Oh, that's Veronica "Mom or Marmoset?" Henry! I enjoyed the other book of hers that I've read (Bacchanal) a lot, but it had a truly bizarre eleventh-hour quirk at the end.
Anyway ... yeah, I'm still buying the Ben January books as they come out, but I feel like the series has taken a definite dip in quality in the back half; for every book I've loved (and there have been some, definitely!) there were two I was "meh" about. I get that after 19 books Hambly wants to stir up the formula occasionally and explore more of the world, but I'm here for the ensemble and just don't really care about Ben meeting historical figures and solving mysteries with people like Poe or Barnum. And I miss Rose having a more active role before she had kids and started running the school. The good ones are still good, though!
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Anyway ... yeah, I'm still buying the Ben January books as they come out, but I feel like the series has taken a definite dip in quality in the back half; for every book I've loved (and there have been some, definitely!) there were two I was "meh" about. I get that after 19 books Hambly wants to stir up the formula occasionally and explore more of the world, but I'm here for the ensemble and just don't really care about Ben meeting historical figures and solving mysteries with people like Poe or Barnum. And I miss Rose having a more active role before she had kids and started running the school. The good ones are still good, though!