Book 11: An Unnatural Vice by KJ Charles

This book is everything for me that the first book in this series wasn't, oh my goodness. Justin Lazarus is a supernatural medium, a man who makes his living by tricking rich people and telling them what they want to hear, and Nathaniel Roy is a journalist out to expose Justin's entire trade. They both find themselves in the middle of a far more complicated and dangerous story than that, and somehow they go from enemies to lovers in the process. Justin is a character type that KJ Charles writes better than just about anyone, and the balance between him and Nathaniel is perfect and satisfying. I understood better what the first book in the series was setting up after reading this one, and it made me like some of those characters better as well. My one critique of this book is simply that I thought it could have been longer; there's a section in which Justin and Nathaniel have to flee London together for a while, and I would have loved for that to have gone even further in depth than it did. The third book in the series comes out this fall, and I cannot wait to read it.

Grade: A