This book started slow for me and took a while to get into the main plot again, but it was a wild, heart-wrenching ride. Laia and Helene have excellent arcs, and I loved spending more time with these characters.

Elias, though…

I wanted to smack him on the upside of the head a few times at the beginning of the book. Dude is forced into a supernatural job that is very, VERY explicit in its requirements, and he is somehow surprised when failing to meet said requirements results in the mos...