I like the first boook but one would be terribly disappointed if she'd expect more on the romance part of the story. Risa is simply too frustrating to be a sex-crazed Mary Sue. But the reason for the rating was that the overall story that was too slow to carry on and only several events that revolved around it which made the book quite a pain to finish since all story progression was building up to the next book. Since the next book will be out in a month so I will not give up on this since I like Azriel and luckily Lucian is getting slimier by the moment so I don't really think its necessary to be all fandoming the Aedh.