Novella set in the Elemental Assassin world from Finn's POV right after Bitter Bite.
Finn screwed up royally and a lot of people, good people, are dead now because of it. He wanted to badly to believe that his mother was a good and wonderful person that he was blinded to what she really was and refused to listen to Gin or his other friends as they tried to warn him. Now he is having to live with the guilt and the desire to make amends to people who want nothing to do with him. One of them is the widow of one of the guards his mother killed. His boss is making him attend all the funerals and in the course of things, Finn finds out that that the widow's BIL owes money to a very bad man who will not hesitate to take it out on her and her son. Now that at least is a problem that Finn is capable of dealing with.
It was nice to get a story from Finn as he deals with the aftermath of the last book. Going straight back to another Gin story without dealing with Finn's emotional state would have been a disservice to that character. I will even go so far as to give a slight pass on the constant repetitive inner dialog but only a slight one. I felt like it was more in keeping with what he was going through but even with that, I would have to say that probably 20% of the novella is him rehashing the same thing over and over again and the wording on it is barely changed. I would probably not have been bothered by it at all if it weren't for the fact that this is a consistent problem with Ms. Estep's writing and generally to the detriment of the story's pacing. I gave up one of her series because of it and refuse to try any of her others at this point because of it and only stick with this series because the world is quite intriguing.
Page count: 100p/19,135p ytd/268,285p lifetime
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