This one fell flat pretty early on with a meeting of the supernatural powers that went so clichée I feared for my eyesight from all the eye-rolling.
This wasn't the only reason for me to stop obviously but it was a pretty big last nail in the coffin.
I just couldn't understand any of the decisions or the reactions of the main cast at all anymore. In this one, it just became so blatantly obvious I couldn't keep suspending disbelief any longer especially because there wasn't any particularly ingenious plot reveal before either which meant there wasn't even anything to look forward to.
Don't put out of character or plain illogical thoughts into your protagonist's heads just to further the plot. That is lazy and cheap and we notice. ( )

"Gods and Ends" starts where the previous book ended - with Delaney in trouble because of the bite from the ancient vampire and with Ben missing (because of the same ancient vampire). The town rallies together to help, the vampires and the werewolves find a way to work together and everyone goes after the ancient evil. Meanwhile the local yarn workers are organizing a war (with some juvenile names as organization names - while they were good for a chuckle, having them 10 times on the same page made me roll my eyes) and things get even more tangled.

The novel was supposed to be the end of a trilogy but as it often happens, the trilogy grew up (or as Monk says in her afterword, the demon Bathin showed up and took Delaney's soul in a fair bargain). Despite that, it feels like an ending - the story started in the first novel is closed (although there is a demon in town who has a soul that is not his own and we know that there is a war coming). The end of the novel does not leave the town as it found it though - in order to solve the issues, Delaney had to do something unconventional and missed something in the small print of her powers - so Ordinary becomes a bit different for awhile. ( )

Gods and Ends
(Ordinary Magic #3)
by Devon Monk
A fun, complex story that has each book building on each other. Just enough suspense, humor, wit, and romance to make it enjoyable. The smart plot with rich characters really make this series stand out. This one was the most intense yet! ( )