** spoiler alert ** 
 I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I was going to. There's a lot of books in this series so I went into this being a little critical since I didn't know if I wanted to commit to the whole thing. I like that the ending of this book wrapped up pretty much everything that happened, but left things open to explore in other books. I think Yassen is going to be a very interesting character. He killed Alex's uncle, so obviously he should be a villian. But he had the opportunity to kill Alex, and instead offered up some fatherly advice to leave the killing to the adults. I'm looking forward to finding out more about his character.