A review by amyiw
A Family Affair by Karen Chance

2.0

This was push through it boring for me. The only thing good was getting glimpses into Pritkin's past and the gifts in the beginning and end. Rosier turns from a evil menacing demon to almost a clownish like character, fist fighting with his servants. More than half of the book is chase, attack, run, and duck. It was just exhausting and not fun for me, last minute impossible saves from more than overwhelming and impossible odd in the space of 76 pages. I really was wondering when can we get to a true interaction between characters? You don't really, just glimpses. I really have never liked Cassanova's character and this one makes me like him even less.

For shorts in this series I started with "The House at Cobb's End" and glad I did as I really liked it. So I know my disappointment wasn't caused by the length or how she writes novellas, it was the substance in this one. The all impossible (not smart) action and a lot of info dumping of the demon world, made the enjoyment of the characters almost impossible.