Shadows & Dreams by Alexis Hall

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shadows&dreams

This is the second book in the Kate Kane series, and like many second books it’s not as strong as the first book. However, it is still just as fun.

Private investigator Kate Kane is as snarky as ever. She and her automaton (living marble statue?) assistant, Elise, who is the most endearing character I’ve read in years, are working on a missing person’s case. Chaos ensues. Hilarity abounds.

I have two issues with the book. First of all, I have a hard time keeping all the characters and their names together. So many characters! So many types of characters! (Human, vampire, faerie, mage, werewolf, alchemist?)

The second issue is that in this book Kate Kane uses her magic powers too much. In the first book there was so much about how she doesn’t like to use her powers cos she turns inhuman and blah blah, but in this book, any time trouble came up she just morphed back and forth and it felt pretty weak.

Still and all, it’s a fun book, a fun series. If you liked the first book you will enjoy this one as well.

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