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The Witch and His Doctor by Kiki Clark
4.0
This is the 6th and final book of Kiki Clark’s Kincaid Pack series. While each book covers a couple’s/poly’s romantic arc – there’s an ongoing mystery/suspense that weaves through the books starting in The Alpha and His King. As such, this review may contain spoilers to earlier books.
There's always some trepidation when I've loved all the books in a series as much as I have these as to whether the series ending can live up to my expectations. Fortunately, Clark did a great job with this finale.
I've been looking forward to Doc & Damien since I've loved both their characters and age gap romance. Given how much was going on in this book I felt the main couple got a nice relationship development. The end of The Enforcer and His Heart had huge revelations in terms of Damien being Jess's brother and that he's been spying on the pack this whole time. Damien's acceptance of the shunning by everyone except Tashmicah had me bawling for the majority of the first half of the book. Once the Pack learns the reasons they slowly open up to him. Doc's struggle felt realistic and not overly dragged out. (Doc's term of endearment for Damien of "Baby Boy" wasn't my fav, but I know that's just a personal preference). He became a staunch advocate and protector of Damien. Swoon.
Things with the council are coming to a head and all the interactions and secrets that are revealed offers a lot of tension and suspense. While I would have liked the part that took place in Mehko to have been told in real time instead of an "after" in the last chapter - I did enjoy the "big event" between... ok, no spoilers.
The epilogue offered a nice wrap up for not only Doc & Damien, but many other members of the Pack as well. I loved the way Clark concluded not only the story but the whole series.
She definitely has a spin-off series planned and I'm looking forward to those books.
Narration:
Kirt Graves was absolutely amazing in this series start to finish. But this one is emotional and I was literally ugly crying through much of it because his performance was so evocative. All these characters that I've spent years following, loving, adoring - he really was each one of them. I don't have the words to express how fiercely I love the narration.
There's always some trepidation when I've loved all the books in a series as much as I have these as to whether the series ending can live up to my expectations. Fortunately, Clark did a great job with this finale.
I've been looking forward to Doc & Damien since I've loved both their characters and age gap romance. Given how much was going on in this book I felt the main couple got a nice relationship development. The end of The Enforcer and His Heart had huge revelations in terms of Damien being Jess's brother and that he's been spying on the pack this whole time. Damien's acceptance of the shunning by everyone except Tashmicah had me bawling for the majority of the first half of the book. Once the Pack learns the reasons they slowly open up to him. Doc's struggle felt realistic and not overly dragged out. (Doc's term of endearment for Damien of "Baby Boy" wasn't my fav, but I know that's just a personal preference). He became a staunch advocate and protector of Damien. Swoon.
Things with the council are coming to a head and all the interactions and secrets that are revealed offers a lot of tension and suspense. While I would have liked the part that took place in Mehko to have been told in real time instead of an "after" in the last chapter - I did enjoy the "big event" between... ok, no spoilers.
The epilogue offered a nice wrap up for not only Doc & Damien, but many other members of the Pack as well. I loved the way Clark concluded not only the story but the whole series.
She definitely has a spin-off series planned and I'm looking forward to those books.
Narration:
Kirt Graves was absolutely amazing in this series start to finish. But this one is emotional and I was literally ugly crying through much of it because his performance was so evocative. All these characters that I've spent years following, loving, adoring - he really was each one of them. I don't have the words to express how fiercely I love the narration.