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The Wild Dead, The Bannerless Saga #2 - Carrie Vaughn (2018)

One year after Bannerless, Enid, now 30, is assigned another investigation, this time with a trainee, which again becomes a murder mystery. Unlike the previous book, this is a single perspective murder mystery through and through. That resolves its identity crisis, but in my least preferred way. Much of what I enjoyed in the first book, and the short fiction before that, has been minimized here. It's still a fine read that I didn't particularly dislike anything about, but there wasn't really anything in particular that I liked either. The internal chronology of the series is a bit questionable, which is something that unduly irritates me at times. I have to give the benefit of the doubt though because they don't seem to have any formal dating of years, or a calendar for that matter, despite basically knowing their ages. There's no really much I have to say about it, as it's a relatively standard lackluster murder mystery. If there's another book in this series, it would probably be better to have it a series of vignettes rather than a single narrative, as I think she did better with her short fiction in this setting.

Rating: 3/5