what ruined this book was how anticlimactic the ending was. seriously, it was too convenient, too easy to be true.
Recap:
Cass was already in the prison for a week and her friend, Emile was about to go on trail so she needed to get out fast. not to mention the bulldog came to interrogate/torture her so that's where she made her move. unfortunately, she was surrounded by the guards until her friends and the dragonets came to the rescue and they all escaped to cass's house.
they discussed about what happened, what they needed to do, blablabla, and then cass and aidan were on a mission to infiltrate bulldog's house to interrogate him. they found out about victor's plan to destroy the alpha council and awaken a very powerful and evil thing for him, and in exchange, the bulldog got some of it. but then the guards came in and there was a battle until cass used her power to blow up the house with wind (she said everyone died but i don't believe the bulldog died) and escaped.
they meet with aethelred to find out about victor's plan, no luck in that. but they saw his second house in transylvania and there was an army of demon there. next, they went to scotland to warn the alpha council themselves. aidan planned to go alone while cass waited nearby. however, the bulldog was still alive (told ya) and knocked aidan out. cass panicked and was about to land but she was knocked out too. yay
but they easily escaped with the hel of amara, who was a metal mage, almost got out as a rat, then an eagle, got captured again, but with the help of del, they managed to teleported back to aidan's hovel. so they failed to get the help of the alpha council and decided to infiltrate victor's stronghold by themselves (emile, claire, and connor came too).
his stronghold was very secured, they tried to came from air but it was impossible, they scouted around the protective dome, there was no entry, until they saw a twinkling light that they first thought as a snow, turned out to be a shadow spirit, decided to help them because they wanted for the 'dark one' (victor?) to be gone.
the shadow spirit showed them an emergency escape far from the castle. they got in, aidan and cass looked for the artifacts while the rest looked for the prisoners with the help of a hound dog until things went awry, of course. but aidan and cass still looked for the artifacts. they found the artifacts, but triggered an alarm so they lost the artifacts and got surrounded by demons instead until again, Del and the dragonets came to the rescue, saving cass, aidan, and 13 hellhounds.
the prisoners that the other rescued were 3 boys and they decided to hand them over to the league of firesouls (along with the hellhounds) for save-keeping. they planned to approach the alpha council again with Aidan who did the talking and in the meantime, cass decided to practice with her sisters accompanying her. in the midst of her practice, they were visited by the blood mage sister. they said that aethelred got a vision and said that cass and friends need to get ahold of whatever victor was seeking before him and it was somewhere near the alpha council's stronghold.
so they went searching for the broch in 3 groups, cass with aidan. on their journey, they met with ceasg, some kind of mermaid with salmon tail. she said they'd face a monster with 4 legs and just used freshwater to defeat it (too easy -.-). and said that they could trust the no legs (ceasg) and four legs (some kind of faun) because they wanted her (the one) to get rid of the darkness.
they indeed met the four leg, cass easily killed it with water, but after some pending in her brain and Aidan almost got killed. but she easily healed him. then they met the bauchan, the faun thingy. the faun took them to the broch (it was a building!) but they could only enter on moonlight.
they found a basement that went on and on until somewhere under the alpha council's when they arrived to a chamber. inside there were an egg that contain magic and power itself—the stone of power—with its watcher. the watcher said that it needed the triumvirate to take it and if victor took it, he would be the most powerful indeed (why not just leave it then and ran somewhere far away, it was clear that victor couldn't take it himself -.-). also, the triumvirate had to defeat him outside his circle of power, in the place where they could have more power, but idiot cass didn't know where it was (isn't it obvious, it was in the black fortress where there was the statue and all that-.- stupid idiot indeed). this was the book of simpleton -.-
then they drove back with the others when their car was bombed and the triumvirate was kidnapped, again. they woke up in a place above the stone of power, surrounded by demons and frozen shifters (apparently they attacked but victor used the heartstone against them). victor took each of their blood with the chalice of youth (the chalice enhanced it) the pour it into the cauldron then voila, the stone of power was evil.
but not so fast because helped has come and connor managed to unfreeze the shifters. it was carnage and del decided that she needed to die, just like what the prophecy said so she stabbed herself (badass) and cass had no choice but take her power, ran into victor and teleported him to the black fort (finally, she realized that). of course victor threw a tantrum and grow until 6 meter tall and made out of stone. but, just with little death power from del's statue, he died. so fckin anticlimactic. the she returned to Glencarrough and nix said that del's body disappeared, there was little casualties (only a few shifters, how convenient) then they returned to the magic bend, tried not to be sad because the prophecy said that del would return and eat their feelings in P&P