I don’t have a whole lot to say about this book, mainly because I don’t really remember what happened in it.
To be fair, I continued straight from this book into book four, but I don’t think it says anything great about this book that I’ve already forgotten what I read two days ago.
Based on the title, you would think there would be a lot of Shade in this book. But no. He makes maybe three appearances, and obviously none of them were memorable.
Lera continued to be absolutely useless. There was one scene where I thought the author would finally let her fight her way out of a sticky situation, but no. Tye came in and saved her ass. I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I feel the need to point out that, at this point, Lera has literally never won a fight on her own or not needed the help of at least one of the male heroes.
There also is a distinct lack of plot, which is kind of frustrating at this point. I realize that this is supposed to be more episodic, but there should be an established overarching plot over the course of the series, with smaller, easily accomplished plots in each novel if we’re really going to follow a serial format.
And while the memory loss is easily identifiable as the larger plot, we still have no idea how Lera plans to even begin to resolve it. I feel like we have a destination in mind, but we can’t see it yet and are just slowly meandering towards it with frequent, useless pitstops off to the side.
I think that there are six books planned in this series, and I’m really straining myself trying to figure out how a resolution can be easily accomplished in that amount of time, considering we have made no progress towards an end goal.
Maybe book four will enlighten me, but…my hopes aren’t high.
I will say that the book is well-written, and Lera does have the occasional witty rejoinder that is actually kind of humorous. And the idea behind the plot is interesting, I’m just not loving the execution so far.