*** SPOILERS ALERT!! ***
I was very pleased with this book. In the past 4 books for the
House of Night series, P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast spend a lot of
time explaining everyone and everything. By the sixth book, we know
where everyone goes to school, we know the characters, we know
Kalona and what he's done, so there's no need to get into it
again.
However, more than half of the book was spent with the House of
Night kids plotting what to do with Kalona and then … nothing
happened! I expected some kind of battle between Zoey and Kalona
and Neferet, but instead, a character was killed off and the Casts
left us hanging until the next book, Burning, comes out.
I was surprised to see what happened between Stevie Rae and
Rephaim. I was torn between whether or not it was her humanity that
wanted to save him, or whether or not there's still evil in her
bones, which is why she didn't want to kill him. The imprint was
unexpected, but I'm curious to see what will happen in the next
book between the two.
One thing that is really getting to me is the word usage … we've
heard "bullpoopie" enough and the phrase "ah, hell" was used more
times than necessary. If there will be other swearing in the book,
it seems childish to have words like "bullpoopie" seem to be taken
seriously. Maybe it's just me.
In the end, we were left hanging with multiple story lines and
nothing really happened in the book. It was a good, quick read, but
it would have been nice to have at least one resolution.