Review: Awesome series!  5 starts to subsequent books in this series!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2012
Slight spoilers for Blood Wager series contained in this review:  I was skeptical going into this series because I thought it would be too young adult for me.  I typically read adult paranormal romance.  I absolutely adore this author's Blood Wager series, and new High Demon series, so I thought I would give this a try because it got such good reviews.  I was not disappointed.  In fact, I devoured all 4 books in this series in a matter of days.  I could not put them down, and lost a bit of sleep because of it.  This first book "Bumble" was still great, but the series improves immensely with each book.  This could because between books one and two, the main character and his friends go from 12 to 14, then to 16 by the last 2 books.  The characters were more relatable (is this a word?) as they got a little older, and the action and story picked up too.  What made the story for me was the inclusion of many characters from the Blood Wager books.  I keep wondering how this series might tie in with where the the Blood Wage series is going now, but this series is set during the time when all of Lissa's friends on Earth think she is dead.  So no Lissa in this book so far, thought she is talked about, but we have a lot of Winkler and his children (now grown), Weldon, Wlodek (who is very unlikable in this book), Radomir, Charles, Renegar, Griffin, and many wonderful new characters.  I have grown to love Ashe and hope I see some of him cross over somehow to later Blood Wager books.  My mind has been constantly spinning trying to think if I missed any reference to him (not by name but indirectly) in any of those books????  It is giving me a headache!  Please Connie, you are killing me ending all these books on cliffhangers!  Thank you so much for writing and publishing them so quickly!