While this book wasn't perfect- I can point out some definite flaws to the novel- this was such an enjoyable book that you really and truthfully won't care. It's such an amazing ride from start to finish and culminates the trilogy as a whole. 
 What I think worked the best here is that we're finally seeing Nastasya open up to others. She's just starting to say "yes" to Rayne, to the idea of what River's community really means to her, and to the possibility that maybe, just maybe, she's not eternally tainted by her family history and her own past actions. It gives her a nice sense of vulnerability and fragility, which of course is put into constant threat by the arrival of River's brothers. They don't think she's trustworthy or truthful at all, which really pushes her to her "flight or flight" response. 
 There isn't really a lot of battle in this book when you get down to it, but then this series hasn't really ever been about that. Yes, it happens, but the action here mostly centers around Nastasya realizing that she can do better with herself and that even more importantly, she deserves to have a better life than the one she had with Incy. Everything else is sort of a stepping stone to that. I think this aspect is what makes some of the more tragic things in her life that much more tragic, such as her losing her son Bear way earlier on in her life. Of course putting the focus on this does sort of make the action scenes feel a little shorter than they otherwise could be. I think that drawing out the action scenes would have run the risk of making parts of it drag, but it would've been a little better to develop the supporting villains a little more. 
 Overall, this really was a great book and offhand I can say that I'll probably re-read this trilogy at some point in the future. Tiernan is a great author and the thing about her writing is that she makes it so enticing that most of us will leave this book wanting to come back and visit the characters once again.