Well, I still feel the same
as I did the last time I read the sixth book of this series. Way too much filler, fluff, unnecessarily long-winded on material I "remember" reading about in the first six books. Ideas, refreshing ones memory, that in of itself is not bad and needed, especially if there has been much time passed waiting for the next book. Nothing wrong with a quick paragraph, or using clever snippets in with the new, as the story moves forward. However, that can become boring very quickly when drawn out to fill the word-count needed to make the publisher happy. But filling pages with dribbles of new details, while writing tiring details which drag on and on; much like chowing on an expensive but tough steak. You keep chewing with the hope firstly, that you will get to the expected flavor for this $100 fillet, but after 5 minutes of chewing, one now settles on just hoping it will go down the gullet without one choking on it and needing to be resuscitated. Ugh!
In my first read of book 6 I didn't finish the book and actually stopped reading the series altogether. This time I tried to chew through it, after all this was supposed to be a special treat. A $100 dollars steak is surely a treat saved for special occasions, and ones expectations are right up there next to the price on the menu. This time I quickly cut the chewing time by skipping a bunch of pages. I used my almost forgotten course on speed-reading, scanned for something new and tasty, and if not new and tasty, then I moved at a pretty good place past those pages. Unfortunately it wasn't just a lot of rehashing the story this far - (who picks up book 6 in a series they have not read each book anyway?) - no, there just wasn't much new in this book, and even there, too many words saying little, is simply not what I am used to with Chaney and Mixon.
But seriously, this should not happen in book 6 with several more books in this series awaiting it's readers. And from such great (good😕) writers (rem the $100 steak?) I expect them to know when a story has run it's course. Quit while you're ahead? Fluff does not for a good story make, it's actually rather insulting to the readers, underestimating your fans, your followers, any reader really, maybe thinking that fans don't appreciate or expect the story to keep getting better and better.
Well, I got through this book much quicker than usual, you know, "chew slowly" to get all the flavors the steak has to offer. But now I'm not sure if I actually want to continue reading this series. Would I go back to the same restaurant to try the $100 steak one more time?
This you will have to decide for yourself.
I personally have only so much time for reading pleasures. Rather than just quitting after spending time to write this, yeah, witty expose, and after having voiced my disappointment reading book 6, I'm going to download a sample of book 7 and read a few reviews on the rest of this series. After all, I already have much invested in this series. So I give finishing reading the whole series another chance.