Morgan Brice's new Witchbane novel, The Devil You Know, is actually a pretty good continuation of the story, even as it continues expanding the shared world she's building with all of her various and sundry series.
Evan and Seth are in Cleveland looking for their next Witch Disciple, this time a drug dealing businessman who makes drugs for supernatural people. This time, Seth gets cursed (and kidnapped) with a spell that mentally connects him with his greatest desire, while Evan is stuck trying to navigate alliances with the Supernatural FBI to take down the next disciple.
Seth's hallucinations are kind of painful to read, since his greatest desire is his family who died before the series started. It's rough reading about his relationship with his brother and parents, and it runs counterpoint to Evan's youngest brother who shows up in Cleveland and gets sucked in to the narrative.
While everything does get resolved as one would expect in this series, dealing with things from both boys' past helps humanize them a lot more than what we've seen. Bonus points for Evan finally figuring out he's safe to not go back for a parental visit to retraumatize himself.
Fun book.
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