Took me almost a year from when I started to finish. I do not have many complimentary things to say about the book. The one good thing I have to say is that Ms Estep has this magic ability that make me want to continue the story because I've caught a glimpse of a fascinating plot and fascinating characters. For now, though, it all seems like a mirage. 
 The writing......is not good writing. This no-personal-pronouns thing baffles and annoys me greatly. Who speaks like this: 
 "My mother, Eira, was killed years ago...oh look, this trinket belonged to my mother, Eira." 
 "Mab Monroe is the Fire Elemental who killed my family. Mab turned a corner over there. The Fire Elemental probably just went to intimidate someone." 
 "Oh Finn, my best friend and foster brother is being pummeled by a giant. Oh noes! At this rate the giant will kill my foster brother!" 
 "Oh Roslyn and Xavier just walked into the bar. The vampire and the giant sat in a booth." 
 EVERY. SENTENCE. Everytime Roslyn is mentioned, the next sentence refers to her as "the vamp." When a giant is mentioned, the next sentence refers to him as "the giant." Mab Monroe: "the Fire Elemental." Her mother: Eira. 
 No personal pronouns. Instead....this! 
 It is bad writing. Plain and simple. And for me, greatly grates on my nerves and takes me out of continuity with the story. So yes, just about every other sentences disrupts my flow when I am reading. 
 Why does this woman and this series have editors? Shoddy work. No, it's not a stylistic quirk; it's just bad writing. 
 The story....is not all that compelling. There wasn't much to enjoy. Gin is becoming a mini-Harry Dresden, cultivating a god-complex, so that everything that happens is her almighty fault. Nah. It's it's true that the driving force of the plot - Roslyn's predicament - ties back to Gin, but it wasn't Gin's sole doing. Ugh. God-complexes are a fail, precisely because we aren't God. Smh. 
 What else - I swear I wanted everyone to get killed by the bad guys because they exhibited stupid behaviors. Again, while I understand that when afraid, we panic and do foolish things, I also expect people who live with such danger and threats to be sensible. You don't live long amid the fraught city Ms. Estep has created by being impulsive and stupid. WHY did Roslyn run away? No reason. None whatsoever. So she's surprised when Gin comes for her "after what she did." Quite frankly, I'm surprised too. Surprised she came for you, and surprised you've lived so long since all you apparently know how to do is exhibit colossal stupidity. 
 I was a very frustrated reader. Unfortunately I do own quite a number of the books in this series, and so shall read on. Pray for my sanity.