This was very close to a two-star, which is frustrating.

All the elements are there. Well-researched background. Interesting supernatural entities. A freaking Seal team devoted to fighting them.

But, along with that comes the author's unending desire to give you precise measurements and statistics and model numbers of all the weaponry at that team's fingertips. A little is okay, but this much makes me feel like I'm reading the catalogue to Seal Teams R Us. It's distracting.

And also, while most of the dialogue is good, when it comes time for someone to deliver information, Ochse again falls back on a dictionary-spewing info dump that even the audiobook reader had difficulty getting through.

So, much as I wanted to love this series, this is as far as I go. ( )