A review by effingunicorns
The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire

slow-paced

3.0

Just realized I've been caught up to this series for a decade now, so that probably accounts for some of my growing distance from it in recent years. I can't say it wasn't nice to see what Tybalt was actually up to over the course of the previous book and finally get a proper bridge between the beginning of that one and the end of the one before it, but my favorite parts were

The Great Costco Heist

and

Tybalt & Company Discover GPS

, both of which were far too brief. The story otherwise felt repetitive even when it wasn't trying to be--with so many characters who had to be brought up to speed, this was a perfect opportunity to experiment with more natural exposition, but instead it felt like we got double the reminders about nearly every person and situation that came up.

I plan to stick with the series for a while longer, but unless the next one really tightens up, I think I'll be less concerned about reading them as soon as they come out.