Love a book with a good strong name. The greyfriar, rolls off your tongue nicely doesn't it. 
 This is gonna be a short review. Hello? Five stars should speak for itself. I want to highlight a few key things that blew me away. 
 1: Not only is this a fantastical tale to work them poor missused brain muscles, but it is truly great literature. Not overly so. Will not bore you to tears. I promise. 
 2: I don't know about you, but I hate characters with no follow through. Authors have a tendancy to write characters that end up tooting their own horn or are all talk. 
 Love Gareth aka the Greyfriar. Not always hard for me to fall in love with the male lead character when I'm reading a book. The hard sell is always the female lead. They are never as strong as the writer portrays and they make stupid decisions. 
 Adele broke the habit. While the average tough female is saying, "I'm gonna mess you up". Adele walks past said female and proceeds to kick the ass of any baddie that stands in her way. She can also be very diplomatic when needed. 
 3: Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith wrote this series together. I am very fond of husband & wife writing teams. It blows me away what can come of two great minds coming together. I don't think this would have been half as fantastic as it is had it been writer singularly. 
 I can see a Mrs. Greyfriar in the future. Monsterzzz beware.