Frost has created one of my 2 all-time top heroes. The only person who can compete with Bones is Karen Chance's Mircea Basarab. Cat is a charming heroine (even if she can't quite compete with Bones -- but then who could?). Cat's mother is a great character that you love to hate, though throughout the series Frost generally avoids one-dimensional caricature villains. But this book has an awful cliffhanger so don't read it unless you have the second in the series lined up (which is just as good as the first book).