3.5 STARS

While I enjoyed this book it wasn't as good as the rest. Many reasons for this which I'll explain later, just wanted to say that I'm a bit disappointed about the book. After I finished book 3 I was extremely happy to see book 4 would be about one of the original characters as I adored them all and I had been hoping more books about them would come out. But this book wasn't the same as the rest, it was even written in a different way; which was not a good thing as I believe SK is a goddess in this genre and should stick to her usual writing techniques.

First, the beginning was REALLY slow, it took me forever to start enjoying the book, almost 50% of it. Too much plot developing and not enough focus on the romance. Moreover, the plot was mostly about politics, which I don't find an interesting topic at all, specially when it's politics from a fictional world from a distant galaxy. My top fav characters were not in the book either, which was a huge mistake IMHO; I missed Nyk and Syn so badly. We do get a bit of Darling, but not really much, mostly superficial comments. We get to read much more about Hawke though, which wasn't well introduced as a character till now. I loved Hawke and I definitely wanna read more about him and his brother Faine.

Luckily the 2nd half of the book was much better and things got really interesting. Still, this must be the book with less sheet action from our lovely author SK. I think we see them together on a bed just once, and that's about it; but as the plot gets better we don't miss it much . The hero and the heroine were great. I don't know why so many didn't like Cai much, but I just adored him! His sense of humor was great, he's just the type of guy I love to have as a hero. The heroine though was a bit disappointing. I thought she would be one of those super strong ass-kicking heroines but at the end she was just another weak girl who needed the hero to protect her from EVERYTHING.

Overall, it was a nice book. I had a nice time reading it but I found myself leaving it every now and then to do something else, it never completely grabbed my whole attention. I'm just sorry a stronger story wasn't written about Cai as I adored him since his first appearance. I hope Darling's book is better.