Ishmael Jones deserves better.
Excessively repetitive stalled out storyline.
Banter between Ishmael & Penny is absent.
Locked room mystery without any supernatural/unnatural element. ( )

As this is book 5 in the series and I have read them all have I started to see a pattern to these tales. Well, you only have to read two books to see a pattern. Ishmael Jones and Penny travel to a remote place and in the castle/old mansion, etc. weird shit happens and many people die horribly.

Dead Man Walking the first book I read in this series (and book two in the series) is still my favorite Ishmael Jones book. I think because the concept was new and I was intrigued by his past and all the gory deaths, of course, made the book awesome. Yeah, I'm very easy to please.

Into the Thinnest of Air is so far the one book that I feel is not really working for me. Sure, there were some funny moments between Ishmael and Penny, but the funny banter felt lighter than usual and the mystery of the Tyrone Castle felt neither intriguing nor especially mysterious. People that kept mysteriously disappearing? Not as interesting as people suddenly being brutally murdered along the way by some mysterious foe. And, the ending, well I was not terribly surprised, to be honest. I do hope the next book is better.

I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review. ( )

As this is book 5 in the series and I have read them all have I started to see a pattern to these tales. Well, you only have to read two books to see a pattern. Ishmael Jones and Penny travel to a remote place and in the castle/old mansion, etc. weird shit happens and many people die horribly.

Dead Man Walking the first book I read in this series (and book two in the series) is still my favorite Ishmael Jones book. I think because the concept was new and I was intrigued by his past and all the gory deaths, of course, made the book awesome. Yeah, I'm very easy to please.

Into the Thinnest of Air is so far the one book that I feel is not really working for me. Sure, there were some funny moments between Ishmael and Penny, but the funny banter felt lighter than usual and the mystery of the Tyrone Castle felt neither intriguing nor especially mysterious. People that kept mysteriously disappearing? Not as interesting as people suddenly being brutally murdered along the way by some mysterious foe. And, the ending, well I was not terribly surprised, to be honest. I do hope the next book is better.

I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review. ( )

I keep coming back to this series because it's like a warm blanket that keeps me cozy. It also causes mild anxiety because I have no idea whats going on until the end. That said there was a problem with this one. Near the end when the mystery is revealed there was one point that stuck out. We're told that the lead character has superhuman hearing. Well apparently he could hear a door opening and closing from five feet away. Also characters disappear in what seems like seconds without a trace. When you find out how this happens it doesn't make too much sense that someone could disappear without leaving some trace behind for the superhuman lead character to pick up on. Other then that it was very suspenseful and heartbreaking near the end. Another good entry in this series.

I read this book via NetGalley. I thank them for this book. #IntoTheThinnestOfAir #NetGalley ( )

Into the Thinnest of Air
(Ishmael Jones #5)
by Simon R. Green
This book takes Ishmael and Penny on a "quiet" night out to an opening to a refurbished inn with a history. It was a smugglers inn and a site of a mass murder. Things don't end up being as quiet as the couple expected. People start disappearing. Pretty good story. I did figure out part of the story right away but not the who! I still enjoyed it a great deal! ( )