Silver Master (Ghost Hunters Series #4) Book

This was a great deal of fun. By now in the series, you should know what to expect. While this series does better than most at keeping each book independent of the others, I'd still recommend at least reading the first two before later volumes. One of the benefits of doing so is that you'll know whether you like these books in general. Castle does a great job maintaining the same tone and general expectations without being predictable or formulaic.

I liked this one much better than the last one. The two main characters were fantastic and I fell for both early and hard. Davis is that perfect blend of competence and caring with all the alpha capability and only brief flashes of trying to tell Celinda what to do'flashes that she was more than willing and able to tell him to stuff it. And I liked Celinda almost as much. She was strong and resolute in the face of serious set-backs, working carefully to recover from a truly horrifying, life-disrupting event. Castle deserves some serious kudos for managing the revelations of Celinda's past trauma in a way that was the perfect crafting of new detail and right moment.

I was worried about Celinda's particular psi talent at first. She reads people's psi energy and that gives her insight into their personalities. There's hints of more being possible. This could easily have been abused by a clumsier author by giving either too much information or conveniently forgetting it to maintain suspense. Castle does a great job of having it remain consistent and still impact the story appropriately. I worried a bit when her talent had her attach to Davis so quickly, but that turned out pretty perfect as well.

And yes, this was another suspense novel, so more of the bad-guy PoV. I didn't mind it in this one, though, because Castle played it pretty straight (that I knew it was coming didn't hurt, either).

And I'm coming to really love the dust bunnies. They're cute and a rather broad gimmick but they have such personality and presence that I fall for them every time. Interestingly, Castle manages to give each one distinctive enough personality even with their limited range of interactions (they're predatory fluff. There's only so much they can do) that I attach to them nearly as much as to the main characters.

Anyway, stronger main characters and an interesting story had me glued to the action throughout. It's a solid four stars pretty much from start to finish.

A note about Steamy: The middle of my steam range. There were three explicit sex scenes though of relatively short length (a page or so).