I really like Pamela Clare's writing and plot development. There's no doubt it's very entertaining and well thought-out. This is now the 3rd book I've read in this series (I skipped the first one, but I do plan to go back and read it soon) and I keep noticing the same trend. While the stories themselves are different, the male hero is often very similar and, to some degree, so is the heroine. I like how different the mystery plots are, but the romance itself follows a similar formula. It's always the commitment-phobe hero who falls head over heels and there's always talk about condomless sex and pregnancy. The heroine always seems to be fine with having a baby, even if she has to raise on her own. This is getting tiresome and I think it caused me to knock out a star.

One other inconsistency I could was that at one point, Kat cut her hair to her shoulders in grief, but a few chapters later, she had really long hair again. I think only a few weeks passed between this time period, so I found that jarring. There's also a line in which she is talking to Gabe and seems to randomly point out that people call her Kat instead of Katherine, but I didn't really see a lead up to that. It makes me wonder if the author had previously written dialogue there that was cut off, because the line seemed to come out of nowhere.

Other than that, I found the book well done and fun to read. It didn't quite capture me the same way as the other two. Maybe because I found it hard to relate to Kat's thought processes and culture. I did find all the Navajo background different and interesting. I liked how the story centered around that and I liked finding out who the "bad guys" were. The story between her and Gabe, though, felt a bit less interesting. For that reason, I knocked it down to 3 stars.

It's still very much worth reading and I can't wait to continue the series.