I'm going to have to say this was a major let down in my opinion. I enjoyed it, don't get me wrong. I just felt like a good chunk of the story was drawn out and there was little development in the first 40% of the book. This takes place two weeks after the end of the first book and we pick up with Vika and Pasha grieving over Nikolai in their own ways all while still working for the crown. Pasha is about to be coordinated in a month and Vika is fighting her bond to work for him after the betrayal at the end of the games last book. We get to see more of Nikolai's mother who is a real piece of work and the whole issue the arose when she helped heal him just put a kink in my love for the story. Nikolai's whole personality changed after that and I just couldn't enjoy it.