This was...alright? Not great, not unreadable. Its supposed to be a mystery, our protagonist is a magic using PI like in many other series riding the urban fantasy wave of the aughts, except there's not really any investigation going on? We have a mystery (a murder!), but its mostly action and the main character running around asking people for help rather than doing any actual sleuthing, magical or otherwise. The twist and the murderer are also telegraphed pretty clearly pretty early on.returnMaybe its suffering from being the first in a series. I believe the library has the rest of them, and they're fast reads, so I may give another 2-3 of them a shot to see if it improves, but I'm not sold on them at present.returnSeeing that the author writes a lot of spider gwen comics also goes a long way to helping me understand where the pacing and type of storytelling might be coming from as well.