Halloween Bingo 2025
Ilona Andrews is one of my favourite authors, so when my bookshop emailed to say that this book was waiting for me, I abandoned my adult responsibilities and headed out to claim it. The Andrews started this story on their blog as a serial, doling the words out each Friday. I read it regularly and enjoyed it a lot. But, being smart business people, they didn’t provide the ending. For that, purchasing the title was necessary.
Although I had read the available blog chapters (several times, actually), I started over from the beginning. It was lovely torture, but a good refresher. There are two sides to the story: Ada, the Assessor, who is trapped in a breach, a portal to a place with strange, dangerous creatures, poisonous plants, and very valuable resources. Her team is dead, as their protectors abandoned them. Outside the breach, we follow Elias, the head of the company responsible for collecting the resources and protecting the recovery team. He suspects that the snafu is caused by one of his staff—he must find a way to prove it and to recover the bodies of his team.
Ada’s situation is serious, but she has received an unusual gift from a dying woman of an unknown species encountered during the event that caused the disaster. Now she has only the team’s German Shepherd for company. Ada must rely on her Assessor talent, her dog, and her determination to get back to her children to get her back to Earth.
As usual, Ilona and Gordon have polished their prose for the final version. Finding the new bits is always fun. And then that ending! It’s not a cliffhanger exactly, but it definitely leaves unanswered questions. The authors have indicated that this is a duology, so eventually I expect to learn where things will go from here. I know, however, that they have a lot of irons in the fire, so I will not hold my breath for the second half of the story. Since I want their other books too, this is win-win waiting as far as I’m concerned.
I read this book for the Urban Decay square of my Halloween Bingo card.
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