Holy repetitive vocabulary, Batman! Geneva Lee doesn't seem to have a large vocabulary and she uses a lot of odd expressions while over using it. Does your heat beat in your chest or against your chest? I feel the first is what I would prefer, but Lee chooses the latter. Too me, that sounds like the heart is outside the body, beating against the chest.
And oh, the melodrama! As much as I enjoy the plot and want to know the ending, I find myself tiring of the reoccurring self sabotage and the information withholding that causes 90% of the characters' problems. Followed by the same physical reactions. Cate's stomach is always churning or twisting. She is often crossing her arms over her chest and lifting her chin or there is bile rising in her throat. Lachlan is always grinding his teeth and growling, mostly because he has neglected to provide appropriate advice or has bullied the people he should be recruiting and trusting. Cate's brother Channing is still dumb as a stick and hasn't learned a goddamn thing. As I said, tiresome.
And yet I want to know about Cate and her ring. Is that ring actually related to the extinct fae Terra court? If so, why did she inherit it? Will Lach find some way to elude the Wild Hunt permanently? He did the crime, but can he avoid the punishment? Cliffhanger alert! Once again it ends with one.
I really wish my library had purchased a print copy of this title. Listening to the audio version I couldn't avoid the cheesiness of the writing. I couldn't miss the awful exaggerated descriptions and melodramatic plot. When you're listening, you can't miss the relentless repetition of the same phrases and the characters repeatedly blaming themselves for the same problems. I can ignore the worst of that when I'm reading a paper copy. Now I have to wonder if I will read book three. I'd like to claim that there's no way, but I know myself better than that. If my library buys it, I will likely borrow it out of sheer stubbornness to find out how things end.
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