This series keeps getting better with each installment and I would have to say that Curse the Dawn, at this point, is the best. I don't know if Chance's vision of the world is clearer than when the series started or if I'm just used to the time traveling, magic weilding people now. 
 Curse the Dawn picks up not long after the end of Embrace the Night when we learned that Apollo is not as good and helpful as we thought he was. I would have liked to have seen more attention paid to that conflict personally. In this book Apollo is kind of the bad guy looming in the background and Cassie has too many other things (and people) trying to kill her to pay attention to Apollo until the very, very end of the book. I just think he was set up, but maybe not used to his full potential. 
 This book closes out a lot of storylines that have been in the works since the beginning. Apollo was pulling the strings on Myra, the Pythia heir, in the beginning and ultimately behind a lot of the attacks on Cassie. The animosity from the Silver Circle will hopefully be under control with the next book after events in this book. So really this book is like the end of one arc. 
 Don't get me wrong though, there are plenty of new things discovered which I hope will be figured out in books to come. Probably the most notable being the information we learn about Cassie's parents. Of course they were killed when she was four. Since the book ois told from Cassie's POV there's not much we, the readers, know about little about them because Cassie herslef knows little about them, until this book that is. We learn some questionable things and I'm really interested to see where this information takes us as far as how it may effect Cassie's powers. 
 I will say that one thing I hope that Chance does get around to is for Cassie to actually figure out how she feels. And I'm talking about the men in her life. Basically Pritkin and Mircea. While I know who I personally prefer for Cassie, when I read the book it seems like whenever her thoughts stray to how seh feels for each of them she pushes it away for a later that never comes. She has all these reservations about Mircea yet she doesn't every speak them to him. She does come close in the end of this book, but no where near where I want her to be. Same thing on the other hand with Pritkin. Their scenes together are my favorite. They play off of each other very well, and Chance writes the chemistry between them very well. But neither Cassie nor Pritkin will acknowledge it. Again, hopefully something that will be taken care of soon instead of just sitting there until the readers are tired of it. 
 Overall, this is a series that I would highly recommend. If you are having problems with the first couple, keep going. They get so much better. I'm really looking forward to finding out what happens next. Unitl Then!