Magdalena Wallace has already saved the world … twice! Not a bad record for a nihilist who doesn’t believe anything truly matters. Now she just wants to be left alone with her girlfriend so they can murder men who catcall them. But a gigantic, eldritch, tentacled kaiju is on its way to destroy humanity, so the vampires have to get the gang back together to rescue their food supply.

Can a non-binary golem, a teenage werewolf, a resentment-fueled warlock, an optimistic amnesiac reanimated skeleton, and a couple of vampires escape the trolls (who secretly manipulate humans through comments sections), rescue a luck dragon, and save the human race from the doom unleashed by the merpeople? 

Maybe.

Can The Convention of Fiends convince any major Hollywood studio to make their story into a high-budget summer blockbuster? 

Impossible.

My Review:

This is a globetrotting monster-filled existential comedy and a satisfying conclusion to the Convention of Fiends trilogy. If you like books with lesbian vampires, teenage werewolves, reanimated skeletons, dragon smut, and/or a horrible tentacled menace, grab this one! But I recommend catching up on the rest of the series first so you know how we got into this fix and why you should care.

I loved rejoining Lena and her monster pals as they try to save the world yet again, for both humans and monsters. There are some interesting ethical questions raised along with the comedy and adventure, such as: How possible is it for a vampire to kill only those who deserve it? If a reanimated skeleton of a bad guy has no memory of that time, is it still a bad guy? Personally, I was delighted to meet Napoleon Bone-Apart and wish I could get a hug.