Thankless in Death is book 37, plus a few shorts, and I’ve been reading them all up to this point. They’re fine. They’re mostly an easy read, I usually get through them in a couple of nights each depending on when I’m working. Sometimes they surprise you though, the killer in this book is particularly horrible, and there’s a lot of competition considering I’m several dozen books in. Some of the books are really good, but I don’t read any other crime, nor do I know anything about policework. The overarching story of the main character getting her life together is the most interesting part, but you only really get a trickle of that each book so if you get into it you’re stuck there for about 60 novels. I started in about 2008 with Creation in Death and read maybe 10-12 of the books randomly because I was a broke teen who took what he could get, that book was good enough that it hooked me and got me back a over decade later to give the series a complete read.

I haven’t read any other McGuire. Incryptid is almost a guilty pleasure, the first 2 books were ok, but I really enjoyed the third. The series switches point of view characters every couple of books so I haven’t seen everyone yet, but that’s something I enjoy except for the fact that when you get attached to someone they might not show back up for a while. This one I’ve been listening to rather than reading, Ray Porter does the narration for book 3’s character and he’s fantastic. They even got the narrator from the first two books in for all of 5 lines in a phone call, which was a nice surprise. I mainly got into these (and Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson books) to fill time before the next Dresden Files, but they’re both enjoyable enough.

In my opinion Resident Evil’s story is absolute balls, and I don’t expect the books to be any better. I’m like 20 pages into the first one so I can’t fairly judge that yet.