This is the 3rd book in the series. After finishing the series it really feels like she wrote a single long book and then with a few edits broke it into 3 individual volumes. The advantage to it is that unlike most books in a series there isn't 100 pages of "and this happened in the last book" to have to dig though. She does give some little reminders but they are thrown in as a single sentence or at most a paragraph. I did find it hard to follow at points because of differing states of reality and "dream sequences" that had to be taken as symbolic as opposed to the primary reality of the story.
Overall you are looking at ~1000 pages for the series and the writing is very vivid while not being excruciatingly verbose. Anyone who has read anything by Laurell K. Hamilton will understand that sometimes it can just be too much detail. Spending 2 pages to describe the new character can turn the reader off them instead of endearing them. It is twice as bad if the character is introduced in a suspenseful time and you have broken the reader's drive to see what is going to happen. Much as Tripod asks for in King Kong Ms. Hunter "gets to the monkey".
336 pages
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