** spoiler alert ** 
 Yeah I'm totally hiding this review for spoilers, so be warned. 
 The beginning of the book was intriguing, and the plot summary was enough to keep me going for a bit, but it's definitely in the last 2/3rds of the book where it really picks up with the intrigue and puzzle pieces that I found it hard to put down. So overall I really liked the book and kept wanting to see everything unravel....and then they went there with the main character having magical sex powers...that was one of the weirdest deus ex machinas that I've seen/read. I really wanted to know more about what was going on with the convent and why they didn't seem to be getting all the messages. I thought Crunard was intercepting the crow but it was never really presented as an option. And mostly I want to know what's up with Annith.... Since I saw that the blurb for the next book is about Sybella (which is totally cool), I wonder if the last book will be about Annith. I hope the characters from the first book still make appearances in the next few.