Dave Stone's Reviews > Breaking and Entering 101

Ends well, but is a drag getting to the end
I absolutely loved book 1 & 2 of this series, and then book 3 just derailed the whole thing.
While this book is better than Magic outside the box (book 3) it still took me over a week to get through it.
Most of the interesting ideas from book 1 have been dropped, world building has almost completely stopped, and what few differences that separated this world from earth are being erased.
I still have fond feelings for the characters, but I think the author is either running out of ideas or getting very lazy.
For example: a character on this world uses the term "Gaslight" in the physiological sense, That term is from the earth play of the same name. Yes, this is a nit picky detail, but it's from these little details that world building is formed. Someone on this other world also wrote a play called Gas Light and it was also a dark tale of a marriage based on deceit and trickery, and a husband committed to driving his wife insane in order to steal from her?
It's these little flaws that break suspension of disbelief and interrupt the narrative flow.