Solid 3 - good story, but I wish Erasmus didn't have to have the idiot ball to get us to the concluding arc. Also, his dad was way more interesting than anyone else including the main couple. I want a book about Nicodemus and what he gets up to. 😏

The sex scenes were pretty good, but this book is about 250 pages too long - by the time we reached the end, I was skimming the smut in hopes of actual story. 

Additionally, you can't have THREE male love interests who own a sex club together and have it be this heterosexual. Boring.

A solid ending for the series - I knew they would resolve the differences in lifespans between Parker and Nick, but I am happy to know it didn't come at the cost of Nick's personality being subsumed by a god.

A pretty okay read for me - I was looking for a procedural that didn’t focus solely on cops, given how they tend to propagandize them. I didn’t connect with any of the characters except Judge Dawson (and that was only because she’s a shadowy hyper-competent side character that doesn’t require excessive depth to be cool and aloof).  

To the credit of the author, the story-telling does draw you in, but the “bad guy” is such a nonentity that it didn’t create enough tension. He says maybe a handful of words the entire time and we never see his perspective. I think there’s too much attention paid in the narrative to how he looks (scarred and damaged by a genetic disorder) and not enough about his actions and motivations once discovered. The cannibalism angle the lead detective spends so much page space on as a rationale for the crimes is almost entirely dropped once they actually find him. He somehow manages to fade into the background during the court scenes which are solely about his competence to stand trial. I think the author got too invested in showing the complex relationships that exist between prosecutor, defense and judge in a court circuit to focus on anything else.

Not really my genre - but I can admit that the demon designs are pretty damn interesting 

My library borrow time expired 😭🤚. I struggled with the timelines and names - maybe I'll reborrow it someday and see if getting to the court case helps alleviate that problem.

I like it better when both parties are as equally unhinged about one another. Monroe is just swept up in Lincoln's obsession and has very little agency over herself.