Review copy provided by the publisher.
A member of my family saw this book sitting on the kitchen table and said, “Ohhh, somebody gonna get eaten.” This is what we call “setting reader expectations appropriately with the cover design.”
Kosara and Asen have had six months since the events of the Foul Days in the book of the same name–six months for things to get back to normal. Things…have not done that. Nor do they look likely to. Kosara is still hearing the Zmey’s voice. Asen is no longer comfortable on the mundane police force. And there are monsters…where there should not be monsters. So: normal? really no.
Giant plague-bearing cockerels, unexpected werewolves, uncertain vampires, Asen’s late wife’s kikimora, the gang’s all here. Kosara’s dozen shadows are unruly at the worst possible times. There’s more trouble than they realized between the human realm and the realm of monsters, and it’s going to take everything they’ve got to set the balance right–and a few things they don’t have yet as well. Vivid and particular, this is a fun successor to the excellent first volume.