I don't care about the kids. I don't care about Kyo. But what I DO care about is sticking with a theme. If you're going to focus all of your time on building a strong female character, to the point of her being annoying, and forget that this is a heavily ROMANCE-themes novel, then it's not worth my time. I feel like the fans of Mead who want to support wonderful romance novels got shafted. This was a young-adult-esque slap in the face. The plot was anticlimactic, as was the one sex scene.