Between helping Christine plan her wedding, trying to figure out his father’s latest scheme and his work at the Museum Whyborne has his hands full. Maelstrom was awesome, magical, thrilling and so exciting! I think the grin on my face might be permanent by now ) It's finally time for Christine and Iskander to get married and due to the generosity of Whyborne's father the festivities are to be held at his childhood home. Also, Mr Simmons was nice to listen to as ever, my only wish for him would be to do more audiobooks in general. Perhaps the title giving Maelstrom itself could have been a bit more impressive and incomprehensible still, but any critcisim is extremely minor, I could literally not stop listening and the suspense was very good, even though I saw the culrpit before our heroes did (but I find their reasoning for it perfectly valid). It pretty much had all that I wanted and missed a bit in the previous books. I quite liked to see Griffin being more dominant again as well (I missed that and this time felt just right with the two of them), the occult mystery part felt interesting and very nicely creepy and the whole family drama of the Whybornes added nicely to it all without feeling too over the top. For returning readers, I think I can definitely say that Maelstrom is a very satisfying sequel.

Still, if you have not listened to the previous books, just go to Widdershince and start there, while Maelstrom is a very nice entry, I still would say Widdershince is my all time favourite. I should really state that I like those kinds of little things which allow the reader to also actually learn something interesting. It also adds in many interesting little tidbits again, which nicely round out the experience, mentioning things in passing which are as fr as I can jude well researched and add quite a bit to the atmosphere. The book provides the usual mix of occult mystery, male / male romance and good supporting characters. Maelstrom returns again to the town of Widdershince, and honestly, I usually always like those books a bit better than the 'travel' entries.

Maelstrom by Jordan L. Hawk