Though I’m enjoying the series as a whole this particular book really didn’t do it for me. One reason could be that the Anchorage city setting isn’t as entralling as the more remote and inhospitable Alaskan settings. Another reason could be that I didn’t much like the way Kate was portrayed in this book. There is some good stuff here but there was a lot that annoyed me. Kate seemed a little to vigilante like when it wasn’t necessary. Also, in the previous books Kate has been seen to be if not quite ugly she’s at least a down to earth, jeans and trainers, scarred and weather beaten kind of a person. In this book she got a makeover and turned into something that men fawned over. Granted it was only for the sake of the story but I found it all a bit too over the top. I already find the descriptions of her boyfriend (who’s about seven foot seven and hunkily drop dead gorgeous) and her career in law enforcement (“the star of the Anchorage police department”) to be a bit much and this was going too far for me.

Still there were good points to this book, and I won’t stop here because I know Stabenow can do better. This was definitely the weakest of the series for me.