Gray Witch

Gray Witch by Hailey Edwards
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Gosh, a lot happens in this book. I’m going to include spoilers from the last book because it is important, but who starts at book 5 anyway?

This book picks up in the aftermath of the big end of book reveal. The promise to stay in contact? Well the first message arrives right as the crew has to take off for a case, shaking Rue’s life again. This is an even bigger road trip book than the last one - they bounce around A LOT and I don’t have that good a grasp on southern geography to tell you how far/how long they drove. The big case they are working on is the seeming resurrection of some famous supernatural big bads, or at least famous ones. They also happen to be assigned this case by the second in command because the director is MIA.

Just when the group gets their feet under them at one crime scene, another crops up, then another, splitting the group up so that they can at least finish chasing down leads for one of their stops. Highlights in this one? The demon making a wolf friend. And getting treated like a true person. There is big demon/demon politics happenings in this installments that likely deserves a whole paragraph but it wasn’t the good stuff. The good stuff was Rue leaning into her power and officially choosing a side in the battle that her dad is silently pursuing. I liked that this book wasn’t just the usual levels of gross, but also found time to throw in a bit of role play geekdom outside of the mystic realms stuff.

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