Scarlett M. (the-red-dame) reviewed on 3/24/2014 + 31 more book reviews

Warning: Review might be considered vaguely spoiler-y.

This is one of those stories I felt that I shouldve liked, but didnt. The plot needed some editing it reached the part I felt shouldve been the exciting climax and then kept going, building to the level of absurdity and then the characters killed it.

I liked Safia for all of about one page after she was introduced, after which my opinion of her started to wane. After a chapter of her, I was sincerely hoping shed get killed off, so I was very disappointed to learn that not only would she not get killed off, but that she was crucial to the story. All of the characters make observations about how strong Safia is, which is interesting, since I never saw Safia being strong. In fact, if it wasnt for the other characters beating me over the head with how strong and admirable Safia was, I wouldve pegged her as being kinda pathetic, seeing as how she kept having panic attacks and angsting over her not-so-terrible terrible past. Ugh.

I kinda liked Painter Crowe, up until his infatuation with Safia, at which point I started to lose some respect for him. Then later in the book there was some terrible line about how Safias wonderful, womanly vulnerability called out the man in him and I very nearly stopped reading.

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