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A review by roxanamalinachirila
Balefire by Jordan L. Hawk
4.0
This is the 10th and next to last book in the Whyborne & Griffin series - come for the gay romance, stay for the cozy horror adventures. And I mean this, because the romance is pretty much solved and nowhere near bumpy anymore, so what you get is cool people saving the world together from all sorts of mad paranormal threats.
When I started reading this, I realized I'd missed the horrible, quirky murder town of Widdershins, with its cult of librarians, museum designed by a mad architect, tentacled sea people who sometimes take human wives and husbands, and, lately, friendly demonic horrors. It was almost a pity that the adventuring took them all the way to Cornwall this time, where the ancestral home of the Endicott clan seems to be in some sort of trouble, cut off from the rest of the world and probably under the control of those who want to hand the world on a silver platter to otherworldly abominations.
You can feel the series is slowly heading towards the end - things are starting to get resolved one way or another, and you can feel the tension in the air. Even so, there are a couple of surprises and twists left as the story spirals up towards the great finale.
When I started reading this, I realized I'd missed the horrible, quirky murder town of Widdershins, with its cult of librarians, museum designed by a mad architect, tentacled sea people who sometimes take human wives and husbands, and, lately, friendly demonic horrors. It was almost a pity that the adventuring took them all the way to Cornwall this time, where the ancestral home of the Endicott clan seems to be in some sort of trouble, cut off from the rest of the world and probably under the control of those who want to hand the world on a silver platter to otherworldly abominations.
You can feel the series is slowly heading towards the end - things are starting to get resolved one way or another, and you can feel the tension in the air. Even so, there are a couple of surprises and twists left as the story spirals up towards the great finale.