I'm going to start off by saying that this may be a 5-star book. And I hope I'm not hurting the author too much by only giving it 4. But my reading of this deviated from my usual routine. Just when I would make this book my number-one reading priority, I decided to drop in an "emergency re-read" (a book club selection that the discussion got postponed a month, and I didn't trust I'd still remember it well enough to take part in the discussion if I didn't read it again); that re-read was in the same genre as this book. Which means, my brain has those two books jumbled together, as well as the other book in this series (which I previously read), which includes a few characters in common with this one.

What I can say is that I really enjoyed this book. I probably should read it again, given the holes in my memory. If I remembered it properly, I think I might have given it five stars. But… I think that 5-star reviews are meaningless if a reviewer gives that to every book they read. So I really try to save my 5-stars for the books I think are absolutely perfect. So I wouldn't read too much into me dropping it to 4, because that feels like more about my life over the past few days than my views of this book, but I can't tease the two apart enough to convince myself to give the top review. Mostly because I don't know what to tell you about the book (see the above two paragraphs of my life). But I'll stop here before I really embarrass myself!