#64 Feedback by Mira Grant

You can read this before reading the other books in the series but there are spoilers since this covers the same time frame in this universe but with a team of bloggers following one of the Democratic candidates in the race to the White House.  If you don’t mind spoilers, then this is a great book to read in this universe. This story and the collection of novellas that came out earlier this year is like the best love letter to fans of the series. You may only see Shawn and George name checked but the playing in this world setting is great as always.

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Overall I really liked this and was grateful at one part near the end of the book that I know the writer will not add rape scenes and I could see the plot possibly having that since many other books would have done that just to ratchet up the tension. I hadn’t realized how uncomfortable I was getting reading the book until I set it down for a break and then that fact about the author popped in my head and I let out the breath I hadn’t known I had been holding.



Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss

#65 The Purloined Poodle by Kevin Hearne

This novella is set after Staked and will spoil a few things if you read it out of order.  Oberon is the main POV in this short mystery of missing dogs.  Oberon and Atticus learn of a series of dognappings while visiting a local dogpark. They decide to get to the bottom of it and end the end they solve the case, frustrate the local police and have a new four-legged friend join them.  The epilogue in this book can also serve as an epilogue to Staked.  Now to see where the rest of the series will go.  I must admit this was a light read after the downbeat reading of Staked


Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Netgalley.