After thoroughly enjoying the first three Alex Verus novels I was really excited to find this one on sale and sat down to read it pretty much right away on receiving it Were my expectations too high I don t think so The Alex Verus novels are a serialised set of adventures of a very enjoyable to read rogue mage, so there is a level of predictability and returning to the same characters, I was expecting that I did not realise it was 7 and that I was skipping ahead than one novel from my previous [...]