Review: Widdershins

Widdershins by Jordan L. Hawk
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

As soon as an ancient Egyptian scroll, essential for the main antagonist for some reason, appeared on the pages, I couldn't stop thinking about an Archaeologist Tired Of Unearthing Unspeakable Ancient Evils. Really, authors at this point should do better with the plot. Evil overlords on a quest to destroy the world for no apparent reason are long out of fashion. As are awkward and socially inept, but secretly brave and brilliant scholars. I know a lot of scientists, there are a lot of introverts in the profession, but very few are complete disasters socially. Where did writers get this cliche?

So minus one star for the plot, but still four stars are left, because the writing is good (even if it hasn't been proofread all that well), the romance is engaging, and the erotic scenes are good. I'm even inclined to read the next book, though it seems the series was written for financial reasons mainly. The ending is good and solid and doesn't require a sequel, while even more "unspeakable ancient evils" in one small town would be almost absurd.

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