Out of House and Home

★ ★ ★ 1/2 (rounded up)
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Readeras part of a quick takes/catch up post —emphasizing pithiness, not thoroughness.
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Wow, it'd been almost ten months since I'd listened to a Fred, the Vampire Accountant book. After a pretty steady diet of them for a while, the break was a little strange.

Anyway, the wedding's behind him, so there's another new challenge for Fred—someone's coming for him, and the House of Fred. This isn't new, but the openness, brazenness, and intensity of the attacks are.

Fred has to be his most creative to get through this challenge with both his ethics and clan intact. Not to mention his life.

For reasons that make sense (and make some of the drama possible), Krystal was not around for most of this book. That bugged me, I'd have liked to have seen a bit more about married life between the two. Oh, well, there's time for that to come.

Gentle humor, just enough action to keep you going, and a bunch of pleasant characters. The seventh installment of this series proves there's plenty of life left in this story of the undead.

Again enjoyed and liked the characters but didn't really love the book itself. My gripe with the 6th book was somewhat fixed in this because some big stuff definitely happened. But I also noticed something in the audiobook. I have no clue if graphic audio changed some of the text or not but it has really felt very emotionless from the beginning. That makes it super hard to emphasise because instead of making me feel their emotions they are only very calmly described. It takes all the tension you are supposed to feel away. Even in the end where some shit goes down, it was almost boring because of this calm description of everything.