Thank goodness...a return to plot. After slogging through two short books of what amounted to a ridiculous amount of sex and very little storyline, I was getting ready to give up on the Merry Gentry series.

I was disappointed at first glance by the length of the book, thinking that 181 pages was not nearly enough to get the storyline going again. I am thrilled to be proven wrong. Without spoiling the story, events are finally turning again.

It feels like Merry has more control over her life and the politics in the story, and that it's not one big Deus ex Machina with a convenient orgy thrown in every once in a while. It's a nice return to the Merry Gentry from the first and second books.

Of course once again Laurel K. Hamilton ends on a cliffhanger. I can't wait to see how the next one turns out!