Shadow's Edge

4.5 stars, Metaphorosis reviews
Summary
Kylar has tried to give up his live as a ‘wetboy' to settle down in a pseudo-marriage with Elene, taking care of Uly. They've moved to another city, and Kylar has promised not to kill again. But he can't quite seem to give it up, and when their old friend Jarl comes to visit from their old home, now captured by the brutal Godking, he brings an offer Kylar can't refuse.

Review
In some ways, this is not so much a sequel as a continuation of the prior volume, just broken into parts. Kylar, Elene, and Uly have moved away, but it's all still in the immediate aftermath of the previous book. Weeks continues his very strong series with both emotion and savagery, killing off characters left and right.

In this book, he ramps up the larger world political considerations and factions, to an extent that I found it hard to follow and to remember which group was which; a little more worldbuilding would have been welcome. Weeks is on firmer ground when he sticks to individual characters, and makes them both engaging and memorable. The one real misstep here is with Viridiana – another wetboy. He tries hard to bring her some depth, but it's a bit of a slog, in part because he made her such a caricature in the first book. Even by the end of this book, he hasn't fully redeemed that error, and some of the action is a little too plot-convenient – ways to drag out the misery for his chief protagonists.

Despite those flaws, the series continues strong, and I continue to recommend it.