Why the hell is this $12.99 on kindle? 
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 The Actual Review 
 4.5 stars, rounded down. 
 O_O!!!! If I hadn't been spoiled silly before reading this book, I would have been pissed beyond belief at the ending. I would have emailed amazon to demand the extortionate price I paid for the kindle version back! I didn't appreciate it one single bit. 
 We're back in Merit's Chicago, where every single vampire or shifter male is ridiculously handsome and the women are supermodel gorgeous, and where just about every one of these immensely gorgeous males who are not attached fancy Merit or are on their way to fancying her, grudgingly or non-grudgingly as the case may be. Something is causing vampires to go crazy, Merit's house and Master are being implicated, and so as ever-faithful Sentinel of Cadogan House, she has to get to the bottom of the issue before everything goes to hell in a handbasket. 
 The plotting of this series is slower than many of the series I love, but it is a 'meaty slow', not a 'filler' slow, so that is good. Everywhere that Merit goes, we get to see her in action and we get to find a little piece of the puzzle: sometimes the puzzle is the mystery, and others it is Merit herself, with her hopes, dreams, fears, thoughts. Although her thoughts make me want to smack her sometimes. But yeah, awesome narrative. On to the interesting bits: the characters! 
 Ethan: For me, he has really grown as a character, and I am deeply appreciative of the man Chloe Neill has created. He is handsome, powerful, alpha, etc, but he is also a man who can make astoundingly stupid decisions. He is a man who knows how to grovel properly (handy thing for someone who can be so stupid sometimes), and he is a man who has come to understand what love is. At least, his definition of love appeals to me much more than a lot of the emo love going on in the genre. It is sober, reflective, and runs just as deep. And I love, love, his old fashioned sense of honor. 
 All the other men: Are rat bastids, for all their beautifulness. Well, Gabe we don't know anything about, Catcher is an idiot because he likes that Mallory girl, and Morgan and Tate you could smell were douchebags the moment they stepped on screen. I'll take Ethan, thank you very much. Jonah (is that his name? The RG partner guy?, I don't like. He is snooty). 
 Merit: has stagnated for me a bit. I still like her and enjoy her company, but I am losing the sense of growth that came when I contrasted the Merit from the first book with the one from the second book. 
 Since I have forgotten what else I was going to write, let's just skip over to the conclusion. 
 But for the ending this would have been five stars, I think. That was just a no-no. Based on the spoilers I was fed (New_User, I am looking at you), I am curious as to how Ms. Neill manages to resolve this whole situation. I am not sure it can be done, so I am curious. NU, if it is not satisfactory, I am coming after you! You are the one who started me on this path!! 
 It's a really good thing I have book sis her next to me waiting to be read.