This series seems to revolve less and less around mystery as it goes on. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing but it can get a bit bemusing at times.

I spent the first half of this book enjoying what was going on (gun fights, bear attacks, engines falling out of the sky) but waiting for the main mystery to break. In the second half I just got on with enjoying it and didn’t worry about it. In retrospect there is a murder in the book and it is solved but the proportion of page space taken up by this compared to the other sub plots isn’t what I was expecting. It’s an interesting book but it didn’t quite all come together for me.

I found this book to be more of a character study of Kate than a plot centred book. It’s more of a case of presenting Kate with various situations, people, and surroundings and seeing how she copes with them. As such I think it may move the series on to be rounder and deeper than it was before especially as I mainly read these books for the characters and the scenery anyway. This is definitely not a book to read out of order, if you’re starting in on this series you’d get a better taste of it by reading one of the earlier more plot orientated books first.