Discovering Pride

(I am ping ponging between a three star and a four star rating. Even a 3.5 would cause me to round up to a four and I just don't know! This is one of the hardest books for me to rate in quite a while!)

I'm not gelling 100% with this book and it might be partially my fault. See, I didn't reread the first book in the series before going after this one. So where that has left me is not knowing what Sam and Alistair see in each other and being somewhat feed up with their minor disagreements and squabbles.

Because in this book, they are already an established couple - though not an established witch/familiar pair. Which does something a little weird for me. I both like that (because I like the more logical, lack of soul mates vibe) and dislike it (because I feel a little like they are meshing real well as a couple for me and the lack of this connection actually makes them feel a little more distant to each other to me).

I do have a vague memory of them not being a favorite pairing for me from the first book, too. (And, to be honest, I don't think I'm ever going to like Sam.) I'm just not fully behind them as a couple and as the excitement of them getting together has worn off, I think that is coming to the forefront.

I do still love the 20's Prohibition era setting, though. And all the slang. The slang is super cool. (I also want to say that someone got splifficated instead of boringly saying they got drunk.)

AND I thought I had things figured out and I go, yeah, Hawk is an author that would go this creepy. But then I get the reveal and I'm like, no, Hawk's an author to go even creepier!

Honestly, I think this is one of the reasons I like his books so much, because I don't like horror books, but his books walk right up to that line of ‘I enjoy this' without ever crossing over into the ‘I don't enjoy this' and I actually find myself enjoying the general creepiness that is offered in his books.