Everyone's favorite necromancer is back in LA for good and after the previous novel is finally and completely separated from Mictlantecuhtli (well, mostly anyway). He is not very happy with Gabriela because of that last part (or the part where she pulled him back into the land of the living) but at least noone is burning half of LA this time around. Not yet anyway - with Eric you never know - after all there is still that part of the city that is under a magical cloud. Getting people to not notice all the magic is getting more and more entertaining.

Except that this is not what this novel is all about - instead Eric somehow ends up in the middle of a family feud (not his own) with everyone seemingly trying to kill him (so what is new?) and everyone else in the said family while working around a family curse which will kill them if they kill one of their relatives. Except that someone does die and the curse does not activate and it seems like all the rules are fluid again.

Magical LA is always fascinating in these books and this one is not an exception and we get quite a lot of backstory of the world as a whole. It is a very fast moving novel with a lot of fights, death and things that should be dead showing up out of nowhere and it fits in the series as a glove and then at the end, it sets the stage for the next novel. ( )