** spoiler alert ** Little bit of a worldbuilding fail in this one. And probably the last one as well, but I didn't catch it because Kitty was off playing Thoreau in the mountains. Where's the mass panic about all the paranormal creatures now that Kitty went public in book 2? We see signs of people not wanting werewolves around (like Alice and Joe in the third book), but there's no uproar about people wanting to know if their friends/neighbors/parents/siblings/hs teacher is a werewolf, no mention of holding stakeouts after the full moon to catch them when they're vulnerable... nothing of the societal reaction that I would have expected. Hardin's magically got this whole supernatural police force behind her - who's paying for all that?

Anyway. Kitty's got relationship problems in this book, and I don't think the buildup is very smooth. The ending is a bit of a "ta-da, everything's fixed now!" with the engagement rather than a "Yes, I want to be with you because you are you, not because you happened to be there to help me out when I was turned into a werewolf." Also, Ben doesn't feel like he has much of a personality. It's kinda odd, because I thought I knew what he was like from the first two books but he doesn't act like that anymore. I don't know if it's because he's now Kitty's boyfriend, or because the werewolf changed him, but there's a void when it comes to describing him. (I think I've mentioned this before - that Vaughn seems to to do a better job with characters that we don't meet very often, or who don't have a central role to the plot, than those who we spend lots of screen time with). We see Cormac again, which was awesome! But I'm still sad that Kitty saw his hesitation as running away... and wish that she had waited for him. He lays out his regrets in a blunt fashion that makes me wish things had been different all over again.

Hm. What else. Oh, the radio talk show dynamic seems completely different now. Kitty feels snarky, she pouts and whines instead of listening to people and giving advice.