Another book that ends with me thinking "Thank God it's over."

Annoying is pretty much the only way I can think to describe this book and everything about it. The characters are annoying. The conflict is annoying. The romance is annoying. EVERYTHING IS ANNOYING. I have never met a more obnoxious heroine than Abrielle, if heroine is what she could be called. There aren't enough characters allowed in this review to describe every bone-headed, hot-and-cold, back-and-forth, mixed signal nonsense featured in this novel. If I'd been responsible for writing this, it would have been a very short tale indeed because I'm barely halfway through the book before getting stuck on the repetitive thought of "Geez, Raven, just leave her alone." I could find no connection or sympathy for any of the characters featured, all of them prompting me to roll my eyes at one point or another. The only romance I found even the smallest inkling of interest in was that between Cedric and Cordelia- and even that I eventually found to be a contrived and awkward subplot inserted forcefully at the most random of occasions for... some purpose that I cannot even construe.

Long story short: would not recommend. Ever. Ugh.