Full review can also be found on: Paein and Ms4Tune's Book Blog 
 While this book covers important issues like rape (it's not the victims fault) and contains scenes of torture that some may find upsetting, I got quite annoyed with it. The break in took forever to happen and it seemed like silly stupid things got in the way. Much of the after made sense, but it just was so drawn out. Perhaps because we were covering the same time twice from two points of view. There just seemed a lot of running around - or not running around, depending on the POV. 
 I also think that Adrian was being a little silly in NOT announcing the whys of his panic or contacting everyone he knew with connections...I was also disappointed at the lack of fireballs and so on earlier on and annoyed at the depth of the alchemist knowledge. I did enjoy the running around Vegas and their return, that was pretty entertaining however. But that last situation there, that's obvious whose done that. Something pretty massive must be going to go on to resolve all this, there's only one book left. I'm not completely convinced I care too much anymore, but one thing is for sure. The next book will make or break this series.