When a privileged twat has annoyed him, I just know his next action is to start punching, and I love that I’ve formed such a connection with his character that I can anticipate his response. I can’t get enough of his humour and dry wit there were several moments while reading this book where I laughed out loud over his reaction to things because it was such a Will response. That is definitely the feeling I have for Will Darling, the sarcastic, quick-tempered, bit of a bastard main character.

What I love most about book series is getting to really understand a character as their development takes place over several books, to the point where you feel as though you know them as much as the author. Together, Will and Kim must work to solve a murder while dealing with Kim’s horrible family and trying to stop an old emery that has risen from the shadows once again. Worse, he knows that Will doesn’t belong in that type of world. But then, Kim’s elder brother is accused of murder at his gentleman’s club, and Kim is whisked back into the hated world of privilege and peerage that he’s tried so hard to distance himself from. Will spends his days working at his bookshop, sometimes with Kim alongside him, while Kim has to learn how to live his life without his position as a former spy. Subtle Blood follows Will and Kim months after the devastating events of The Sugared Game, as the two men’s lives have finally calmed down enough and they’re able to just be together. And this book delivered in ways I couldn’t have even imagined, and my months-long reading slump was finally over! I’ve been in a reading slump for a few months because I wanted to read this book - not a book similar to Subtle Blood, like a historical, or a romance, or even a crime novel, but actually Subtle Blood.

The finale to The Will Darling Adventures is a book I have waited for with bated breath, and the moment it arrived in my inbox, I could have cried.

Subtle Blood by K.J. Charles