Shepherd's Warning by Cailyn Lloyd

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book is an okay-ish book. I have a thing for stories about haunted houses in any case, so most books about haunted houses get me hooked. I did have a couple of ... initially minor issues that kept grating though.

First: inconsistencies make any meh. A couple of pages before we find out Shepherd is a grey hat hacker who wants to keep a low profile technology-wise, he dislikes technology enough that he wants to pay with a severely outdated payment method, while a couple of sentences later he checks his e-mail on his iPhone and navigates with a Touch Pro. Which still makes an inconsistency with the wanting to keep a low profile; if he wants to look like he doesn't like technology, reasonably he'd check his e-mail on a desktop, and use maps before he'd pay in a manner my gran doesn't even use anymore, right? Plus, rubbing the readers' nose in that he uses expensive tech is bad enough without telling he is low-tech first.

That is another thing that might appear minor, but that kept rubbing me the wrong way. Why the dropping of brands all the time? Why do we need to know what kind of smartphone someone has, as long as it's functional? Same goes for navigation, laptops, tablets, etc. etc. Naming the brands and types usually just makes the book seem outdated sooner, and it makes me wonder what the writer had to gain by dropping brands to be honest.

Like I said, this are mostly minor things, but when done long enough in a book, they irk enough to really stamp their mark on it. The book itself still was pretty okay.

I received a free copy through Netgalley in return for an honest review.