Okay, this book is the reason that I had to wait until today to review book #2. I was too busy reading. I can't even. This book, hot freaking damn. The difference between #2 and #3 was HUGE. I really felt like Ms. Ward let the bottom drop out and held back not one inch. The cover should be different. Or made out of cast iron balls and tissues. It was like she took off her giant testicles and bought them a plane ride into the sky and those testicles jumped out and made parachutes of awesome until they navigated the world and landed firmly back onto Ms. Ward's body. 
 Speaking of balls, when she refers to them as the "twin weights" I just love it. Every time it makes me giggle a little. 
 Okay and I highlighted this little nugget: "But then he laughed in a nasty crack." And I am such a nimrod I pictured poor Z laughing in a nasty crack. Of a butt. God I'm useless. 
 Anyway, back to this gutsy story. I've never read anything like it in my life. It was a guttural roar from a primal place in our author. She left nothing out she went where few dare to go. And she did it with tremendous class and skill. To be able to deliver this fiction tale in a completely made up world in such a way that your heart just clenches with love and hope? It almost feels like it should be pulled out of the series and set on a pedestal. Now I'm only on #3, I know I will finish the whole thing. I need to know how it all ends. 
 I was seriously just amazed. A big thank you to Ms. Ward for going so very deep.