A review by sanscrit
The Night Parade by Scott Ciencin

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

3.5

Others have highlighted the technical issues with the writing. The first third of the book was so full of “men writing women” tropes, including when describing 14 year old Krystin, I was being taken out of the world every time a new character showed up. The author seemed to be enjoying writing sexual tension into every relationship possible and I was struggling to stick with it. That’s not to mention the ridiculous cover art.

The back half of the book is almost like it was written by someone else because the lens of everyone being hot and attracted to each other was abandoned and it carried on with a quite enjoyable story. My guess is this shift was meant to show Myrmeen’s growth as a character as she moved from “cougar widow” to “maternal role model” as the book is written mostly from her perspective. Whatever the reason, I found the slog of the first part mostly worth getting through to what is an overall good inclusion in the Harper series.

I think if this story was written by someone less worried about the shapely nature of each named character it would have been one of the best books in the Harper series.
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