A review by cupiscent
The Dark Days Deceit by Alison Goodman

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I like this trilogy. "Regency Buffy" is a fun concept, and Goodman delivers it with so much more realistic nuance and depth than might have been the case from a more by-the-numbers author. But I feel that this trilogy-ender lets the whole thing down a little bit. It was so fiddly with details that the big shifts of the plot often got lost for me, leaving me in a strange limbo at 80% when things seemed to have been concluded and yet clearly were not. (Pacing and page-length said there was more, but I was lost as to the plot hooks that built the bridge from "we did it!" to "oh wait...")