Couldn’t get past betrayal.
It’s an interesting story and I enjoyed the rest of the series, but I barely made it through this. I can’t say what the issue is without spoilers, but in general terms, we are expected to overlook a familial double-crosser evil creep and then accept the betrayer into the story as an additional love interest. No. It didn’t work for me, and I am alright with a whole lot of weird.
I would have been fine if the creep met a grisly end in extreme and worrisome detail, as bad guys do in other parts of the series. I would have welcomed that. I wish someone had written an alternate universe for this, in which we are not asked to accept that particular character.
It’s too bad. The other books are worth a re-read, but this one makes me see red. I can’t even skip the parts with the creep in it to enjoy the rest of the plot a second time. It’s a fairly tame thing to finally yuck my yum, but this did it.