To be honest, I thought the confrontation that happens in this book wouldn’t happen until the last—or maybe the penultimate—book in the series. So I was refreshingly surprised! For most of this book I had no idea where it was going, and then it went there! And then after that it shook some things up that I didn’t think would ever have the possibility to get shaken up, but I’m glad they did. All of that sounds very vague, but this is a review of the seventh book in a series. It’s either this or spoilers.
Okay, so I really can’t write this without spoilers. Only light ones, though.
So this is the one where Hugh and Co. (so, Roland) finally initiate a confrontation with Kate and the Pack. She spends the entire book running around Atlanta and beyond tracking down killers and trying to find a way to prevent a war between the People and the Pack, all the while dealing with the internal politics of being the Consort.
I found large portions of this book baffling. I couldn’t picture a lot of the scenery in a really important section of the book, and I’m unclear how/why a certain interaction went down. I have also forgotten Roland’s origin story and found myself bemused by his EXTREME power. I did call one that thing that happened, though, because it seemed obvious (and that was SPOILER Kate claiming Atlanta so Roland couldn’t END SPOILERS.) I just didn’t predict the consequences. I liked how all of this tied in to Kate’s character growth as well.
Despite my inability visualize certain scenes, this was a really good installment in the series and I’m intrigued to see where it ends up.
