Mine, too. It is always a pleasant surprise, though, because it is better than I remember it to be. But it is not as nice as the others. In part because it is a little repetitive -- it feels like a second introduction sometimes, in part because it has too many annoying characters. But I think much of my annoyance stems from the fact that I originally (the first time I read it) thought that this monster thing meant that HP was less plot arch focused than I had hoped, and that it would just be a random monster of the week kind of thing. I was wrong, of course, but the feeling lingers.