Format: Kindle, 264 pages
Release Date: January 28, 2024
Publisher: Black Dog Books, LLC.
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Urban Fantasy
In this tenth and final installment of The Black Hat Bureau
series, Rue races the clock to find her little moth girl before it’s too
late. As much as she wants to believe that Clay will protect Colby, he
isn’t himself when he’s under the director’s thrall. And the director
would toss a loinnir back like a shot of pure magic if he got his hands on her.
As
if Rue doesn’t already have enough heaped on her plate, Luca is
spreading her poison west in a twisted game of take-out roulette. Now
Rue must decide if saving one life is worth sacrificing the dozens of
innocents Luca will kill if Rue doesn’t make stopping her the top
priority.
As the director, Rue ought to put her agents’ lives and
the Bureau’s purpose above her own, but Colby is her child and—right or
wrong—Rue would burn down the world to save her.
Hailey Edwards' Gray Dawn is the Tenth and final installment in the authors Black Hat Bureau. If you've read this series from the beginning, you are in for a ride. Short summary: Rue Hollis is the de facto Director of the Black Hat Bureau. She is bound to a half Fae/half Demon former Prince in Asa/Blay. Her best friend is a golem named Clay. She is connected to a little moth girl who was once fae named Colby who has helped Rue transition from a Black Witch to a Gray Witch.
Her grandmother, Calixta, is now Queen of Hael, and her cousin Aedan is her hostage. Her father, Hiram Nasady, has been itching for revenge on his father who killed Rue's mother. For the past several books, Rue has been chasing her tail trying to find and stop a powerful former Fae Guardian named Luca who either wants to kill Rue's grandfather, or make it so that humans are aware that paranormals live along side of them. At the end of the previous book, Rue lost both Clay and Colby to betrayal.
Now, she has only 21 hours to find her grandfather and hand him over to Calixta or Aedan will never be freed. To make matters worse, the Maudit Grimore aka the Hulk, is taking Rue's magic from her to the point where she could end up without any magic to fight what's to come her way. The positives are that Rue has made peace with her former friend and employee, Arden whose eyes have been opened to the world she didn't know existed. It's also nice to see that Rue actually has real friends in Derry & Marita who have been acting as sort of bodyguards with all the trouble Rue has seen lately.
There are certain chapters where Clay and Colby are featured to ensure a bit of depth and let's the reader know what's going on outside of Rue's hunt for Luca and those she's collected in her efforts to destroy the Black Hat Bureau. I am also happy to see Clay get a bit of his own happiness which I won't spoil. As this is the finale of the series, most if not all storylines are tied up nicely, including a wonderful reunion between Arden and Aedan, and Colby finally meeting Rue's parents.
At the end of the final chapter, the author gives you a hint as to what she is working on next. I might actually try her new series to see what her new characters are like, and if they are any better than Rue.
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