I wanted to like this book so much more than I did, but it was so flat. The tension between Baird and Olivia was flat and the resolution forced, and for a warrior race there was very little fighting. 
 There were so many missed opportunities throughout it. There wasn't enough intrigue in their relationship to make it worth while. There wasn't enough about the alien world to make it interesting or enough fighting to make it move faster. 
 That being said, I'm pretty sure I'm going to read the second one in the series, because I have hope that she can make the next characters more interesting based on the epilogue.