Stars: 2.5 out of 5

I think I am officially done with this series. This last book felt like a chore to finish, which is never good in a genre that is supposed to be my comfort food.

Don’t get me wrong, I still like Jane and her Beast, and the two Younger brothers are pretty good people to read about. I’m glad that Jane finally admitted to herself and others that they are found family, and even decided to make it official. It’s everything else in the books that is failing to keep my interest.

I do not care about vampire politics and who is feeding/f*&king/in a relationship with whom, or who hates whose guts at the moment. Neither of those stances is self-excluding, either. And I don’t like Leo. He is just not an interesting character to me, so all this sometimes antagonistic, sometimes almost sexual tension between him and Jane gives me major eek.

Speaking of eek, Jane repeatedly states that Eli and Alex are like brothers to her, but then there are moments when she openly flirts with Eli. No. Just… no.

Most of the relationships in this book are very screwed up, especially when it comes to Jane and other women. Case in point – Molly. Jane states that she is her best friend in the world, yet I don’t see that in this book. After the first summoning disaster, when Molly almost turns to the dark side, Jane has to knock her out. You would think that two best friends would talk about that, wouldn’t you? Nope. No “hey, you tried to kill us, how do you feel right now?” or “Hey, I’m sorry I almost turned into a blood witch and murdered you all.” Just silence and keep on keeping on. Then, during the second summoning, Jane treats her like the enemy and even tells Eli to shoot her if needed. Then we are back to being all friends at the end of the book.

Also, I felt like this book dragged. Jane kept spinning her wheels for 80% of the book, then all of a sudden she comes to conclusions seemingly out of the blue and the book steamrolls into the final battle. At some points in the story, I had to go back to re-read passages because I really felt like I missed some crucial clue, because I didn’t understand how Jane came to the conclusions she came to.

So in summary, this was a fun series for a while, but it got repetitive, and there isn’t enough story here for me to keep going.