The most recently issued in an ongoing series set in a Cincinnati where the
human population are complemented by witches, vampires, weres, pixies,
fairies and elves each of which has certain characteristics. Rachel Morgan, the heroine is a witch, is in partnership with Ivy, a vampire, and Jenks, a pixy,
in a private investigator set-up. This story is one of her going after a former
human boyfriend who has gone off with one of Jenks's sons to help him find
an artefact, the possession of which would lead to weres coming together
under a single leader, the holder of the item, which would then lead to war
with the vampires and then the human population. The book is rather too
long which leads to a loss if interest somewhere about two-thirds in though
it picks up for the climax. The interplay between the leading characters is
believable and allows for the different abilities of the various types with the
occasional reference back to earlier novels in the series though these do not
interfere with understanding the narrative. Enjoyable without being in any
way great literature