I have many, many thoughts on this book and all of them are angry.
Here are my basic thoughts upon finishing the book:
- If I were in a magic dragon military school, I'd side with Jack Barlowe because Violet Sorrengail is annoying enough to want to murder
- If I took a shot every time Violet mentioned how tiny, fragile or "intelligent" (she says this all the time, but I don't think she ever really backed it up) I would be dead of alcohol poisoning before I even reached 50%
- Not to be a Dain apologist,

Spoiler

but if my childhood best friend ran off with some moody, rebel guy and they started being all secretive, I would probably not be happy about it either

- All of these characters were sooooooo desperate to baby-make for literally no reason whatsoever
- I threw up in my mouth and I also cried over the book ... so good feelings all around, am I right? (No.)
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Spoiler

The only decent character - Liam - died and I 110% blame Violet and Xaden for it and no I will never forgive them.

- The only scene I actually kind of liked was the final fight scene
- Violet is just Mare Barrow but more "pick me" and Xaden is just ctrl+v any dark haired, moody, "feminist" love interest
- The "cliffhanger" that everyone keeps talking about I found to be very predictable ...

Spoiler

I literally called it the second they mentioned that Brennan died

Anyway, will I read the next book? Probably.
But be warned that I will complain about it even more than I did about this one.
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