I loved the other books. this one I didn't care for all that much. I found the story line contrived. as if the original menace wasn't sufficient now we have a second megalomaniac out to destroy humans...one who is a sadistic sociopath torturing women to turn them into soulless killers. we also find our heroes, many of them, are bigots against a minority of their own people. No, I didn't like this story line at all.