Review: Needs improvement
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2013
I did enjoy this book.  If you read and liked the first three you'll like this one too.  The reason I gave it 3 stars was for this reason.  It's book 4 and I expected more development.This book stars out strong.  A dead body and an investigation to solve the crime.  It's very much like a police procedural tv show.  Unfortunately the murder gets solved like halfway through and is rather anticlimactic.  This book has almost no action in it.  You think there will be because there is great build up.  Except the build up is all you get.  This book has a lot of wasted pages.  A lot of nothing going on .  Ari and Andreas wait and wait and wait some more.I've also noticed that the so called Magic Council is completely useless.  They are a faceless group that does nothing.  I understand that Ari is a magic cop.  Yet cops call in backup when they need it.  Cops have resources they can use.  Everything Ari has at her disposal is because of Andreas, not the magic council.  A lot of stuff is happening.  Big stuff and the magic council doesn't seem to give a carp.  The o-seven want to kill their guardian and the feeling I get is that they don't care.(The werewolves do offer their support but it's an independent action not a council decision)