This is volume 7 of this series, which if anyone remembers from my previous reviews, I’d started to get bored with. For the last few volumes, in fact, I struggled to keep up with the story because I didn’t remember a full half of the characters. There was some debate whether I would read this volume at all, but as it took place on a cruise – one of my favorite book settings – I decided to give it a chance.

It was better than I expected. I attribute this to three things: 1) the setting; 2) the setting creating a limited number of characters, most of whom were the ones I actually remembered; and 3) the narrator, Kate Reading, who always makes books better. I could follow the entire narrative this time, though periodically there would be mention of characters and former side-plots that I barely remembered. I’m still not entirely sure I’ll continue with the series, but this is one more volume, at least, that I’m invested in.

Not really much else to say except that I loved the descriptions of the ship rocking in rougher seas. Mostly because I absolutely love when the ship rocks like that. I sleep better than I do normally, and it took nearly a week of being on land before I stopped feeling a phantom rocking from time to time. Perhaps this is one of the reasons I love cruises so much. Maybe I was a sailor in a former life.