So I wasn’t sold on Ghostwater at first. The rest of the series has very much felt like a flowing narrative - while this instalment felt like a pretty sharp departure from that. The story almost felt like a side-quest or filler episode and made it hard to get invested . . . at first. 

After the initial shock, I quickly got just as invested as usual - and in the end, the stand-alone nature of Ghostwater made it probably the most cohesive narrative in the series to date. 

Wight left us a breadcrumb trail of clues that eventually culminates in a story far more satisfying than I thought it would have been. On top of that - by the end it was clear that the events in this story are far more connected to the future of our protagonist than previously thought. 

Overall I was pleasantly surprised by Ghostwater, and indeed jumped straight into book 6!