Call it a detour, or second-book syndrome, but the main takeaway from this book was that it felt very directionless. The plot starts off strong, but very quickly meanders off the path, and doesn't really quite give the reader any indication what it's going for.

Iron Druid fans will enjoy this more, as it has a whole lot of Atticus in it, and serves almost enough to be an installment of that series. The main issues that MacBharrais deals with aren't really developed at all in this book, and he really serves more of a narrator function in this one.

The ending was action-packed, but that's really it. The prose, I'm realizing, is really not for me, veering between awkwardly stilted and awkwardly exuberant with almost no in between.

Will still check out the last book, because I am interested in how Al's story ends.