I'll be straight up with you: Iris is not Jane. She has some similarities to her, but this is not Jane. I'm saying this because I know that some of us will be going into this hoping to read a voice very similar to Jane. I didn't realize it until about halfway through, but I was kind of one of those people. 
 The good is that I do like Iris. I'd never really thought of her as anything other than an uber-efficient vampire concierge. This book teases out more of her character and I'm glad about that. Iris is a pretty interesting girl, although I'll admit that I'm rather glad that her sister Gigi was such a prominent character in the book. I'll openly concede that I liked Gigi more than her sister, but then Gigi's a pretty spunky and likable character for the most part. Another good thing to mention is that we get more of those snappy one-liners and random observations that you've come to love from Harper's other work. I'll have to flip through my book to grab one of the lines that I liked the most, but there's some great ones. It also doesn't hurt that Peter Crown is mentioned in this book and is given slightly more screen time than he has in previous books. (I guess I'm one of those people who like cranky anal-retentive vampires?) I can't help but think of him as the Professor Snape of the series, so hopefully we'll get to see more of him as the books progress. 
 The downfall is that at times the book felt a little overly predictable. Nothing major or deal-breaking. It's just that at some points of the book you'll kind of feel that you've read this sort of thing before and that you can pretty much tell how it's going. This is a common fault of the PNR/romance genre as a whole and I'll admit that even with this TCaFoSV is still pretty darn fun. I don't read stuff like this in order to have gasps and shocks on every page, I read it because I want a light and fluffy escapist book to take my mind off of impending tests and whatever else life has to throw at me. 
 Now if you're wondering if you can read this book without having read the others in the series, you can. You'll just feel like you're missing out on a lot of backstory that may or may not otherwise enhance the book for you.