** spoiler alert ** 
 After enjoying Storm Born, I was looking forward to this book and enjoyed it at first. One of the major issues I had with Storm Born was that after having a one night stand and a few conversations, Eugenie decided she was in love with Kiyo, who seemed to me to be nothing but a personality-less, sleazy liar, to the extent that she wanted to die for him. So no, I did not enjoy her relationship with him in this book. 
 However, the thing that ruined it for me was Eugenie's abduction in which she was repeatedly raped. Rape is a difficult event to write, and in this case I found it was neither handled sensitively, nor was included for any valid reason. The rape is used as a plot device to give her a reason to want to break up with Kiyo and run to Dorian instead. Apparently she would die for Kiyo, but then leaves him because he doesn't instantly kill her rapist. But it's not like this is because the rape with such a horrible, life-changing experience, because the rape has absolutely no lasting effects on Eugenie, and she's able to jump straight into bed with Dorian. 
 I could have liked the book a lot more if Eugenie was, say, beaten up instead of raped. I don't think rape should ever be used unnecessarily as a plot device, when other events would suffice.