melannrosenthal 's review for:

Wolfhunter River by Rachel Caine

3.0

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I will forever be a ferocious fan of Gwen Proctor but this installment was not what I was hoping for. Coming off of such an explosive ending in the previous book, I was surprised when, despite a possible inciting incident (HELLO, Gwen ends up blindsided on stage of a talk show by her archenemy, Miranda Tidewell) the subsequent 100 pages or so were lagging. Though the remaining 200 saved it as a whole, I was left wondering why the chapters in between the talk show confrontation and the Gwen & family's eventual arrival to the mysterious/disturbing happenings in Wolfhunter weren't cut in order to keep the action at the forefront. Once Gwen offered her testimony to the local PD following the death of a woman who had called Gwen desperate for help. When the woman's daughter calls her a few days later, also in distress, she knows that despite her best intentions to keep her children safe and away from situations exactly like that in Wolfhunter, they all pack up and head in to investigate and the rest of the story spirals quickly into what I've come to expect from Caine: the disappeared child, the dirty cops, the fire fight, the horrific murders, and general hate towards Gwen's innocence in her husband's old diabolical ways. I'd say that if you've already made it through the preceding two books, this one should definitely still be next on your list.