I picked this as an impulse buy for the kindle because it seemed interesting. Unfortunately I didn't realize that it was the 3rd book in a series. Because of this fact there was prior characters ands relationships that was mentioned but never fully explained. I don't blame this on the author more on myself for not realizing that this book takes place in the middle of an established series. The reason for a 3 out of 5 is because even though there were points in the book that kept me wanting to see what happened next they barely overshadowed the times when I basically glanced over the pages because the story slowed down to a crawl.