1st read 4 Feb 2013 - 5 Feb 2013 
 2nd read 8 Jan 2015 - 9 Jan 2015 
 Upon reread, I am gonna add one more star and bring my rating to **** 
 And again, Donovan Caine and Ms. Estep's bizarre desire to paint him as a good man, as a man of high ideals and morals, puzzles and upsets me. I don't understand how someone whose job is words can get their meaning so wrong (see old review for what I mean). 
 As well upon reread, I noticed something: apart from an couple of 'stands' (30-minute? Because they sure weren't '1-night!'), Donovan Caine and Gin had very little between them. So I am very confused when Gin is talking about feeling broken hearted about a burgeoning relationship that his 'morals' wouldn't let be. Nah bruh. There was nothing there. 
 Donovan Caine has very little to recommend him. Very little intelligence, analytic skill, love, or empathy. He's the type of person who've rates people for terrible choices without stopping to consider terrible conditions. You can't tell him you shot your abusive husband on the shoulder to incapacitate him because it was either that or he'd beat you and the kids to death; in his book, he can't possibly believe people will be that evil (even though you're standing there with bruises on your face), so you're the monster who hurt an innocent man. He's the type of person who wouldn't have believed the 10 up girls if they'd come forward and said his former partner had raped them because he can't believe his partner would do such a heinous thing. He doesn't side with victims. And he's a cop. 
 How you gonna try to paint this fool of life as a "good man? No. Didn't buy it first time around and utterly nonplussed second time around. Ms Estep reaaaaally tried it. He's also a coward who can't show compassion, as evinced by the mine scene. Even if Gin was a normal, upstanding citizen, Donovan Caine would be a terrible choice of partner - for any woman! He's a horrible human being. 
 The only explanation for this whole nonsense and non-existent spark/promise of future that Gin concocted in her head is that she was lonely, and not in a good mental state since Fletcher died. You make choices you never would in hose two conditions. Even so, not being in your right mind doesn't make you stupid. Gin spends a lot of time telling us how she's retired, not stupid. This foolishness proves different. Ms Estep really tried it. And it really bothers me. Ugh!!!! 
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 Okey dokey. 
 This "review" is going to be more of a rant about the idiot that passes for Donovan Caine. He is the reason I am giving this book three stars instead of higher. 
 1. I don't know where Ms. Estep got her definition of ideals and morals from, but Donovan Caine neither has morals, nor is he idealistic. He is judgmental and bigoted is what he is. MORALS are what made Gin kill Cliff Ingles; MORALS are what made Fletcher refuse to ever kill innocent children no matter the cost to himself. See what I mean? Being an idiot who refuses to see the writing on the wall no matter how hugely it is written is NOT having morals. Being judgmental and bigoted and cowardly is NOT having morals. Being such a coward that you sleep with the girl you want of your own free will and then make her feel bad so you can appease your conscience is NOT having morals. In short, Being Donovan Caine is NOT having morals. So please, Ms Estep and editors, get your definitions and connotations straight. 
 2. Apparently neither the author or editors of this series (indeed any of Ms. Estep's series) realize that personal pronouns were invented for a reason, given names even. Why should we have to be told every single page that Mab is a fire elemental? Or that Jo-Jo and Sophia are dwarves? Or that Roslyn is a vampire? Given names. Personal pronouns. These things work wonders. 
 3. Without Donovan and the lack of personal pronouns, it was a wonderful book. Those elements, however, majorly ruined it for me. Womp.