this entire series is just fucking baffling to me. like there was so much potential and 90% of it was completely wasted. 
 anyway this was definitely the best thing to happen in this series since vol 2 of evenfall. i can't stop laughing at the fact that the first legitimately interesting plot we've had since then started immediately after boyd being kidnapped. since this series is 75% him whining and 25% anything remotely interesting happening. 
 so yeah, a good little plot in the later third of the book, at least three e/z sex scenes, emilio being unable to hide all these embarrassing feelings he has - all in all this was a pretty decent end to the series, although i'm still completely baffled by the overall [lack of] plot structure and characterization in this series as a whole. like why didn't this shit happen at least a whole book ago and then we could have dealt more with the aftermath? whatever.