It was a good book, but not great. 
 I think i was expecting more of this book after so much time waiting for it. Maybe i am being to critical about it :D. 
 I found that it was lacking in adventure, suspense and events, unlike the previous books. it felt like a connection book for the sequel. 
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 Half of the book was introducing the characters, which frankly i think it's unnecessary to say all the history from book 1 that kate had with that particular character. 
 The reason could be for the ppl who haven't read all the books. i think just stating the previous encounter with that person, for example Saiman they could just say about him making jealous the Beast lord and so they are in bad relations, but now it's unnecessary to write everything. IF ppl want to know more, they can just go read the prior books. I felt really annoyed about this so it kinda dropped a star for me. 
 Also the new chars were kinda left in the dark, maybe in the next book we'll have more details about them. 
 Otherwise the plot was good, didn't see Hugh coming into picture before it had, which was the purpose i think. 
 I liked the sword fight between her and Hugh, i was totally seeing the scene in my mind. 
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