I didn't know these were actually two novellas in the same universe (with a cross-over in the epilogues), which would have been great... except I liked the first one more than the second one. (Note: the "not knowing" mostly comes from "new Mihalik = auto-buy", because it's actually clear in the summary :D ) Still, it was a fun read, and managed to get my head out of gesticulates wildly things last night - not bad!