I actually read Jennifer Blackstream‘s Deadline way back around the same time as Hunted… but kind of forgot about it. Anyway, its main issue is how inconsistent the protagonist’s ability level is presented as. Is she a centuries-old power trained by Baba Yaga herself… or a weak nobody just starting out? You can’t really have it both ways.
Putting aside a couple alarming statements found in the Fore/Afterword sections, there’s not much to complain about with D.C. Haenlien‘s third Adelheid novel. Main issue right now is that the technological advancement is getting a bit out of hand: The food empire was questionable but believable enough, the concrete is pushing things, and the train is right out of bounds.