(If you haven't read the previous nine books, ignore my review.) This book was meh, especially coming after Laurie's previous two, which were very enjoyable. The action is slow for the first 60% of the book, and Abbie is especially annoying. She moans and groans even when she knows she's got the weaker argument. She pushes her own work off on other people. The whole wedding subplot is just boring, and the comic relief from Cat wasn't funny or interesting.

I did not like the addition of politics (but especially Republican politics) to the series. I'm sure Laurie has already accounted for this and just doesn't give a damn about people on the other side of the red-blue divide, but I found it distasteful enough that I don't want to continue reading the series if that's how things are swinging. If you're a Republican, you may like it.

There are also some continuity issues that I found bizarre. We left Dutch at the end of the last book with just a 60% chance of LIVING, but yet he seems totally back to normal in this book, while Abbie can't walk without a cane. I mean, it's plausible that his type of injuries just healed faster, but I thought there needed to be a paragraph somewhere at least saying that's the case.