"Death is forever. Death is nothing. But to save a life, that's everything." 
 But unfortunately deep down everything is politics and diplomacy... 
 *	Kate has to behave appropriately in front of the Pack. 
 *	Kate has to behave and talk correctly in front of the Pack council. 
 *	The Pack needs to be reserved with Curran (although not really too reserved with his consort). 
 *	The Pack members have to respect hierarchy and follow Alpha's decisions even if they are stupid. 
 * The Pack council needs to have a certain attitude with the People council. 
 *	Pack has to behave in a certain way in front of the People. 
 *	Everybody have to be careful in front of the witches. 
 *	The police have to respect the Pack. The Pack has to respect police's decisions. 
 *	Everybody needs to respect Roland. 
 And nobody has a high opinion of Kate, until she is showing her powers. 
 Sometimes I wished that Kate had just embraced Hugh's proposal and just smashed everyone down to the ground. 
 Hugh is such a bad boy in this book. 
 He is definitely fascinated with Kate. But at the same time he is so manipulative so that you are not really sure if he wants to sleep with Kate because he has feelings for her OR because he just wants to prove that he is the best and she is just a trophy he needs to win and take her away from Curran. 
 "I meant what I told you before. Their lives don't matter to me. If I have to crush the coal to get to the diamond, I'll do it." 
 "Aha. And I'm the diamond?" 
 "You cut like one." 
 "Flattery, really? Subtle like a hammer." 
 "Long term, I want to win. And I will win, Kate. You'll put a good fight, but eventually you'll be sleeping in my bed and fighting with me back to back. We'll be good together. I promise you." 
 I don't know if my problem is that I like bad boys, but I find this possibility FASCINATING. 
 Maybe, because Kate and Hugh are really the two sides of the same coin. Kate's light counterbalance the darkness in Hugh. 
 And I have to admit that although Hugh left her almost to die in this book; he keeps saving her friends just to prove his point. This is kind of sweet. 
 Of course Hugh plays much dirtier now. He has tested Kate's limitations in Magic Rises and now he knows where to strike. So he keeps pushing Kate's kindness and her love for her friends and her people. 
 By the way, I really cannot understand how come Kate is so nice. Her father is a ruthless psycho killer, her mother was a manipulative witch. Kate is just nice and fair and somewhat innocent. 
 She is doing what she is doing, she is violent because she has no other choice: 
 "This is my city. These are my people. 
 HESAAD. MINE." 
 Woah!!! Just for this scene where she shows that she is daddy's little girl. 
 You may notice that I did not comment on Curran. 
 I was rather disappointed with him in this book. And he definitely did not make an impression. 
 The end of the book finds Kate bigger and better, more powerful, with a better weapon, with the chance of a family life and with more responsibilities unfortunately which could not be avoided. 
 Oh, yes... she has also a daddy now.