3 and a half stars. 
 I don't know why, but I have a strong feeling that the author thinks her readers relish the endless rape, humiliation and torture scenes she puts in her books. In truth, maybe I'm naive, but I believe that most of us like the idea that a hero overcomes a harsh life and still manages to stay a decent human being, with a strong capacity for love. Thus, the torture doesn't have to be endless, to be described during 700 pages and more, to last for 10000 years (yeah, right...). 
 What we want to read in a paranormal book is usually a romance, with a beautiful HEA... 
 this book could have been 500 pages shorter, the story we (most people) actually want to read wouldn't have been impaired in the least. 
 That said, I loved Styxx (the character, not the book, too much is too much). I just would have liked the book a lot better if it wouldn't have been so painful to read.