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Reader reviewed by Jessica

While listed as the third book of the Wicked Lovely series, this is the second book to focus on these characters specifically. It was a major disappointment for the series. Nearly the entire book was about the love triangle, quadrangle, or what not. I dont read fantasy genre books and expect them to be entirely romance, some romance, yes, but this was too much. There was so much whining from all four characters that are involved in this love equation that it was unbearable. I wanted to hurry through this book so I could be done with it and not have to sit through all of the oh I cant be with this person because of this person, this person cant be with me because of who I am crap.

The only thing that saved this book was when about halfway through we encounter a change in Seth when he is in Faerie. Finally we get some characters that arent as whiny, but unfortunately there wasnt much depth to them either. I wanted more from Bananach, or War, and to see some action actually take place. Instead we went from one basic storyline the entire way through with nothing eventful taking place. Ok, there was one eventful moment, but it was written so boringly, that you nearly missed it and you certainly didnt get to experience it with the character since it happened towards the end of the book.

Marr left the ending open which will hopefully lead to a more eventful story for the next in the sequel, Radiant Shadows (due out April 20, 2010). This book could have been added as an epilogue to one of the others as it was just filler. It was missing all of the wonderful focus on characters that she covered in the first two books of this fantasy realm, Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange.