The Night Women

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The Night Women by Sara Blaedel

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Maybe a 3.5 read for me. I might have gone to four stars except it wasn't quite my type of police procedural, leaning heavy into the no one cares about trafficked women theme. Might be too realistic in that respect. It's also entrenched in eastern Europe and the atrocities in former Yugoslavia. There are two story lines, the trafficked women and the killings that surround them and babies being left in a local church.

Louise is a detective investigating the prostitutes and her friend Camille, an investigative journalist is looking into that and the baby as it was her eleven year old son and his friend, the pastor's son, found the baby. However her story leads to another killing and Camille spins out into a deep depression which honestly takes up a bit too much of the story for me.

The other reason I gave it three stars is the whole thing felt a bit overly long at 400 pages. And after a clue given at the halfway point solved the mystery for me which okay I like it when I get clues but it's like what was taking them so long to figure out what was rather obvious.

I liked Louise though, Camille less son. I'd read more of the series.



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Lander

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Lander: Liminal Sky: Oberon Cycle Book 2 by J Scott Coatsworth

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Lander picks up where Skythane leaves off. The worlds have been united and shifted but that's just the beginnings of the changes for Xander and Jameson. Both have their respective kingdoms to unite against the offworld forces and Xander's mother, Robyn, is back from the dead so to speak.

That branches into another storyline, Robyn and Quince's reunion and the work they have to do to save the world and their people. They need to find the young boy Morgan who might be something more than he seems.

On top of that Xander and Jameson find out what Quince has done with the pith putting their relationship on rocky ground. Add to that the reappearance of Alix, Xander's ex who might be more helpful than Xander would like, especially where Jameson is concerned (as far as I'm concerned, I hope book three ends in a poly relationship).

WHen things are looking bad, they get even worse when Jessa, Jameson's former fiancee comes looking for him and gets captured.

There are a lot of threads in this plot and a lot of characters but they are dealt with deftly. I loved both Alix and Jessa made me very happy. The foundation is laid for the final book of the trilogy and I really enjoyed this one. It didn't feel like many second books of a trilogy: like filler.



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