Rachel Aaron continues to reign supreme amongst all other authors for me. Her plot twists are earned, her characters are real, and anything can be overcome with some hope and a truckload of stubbornness. The epilogue was just the right amount of showing the future and leaving events up to the reader's imagination. The Heartstriker series had me feeling like I was a teenager again - eager for the teacher (now my work) to stop so I could find our what happened next. The culmination of Julius's story was everything I could have hoped for.