These stories are enjoyable because the problems and how they are resolved make sense. Though I enjoyed 1-4 this one not so much and I’ll stop here for now. Somehow we had major personality shifts with an outbreak of stupid all around. Our Mad Mc went from smart operator to novice, Barb lost her abilities and Ragus became so befuzzled by a girl that his amazing performance in book one seems a different person altogether. Books where main characters do really stupid things are annoying. Everyone knows when the dumb kids in the stabby thriller are doing something dumb—well this whole book was like that. It is frustrating as I was enjoying the series. It’s like when a good author “teams” with another author and creates a bad book. Whoever helped out here really killed it for me. 1-4 good, 5 terrible.