Hunting Prince Dracula was a breeze to read, Escaping From Houdini took me a few months. Let's get right to the review:
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What I love about this book is the characters. Especially Audrey Rose and Thomas Cresswell, they carry the weight of the story as well as they have in the other two installments. Old and new characters in short are as wonderful as Kerri Maniscalco writes them. Speaking of which, the writing is great! It kept me going until the end even though it took me so long. This book had a lot of fascinating ideas that I loved and the suspense was as good as ever.
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My biggest issue with Escaping From Houdini was it's very shoehorned subplot. It was absolutely unnecessary. If the subplot had existed in the second book, I may have understood it and been more accepting of it being there. But this is the third book. Everything to deal with characters is already established and this weird subplot just made it stick out like an unwanted sore thumb. It was the main reason why I struggled with reading this book, and if it was not in it I would've loved it as much as Hunting Prince Dracula.
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There was a lot of qualities that I really loved about Escaping From Houdini that I think is worth checking out. I wouldn't recommend it for the subplot but for everything else, it is worth a read.
4/5⭐️