Fourth in a series.

Definitely in my top five current fantasy series (along with the Patricia Briggs’Mercy Thompson books and the almost-completed Robert Jordan Wheel of Time books…I’d have have to walk to a different room to look at a different bookshelf to pin down the rest…).

This has a lot of the good stuff of the previous three books, as well as widening the list of characters I cared about, filling in some of the folks who were broader strokes in books past (Shamus in particular). There continues to be a LOT about blood magic that we don’t really know its longlasting effects. Lots of great fighting (magic and otherwise). And a freakalicious ending that is NOT going to keep me patient until the next one comes out in November (YAY SO SOON!).

Allie and Zayvion continue to have a sexy yet more than that relationship. The imagery describing Zayvion in a certain fight at a certain point in this book…is just so so cool. And I do dearly love Stone. (FYI you can knit your own Stone should you wish to. Although in the books he is a LOT BIGGER than that.)