As always with the Black Jewels series I was gripped, and for the first half of the book I was enjoying it a fair bit. Events in the second half however made me angry to read, with a stroppy, naive and manipulated teenager who never truly intended to hurt anyone, treated by everyone as if they were a villain.  The fictional universe in this series has always been brutal with a very different morality to real life, but this was frankly a step too far for me.