#60 Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill

I decided to give this one a try since the series is finished and I have been reading another series by this writer that is in a different story setting. Merit is a grad student who is attacked by a rogue vampire and saved the final death by being turned by the vampire hunting the rogue. Vampires had just come out in the open but some things are denied to them. Merit is barred from grad school and learn to work in the house system the vampires have. She is also dealing with finding out her retired policeman grandfather isn’t so retired and her father reminds her not to embarrass the family. Lots of worldbuilding in this book and it helps that Merit doesn’t know much about vampires besides the usual so it doesn’t feel like an info dump. A good beginning to the series and I’ll pick them up at some point. I did listen to the audio version instead of reading it and didn’t find myself lost or confused since I had to pick it up and down all the time.

#61 The Squirrel on the Train by Kevin Hearne

The second novella with Oberon as the POV character has them back in Portland the setting of the previous novella. The titular squirrel happens as they are taking the train to Portland and upon disembarking chase said rodent right to a dead body that looks like Atticus and it also happens to be investigated by the detective they met in the previous book. Atticus gets involved because the dogs can smell who killed the doppelganger. Along the way you find out a bit more about Atticus past and meet someone else he knows. A fun caper that if it wasn’t for Starbuck and the hounds quest for food wouldn’t have solved the mystery.

Review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley