I was eagerly anticipating this book, the 10th in the Morganville Vampire series and it did not disappoint! True it was not the best of the series, but I feel an important part of Claire's story, which I am hoping Caine will bring to conclusion by the 12th book as she has indicated. I was particularly eager to read this installment because some of it was written from Shane's direct, 1st person POV. I love, love, love Shane! And, I especially love Shane and Claire together. Caine obviously knows her characters very well, since she pretty much nailed Shane, for me anyway. It was wonderful to get inside his head to really understand what he was feeling about his life, himself, and especially about Claire. I do wish there was a little bit more of Claire and Shane together in this book, although I completely understand that the point was that they were somewhat separated in this book. 
 At any rate, I recommend this entire series (I really the first 8 in the series back to back, and had to wait for #9 and #10, which was agony,, so here I go having to wait for the next installment, again!).