God that took forever. Okay so here's the thing. I've gotten so used to at least having heard of the characters in previous books I was thrown off by these two unknowns. Add in the fact that even after reading comments here about how Thorn is in it I could not for the life of me remember who Thorn was. Still not sure so I'll have to go back and reread or in the case of the last Nick book, read for the first time. I say all this to say that this book didn't really pick up for me until halfway through. I was confused 90% of the time between characters I don't know but probably should, the mixing of different cultural mythologies some of which I know nothing about, the fact that part of the plot included characters with multiple identities and some characters lying and hiding who they were form others. I honestly didn't hate this book but I'm not sure how good it was. I'm just going to have to come back and read this one again. I'm left with way too many questions about pretty much everything. I want to say more but I feel unqualified even though I literally finished the book an hour ago.

That was a sad ending. Mostly because there's no "bad guy" getting what he deserves. It is realistic though. I'm personally annoyed at Nashville Jones and that doctors privilege though. They didn't know the brother had already killed 12 other, girls but they only thought about saving the person they know and not considering the effects on the one girl they did know about. And because of that for fifteen years those other girls deaths went unnoticed. Overall this book was more interesting then the last. Not too happy about Nadine making another book since it sounds like we'll be stuck with that case cropping all the time like the icove case.

Wow, I had not realized that its been five years since the last Merry book. I did plan on rereading the older books before getting and reading this one but that never happened and I'll admit that I was lost on a few plot points that I think happened in the past. But this was boring for the most part.

Honestly, at the end of this book I felt like I had only read a summary or a preview of the actual book. Nothing much happens. Well not really, a major character dies, babies get born, Andais starts to make some personality changes and the King loses his crown but I feel like this was all glossed over. The guys are not so interesting and I am still scratching my head over how each baby has multiple biological fathers. Granted that last has not been proven yet but I just want it explained to me. I understand this is fiction and can suspend reality but come on.

I read another review that said the entire book took place in a week's time. But nothing really happened. This felt like a prologue. Hopefully, the next book will be better. There were some promising plot lines that were started but left dangling here. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait at least two years since it seems LKH is already working on the next Anita book. It wasn't all bad (or even mostly to me) its just that the good parts were left unfinished if you will, leaving the reader feeling like you didn't get much.