I like the book but by now I am dead certain that the book shouldn't ended in three parts. Alexei was as distant as ever, Natalie was just as obnoxious as ever. Really, skin tags? I am a virgin too you know and seriously what was with the obsession to deflower the character just because she was 24. Seriously, its not a big deal. I get that its an erotica but one time she and her friend were all, "Go for it. Get laid." but she was all "I want to see the real you and you need to open up to me and I feel like I'm drowning" and they've been fooling around and suddenly when there's an ounce of commitment, she bailed. I really dont understand the first quarter of the book and the story went back to square one at Paris and plot development took a break for some intense but equally distant sexual escapades. Oh please, Kresley Cole, write the next valkyrie romance will you. When the main characters actually have something to do like preventing an apocalypse or save the world and more gore and demonic fight scenes. This book made up like apocalypse was when you're suddenly a mafia boss daughter and people want to kill you and you're falling for your dad's adopted son who became a berserker or pirate king or something.