Bleed­ing Out by Jes Bat­tis
My rat­ing: 2 of 5 stars

Woof, I made it. I was­n’t sure that I would, as this nov­el start­ed out nor­mal­ly and devolved into a stream-of-con­scious­ness mess. I was seri­ous­ly moti­vat­ed to keep going, though, because I read the rest of the series and this is the last book in it.

So I pushed on through, got to a bit of light in the tun­nel, and then there was more muck. Real­ly, Mr. Bat­tis — this is a pop­u­lar work! Or did you just feel like, “Hey, this is the end of my con­tract, I can do what­ev­er I want…” That’s the feel­ing I got, hon­est­ly. It does­n’t moti­vate me to pick up what­ev­er Bat­tis pub­lish­es in the future.

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Night Child by Jes Bat­tis

My review

rat­ing: 4 of 5 stars
I real­ly enjoyed this book, and hope Bat­tis returns to this world. His prose is lyri­cal, engaging—a major depar­ture from most of the urban fan­ta­sy genre. There were a few lit­tle con­sis­ten­cy blips that made me think that the book had been edit­ed with less care than it deserved, but they did­n’t detract seri­ous­ly from the plot.

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