Romani, ghosts, zombies of a sort, police work, awful parents, magic, gangsters, Russian spies, renaissance faire, pedophilia, exes and more, all in one book. Way too much so no one thread is developed enough. The pedophilia story line just ends, no complete explanation as to what was going on there, no investigation to sort it out and no explanation at all to explain why two of the characters ultimately did what they did at the motel.

The main characters were mildly engaging, but some of their actions were off the wall, one even said it about the other. One line about forgiving someone in authority enabling a pedophile was an adult thing to do really struck a wrong nerve with me. WTF?!? Maybe this was addressed more in the first book which I hadn't read, but even so, it could have been left out, it served no purpose except to be distasteful.

I received my copy from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

Unfortunately this was a DNF because there was way too much telling