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Lol, Aelyx's assessment of Cara's attractive qualities. "You're well nourished, intelligent for a human, and your waist to hip ratio would pass live offspring without complication." I like him.

This is starting to smell faintly of Amy Kathleen Ryan's Skychasers trilogy. Only it doesn't smell quite as good as that...russet-toned alien clone, red haired smart chick, alternating POVs....

Annnnnnd now that dream is crushed. Holy anglicizing, batman!!! That guys skin is totally not russet, nor is his hair long. Unless he has a rat tail, in which case send him back to L'eihr.

Red haired character, red haired cover model. See, cover designers? See? Not that damn hard to get it right!!!

Commentary on the cult of celebrity. Nicely crafted.

He gives Victra a perfume called Petrichor. For the girl who's tired of waiting? Yet another stellar sci-fi reference.

"What the gorydamnandshit is your damage, you overreacting mountain troll?" "Rhyming...nnnngh." Lol. Sevro and friends, ladies and gentlemen.

"I do or do not, there is no plan." I don't know which reference I like better: that (from a giant beast, the total opposite of Yoda, which makes it funnier), or the alien proof theorem being called the Drake-Roddenberry equation.

Lorax is the new favorite. Lol

Withering heights, lol. So completely on point.

"THIS URN!!!" John Keats= best entry yet.

So basically Darrow and Sevro are Kirk and Khan from Star Trek: Into Darkness?

"He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted." Preach it, Roque.

I have a feeling my arc is missing page breaks. I feel like I'm time traveling when Darrow jumps from one place to another or several hours in a single space...

Page 50, 800 deaths, still no freaking clue what's going on. This book really needed a "here's what happened in book 1" summary. I feel like I'm reading a foreign language.

Note to future readers: read these after all three are out. I have no clue what happened in the first book or who any of these people are. A summary would be useful...

Hey look, a random sex scene 50 pages from the end. Methinks I see a trend, LaFevers.

I feel like Ismae and Sybella's friendship, as well as Sybella and Julian's relationship, have been glossed over. I need some fleshing out.

Almost 100 pages before first blood? Unacceptable!!!

Wow, you really can't read this book before Grave Mercy. It would make no sense. Good thing I read that first!

Sex...cures...poison? I'm so confused! And that's just so awkward! I don't even care if that's a spoiler because it's too damn weird not to comment on...

Hmm...wonder how the author feels about abortion? She's so subtle and vague...

This book is nearly unreadable because I hate Zhara just so damn much. But I will power through because it's short and won't be too much more torture.

Everything with Elysia in the last book flowed naturally. Everything with Zhara feels forced. She's supposed to be rebellious and unlikable, but she really doesn't come across that way.

Oh that is fantastic foreshadowing. I love it!

1989. There it is! I knew with a predominantly non-heterosexual MC he would have to confront aids at some point. Let's see what he does...

They are just so damn cute! Seriously, Alex and Magnus are a squee-worthy couple at all times, but seeing the inception of their relationship? Adorable.

Nope. Not aids. I was wrong. Sad, because how HIV affects vampires would be intriguing.

In the late 70s, vampires (who consume blood) start wasting away from illness? Not a far stretch of the mind to make THAT connection...

Nice handling of the window jumpers from the stock market crash. There was never a documented account of that actually happening, and it's presented here in a way that could be rumor or truth. Very well done.