** spoiler alert ** 
 Maggie's writing, as always, was impeccable, with moments of absolute brilliance and the usual sprinkling of awesomely clever metaphors. I felt a little distanced from the characters this time, I don't know if the multiple POVs diluted everything for me, or whether it has simply been too long/too many other reads since I devoured Shiver and Linger. I didn't feel like there was the same intensity for Sam and Grace (eg when she wakes up and she has the most pointless and wtf conversaton with Cole before going to see the love of her life who she has been cruelly separated from for many months....) Overall it was an Ok read that did have me engrossed regardless of what I thought of how the plot was progressing. The action at the end was well done though a little formulaic in the way all the loose ends were tidied up (or not - resolution with parents = lie about going overseas...sorry but totally lame and felt like an afterthought) For what (for me anyway) was meant to be the climatic resolution of 2 lovers forced apart by circumstances beyond their control there seemed to be a lot of other "stuff" - like the conflict with Shelby and all of Beck's 'secrets'. I feel strangely guilty that I didn't enjoy this as much as the other two, but then, such is the way with endings sometimes. I don't regret buying but it lacked the magic something that would make this one of my favs.