*Disclaimer: I read all 10 books in this series back to back in two weeks and I couldn't stop reading long enough to review each book when I finished it, so this is a review written after finishing and loving all 10 books*

This book does a lot of things right. The main case that Kate and Co. are working on involves important characters that were introduced in previous books, so we get to see a lot of familiar faces. Besides that, the storyline with Curran and the Guild works well because it gives Curran purpose again.

But definitely one of the things that this books accomplish is to establish the complex hate and love relationship between Kate and Roland. Their encounters show how even when Kate knows he is a bad person and she has a lot of reasons to hate him, he is still her dad and he is trying to behave like a dad, so she has conflicting emotions about him. Roland is an interesting bad guy.

Kate and Curran in this one are great, they are learning how to compromise and they are a great team. There's one scene in particular that just shows how great they are together and how they help each other carry heavy loads, which I really appreciated.

Also, there are still so many funny moments, I particularly loved Kate being mad because Curran took the kids (Derek, Ascanio, and Julie) to hunt ghouls during a school day and Curran having no idea why she was mad. I never thought Kate would be the strict parent in that relationship.