I've finally decided it's time to start this series - it's been on my radar for almost four years now, but I kept putting it off. I love assassins, especially kick-ass, female assassins. Unfortunately, so many of them are written badly; they're just not the strong, capable, brilliant women I want them to be. 
 I'm not entirely sure, yet, that Caleana is all those things, but she's definitely got potential. She's brash and cocky, capable and intelligent, and she's got her own moral code - I like all of that. I'm hoping that most of the point of these short stories (prequels to the first book) are to show us quite a lot of growth in Caleana. I'd like to see her evolution. 
 If I have one complaint about this short, it's that I spent a lot of it trying to get a feel for the characters. There's one moment in the beginning that makes me think Caleana doesn't even like, or respect, Sam, but then their interactions throughout the story tell a different tale. There are several other characters that I'm left unsure how to feel about. I'm forming opinions, but I'm trying to maintain an open-mind, too. Because in a world of assassins, things are never black-and-white.