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And while i'm on the subject of Garrett's inner thoughts, what was up with everyone breaking him out of his thoughts all the time? His thoughts never really took up real time before, and honestly they don't really have to, so why now? He was broken out of some genuinely insightful thoughts for no real reason. It wasn't humorous and i honestly didn't appreciate everyone stopping the investigator from y'know, investigating. And then people had the nerve to roll their eyes at him for being slow!? Let the man think, you dinguses!

Finally, the mystery was very weak. The bad guys are inept at best. Their motivation was weak and felt contrived. Garrett seemed to have more problems solving this mystery because of distractions in his persona life and because the bad guys were doing things in a more random (idiotic) fashion than any logical person would do. P.S. You might think that, having now read the last four bloody sentences in the bloody book, I'd want to change my rating to a slightly less despicable one, but I won't. Because the actual ending is even worse than the truncated one reasons and stuff. I think that's all i have to say. This only stays at three stars because i have a lot of respect for what this series was--a chronicle of a hard boiled detective in a fantasy world. Something of a counterpoint, to me at least, to Butcher's Dresden Files. It isn't that anymore, and i don't know if i care to read further. As it is, the previous book felt more like an ending than anything else, and maybe that's telling. Other reviewers have noted that the series seems to have overreached a little. Maybe they're on to something. Not the best of the series, but not the worst by any means. Either way, this appears to be the *last* of the series :-( It's been six years since this was published. In the past, a new Garrett, P.I. novel showed up every 18 months or so. Sad, but every well runs dry, eventually.

Now at Bronze Ambition!

A grand underground tournament has been set up and is meant to be a battle-royale type: the kids are in it if they want to or not and whether they have actual magic powers or not. This case gets very close for Garrett personally because someone he loves has died and now he is out for revenge.

However, I can't help but like the Garrett series, even if we're now at 14 books with no real end in sight. There's just something oddly charming about them, and about Glen Cook's often peculiar, and quite stylish (not always good, mind you), way of writing. Unrelated to the action of the story is the idea that this is a second re-positioning novel for Garrett. Cruel Zinc Melodies (#12) seemed like it was putting the final touches on the Garrett series. Its conclusion had Garrett and Tinnie Tate moving in together. At the same time, Garrett had recurring, steady work that didn't involve him getting beaten up and with enough money that he didn't have to hustle anymore. All in all, a nice capper to a long running series. Seriously, Garrett's fiancee/wife is murdered and the emotional fallout is less than when he broke up with Tinnie Tate. I kept waiting for some kind of emotional breakdown, but ol’ Garrett just plods on. He does have a single night’s drinking, but even that doesn’t hurt; magical hangover medicince mitigated the effects.John Stretch’s ratmen do more investigating than Garrett does in this book. Not to be racist, (ratmen are people too!) but we expect more from you than that, Garrett. As a side note: this recent trend of closing a novel as soon as the action finishes is really tiresome. I get the idea behind it - close on an emotional high point where the story is finished - but in practice, well, I read these novels because I love the characters. I have loved them for over twenty years at this point and I've read each novel multiple times. Give me the dammed epilogue that fulfills the emotional connections beyond those served up in the narrative action. Editors at Tor and Roc, I'm looking at you.) only Garrett’s friends reacted to her death in any way; Garrett and Strafa's family sort of shrugged it off.

I usually dislike 'urban fantasy' series that run too long, or that stray too close to the tropes of that sub-genre as they are almost universally terrible. I'll spare you a rant about Jim Butcher, here.The language is interesting, even if it sometimes skews a little aggressively modern ('oh snap' does not feel natural here) and at times a touch experimental, but that's all part of the charm. The one thing I didn't like, in this book specifically, was the subplot with Hagekagome, which felt a bit superfluous, and at times a bit creepy. Which is a shame, since Cook doesn't generally seem afraid of writing strong, or interesting women – even if Garrett's attitude to them should be ignored at all times, of course. Some notes: Firstly, while this is a review of WBA, it's also going to pull in my opinions on some of the other books, and the series as a whole too. A magical contest is threatening the young of the more wealthy families in Tunfaire. Garret's new family ties have dragged him into the conflict. Now , he and his friends and a few other assorted allies have to stop the madness before too many people are killed. Plots within plots within plots will have to be untamgled to get to the truth.