  The story begins with deceptive simplicity and ends with a tangled web of jealousies, traditional enmities, betrayals...culminating in a Die Hard (see I did it again) combat scene...from the rubble of which no one really emerges as a winner. For what Ava gains in her ghoulish skills, she loses and has a butcher's bill to pay in other ways.Begins light but becomes progressively darker.  Overall, more serious and complex than Ava's earlier adventures.Sure, Ava's internal reflections are as funny as ever, but I reckon she's compensating for what's going on around her.At this stage of the game, I think she needs a vacation to decompress....how about Alaska in mid-winter to visit a traditional burial ground?  You see what I did there?  Yay for me!