Mage Assassins & Other Misfits

I'm so glad Kit is back! He's a fun main character and I love how he views the world. The wittiness, the charm, the epic eye-rolls are still here, but when things are serious, you know he'll do what's needed.

When we left Kit last, we were teased with a huge conspiracy and an adventurous Darius-Kit team-up. Without going into details, it was so worth it. Darius and Kit are similar and yet super different, which makes for an interesting time. Don't worry though, Lienna is not in California forever. And she's badass as always.

And we get so much Darius and Blythe that's been hinted at in earlier Guild Codex books. Well worth the wait. I knew it was gonna be something ... heartbreaking and realistic just because of the snippets we'd gotten before. Finally getting details about them was incredible. No matter how it ends up (even though I'm sure most of us want a certain ending), I know it'll be earned for the characters and cathartic for me.

The romance has always taken a back seat, but it's been there, quietly burning and increasing in intensity. Pretty realistic for a workplace romance, especially when there's been so many bad guys running around doing bad guy things. In a way that's typical for these two MPD agents, their relationship takes two steps forward and one step back in this book. But this time it's not because they're scared, so I can't yell at them for it.

Everything in the series has been set up for an incredible payoff, and the ending of Mage Assassins & Other Misfits left us in a perfect spot. It's gonna be real hard to wait for the final book.