I finished! Fiery Cross (Book 5) felt like a really lovely, well-written piece of fanfiction. I loved it, but I also found myself going, wait, what about the time traveling? What does it all MEAN?! Why am I constantly being bombarded with milky, leaky, lactating breasts?! There is LOTS of sexy time in this one, never a problem for me, and I enjoyed the parts with the Regulators and the militia, the constant medical interventions grew a bit tiresome and the overall lack of a central plot made me grow a bit tired at times.

I've heard through the rumor mill that A Breath of Snow and Ashes, the next in the series, will be worth every minute I've spent reading this one, but I'm going to take a wee break before starting it. I'm getting too close to not having any more to read!

Overall, a good addition to the universe, I'm just glad I'm not reading it without having the next book readily available.

Spoilers ahead for the rest of this review.

Spoiler

**Brianna is a breast feeding machine. I felt sad she was relegated to mostly mommy mode for this entire book, but she had some great moments teaching Roger to shoot, spending time with Jamie, and writing out her odd dreams.
**Bonnet - I don't CARE about you. Fuck you, you stupid rapist. I'm glad they shot your balls off, though I fear you will be back again.
**We get more indication that gemstones are significant, that the skull with silver fillings was a Native American man from 1968 who came back (to not early enough in time) to try and stop the tribes from crumbling under white settlement...interesting MORE PLEASE.
**Jemmy can time travel, but we don't yet know his paternity.
**Jocasta is a wily old lady, and there be gold in that tomb! French gold!
**Jamie, you've been mauled by a bear, a panther, and now survived a poisonous snake. Jeeez.
**I don't know if I believe all of the medical "miracles" that Claire has wrought, but they do make for interesting reading. Will someone please go back to the future and get some more penicillin? I can't believe she didn't bring a lot more with her, or a needle (or 100). Making a needle out of a cobra fang, really!?
**Ian is BAAACK, and so is Rollo!
**Stupid Laoghire. I hate you.
**Why did I have to wait to the last 100 pages to learn most of this information?