A McIntee novel always comes with a lot of atmosphere, and that atmosphere is usuall grimy, dark, and gloomy. Certainly, that is so in Autumn Mist - not a bad book, exactly, but one I definitely struggled with. We're launched immediately into the depths of battle in WWII, where Fitz pretends to be a Nazi and Sam gets shot dead. Again. This poor girl, it feels, has been dead in more books than she's been alive.

Perhaps this was a little of a 'me issue', because I'll openly admit, the World Wars setting does very little for me. The random fairy plot in this one also did little for me too - they were very ethereal and spooky and did a great job bringing Sam back from the brink, but they were also just kind of... there. I don't feel that the Doctor did much either, but I'll also confess that by the end, I was skim reading just to get through it.

I wouldn't say I hated this one; as I say, it wasn't dreadful. It did feel an awful lot at the start like somewhere for McIntee to put all his facts about WWII tanks, but it was very readable. It was nicely written. But that's about all positive I have to say for it. This one just didn't really work for me, unfortunately.