Reviewed by Lianne on
This book is divided to four sections, four different cases in which Ravi and the Golden Sentinels are hired to investigate different cases–a politician who thinks a ghost is haunting him, a missing daughter, amongst others. It’s interesting and fast-paced, nothing is what it seems and it’s just absolutely nutty, an aspect of his job that isn’t lost on Ravi. And to top things off he can see the Hindu gods, something that doesn’t quite make sense right now and why it’s happening to him, but it does colour the situation further. It should make for an interesting television show, especially how the book ends.
What also added to the experience of reading this book was the cast of characters. Ravi is a fascinating character with quite the background–definitely the last person you’d see become a private detective–and family life that weaves in and out of the story. Seeing the Hindu gods of course also adds to his character and his backstory and I’m curious to see how it plays in further in the next books. The other members of Roger’s Golden Sentinels are also interesting with their own respective backstories; each of them are highlighted with each story, but I feel we’ve only scratched the surface with these characters and they should be more fleshed out later on. Nonetheless I’ve enjoyed reading the scenes and camraderie amongst the characters, even Ravi’s home life.
Overall I really enjoyed Her Nightly Embrace. It’s fast-paced, the characters are quite the motley crew with great interaction (and did I mention diverse?), and there’s a lot of intrigue as well. The cases were interesting, though I wasn’t terribly interested in the last case (even though that case just blew a hole on what’s really going on in the firm that Ravi works for). I highly recommend this book if you’re looking for a fast and interesting mesh of genres read, I look forward to the next installment in the trilogy as well as the television show and how the story will unfold there.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 19 August, 2016: Finished reading
- 19 August, 2016: Reviewed