Did GHOST IN THE MAZE feel short?

A few people have mentioned that GHOST IN THE MAZE felt shorter than the previous GHOSTS books.

Which is amusing, because GHOST IN THE MAZE was actually 6,000 words longer (about 400 Kindle locations or 15-20 Nook pages) than GHOST IN THE COWL. In fact GHOST IN THE MAZE was only 500 words shorter than GHOST IN THE SURGE.

I suspect the feeling of shortness comes from the fact that the last 8 of GHOST IN THE MAZE’s 22 chapters take place over approximately a four-hour period or so. Granted, it’s a very busy four hours, but it’s still only a short time. Also, in both GHOST IN THE COWL and GHOST IN THE MAZE, Caina was the only point-of-view character, and in my experience books with one POV are generally shorter than books with multiple POVs.

So I suspect GHOST IN THE HUNT will be a little longer, since it will have three POV characters – Caina, a returning POV character from two other GHOSTS books, and a new POV character.

-JM