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gingerbookdragon85's review against another edition
4.0
I am in LOVE! I thought I loved the previous series, but this one takes the cake even more!
ninaleigh's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
baileyemma25's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
“A Viking and a monkey completely undid all my years of building wall” - Zoey
“I was in love with her. I didn’t simply care for her or want to be with but completely in love… now I had everything to lose.” - Ryker
“I thought I had been happy enough, content. One tiny human completely unhinged my life, my rules, and my stability. Making me see I had been walking around for centuries as a zombie.” - Ryker
anitak88's review against another edition
4.0
I'm giving this one 4.5 Stars. It was another amazing read by this author and the flow of the story is just perfect. We continue with the character development and the introduction and continue development of the new side characters. The revelations in this book were just mind blowing and the way she is describing the characteristics of some of the people is so great that it really does paint the picture for you. The reason why it's not five stars is because I wanted more of Zoey and Ryker together and that's just a selfish want because the way that this book happened it made perfect sense why they were apart. And that cliffhanger ending was just unbelievable. I'm so happy the last book is out and I don't have to wait to find out what happens.
devansbooklife's review against another edition
4.0
I seriously cannot believe I have to wait until December to find out what happens after that cliffhanger! I'm completely smitten with Ryker. Zoey is a walking contradiction, she is supposedly this skilled fighter but somehow is always overrun and outsmarted. I cannot get the inconsistencies in her behavior. She's been trained to be a collector but constantly walks into traps? That's my only complaint in this series.
kgoldd's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
kaylawhite17's review against another edition
2.0
This book series felt so drawn out. I just wasn't vibing with it. It felt exactly the same as Savage Lands. In fact, when I go to talk about the main character I always think of the name Lexi instead of Zoey.
I was glad to finish this series but I can't really even say what happened in this book. I do appreciate that it ended happily. I was glad Zoey killed Rapava and I'm glad her and Ryker got their happily ever after.
I didn't find the sisters story line believable. The girl was dying from whatever genetic condition she had. Rapava tries to save her, but just transplants legs onto her. Yet they somehow get the legs removed and her genetic condition is just good?? Like it never happened... Okay then.
Like I said it was fine. Nothing special.
I was glad to finish this series but I can't really even say what happened in this book. I do appreciate that it ended happily. I was glad Zoey killed Rapava and I'm glad her and Ryker got their happily ever after.
I didn't find the sisters story line believable. The girl was dying from whatever genetic condition she had. Rapava tries to save her, but just transplants legs onto her. Yet they somehow get the legs removed and her genetic condition is just good?? Like it never happened... Okay then.
Like I said it was fine. Nothing special.
thewordslinger's review
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
I am BAFFLED at how high the ratings for this series are here on Goodreads. There must be a serious bot inflation problem going on here because there is NO WAY real live humans could be THIS obsessed over this.
I will say this one had a little bit more plot progression than the prevous two. If only becuase Ryker and Zoey are separated for half the book and we DO eventually get both perspectives.
But I'm using the term "plot progression" very loosely. This is still the dumbest of the dumb things.
Nothing makes sense. Zoey is "playing the game" to get in Rapava's good graces again, which could have been cool, but wasn't. Croygen is there, but serves no purpose other than to have painfully cheesy banter.
Sprig stopped being cute in book 2. All this monkey does is interrupt "important" conversations to whine about food. I'm so fucking over it.
People die without sharing the information they need to share. People who we thought were dead...fucking aren't for no goddamned reason other than because it's dramatic.
The motivations for both villains make no sense. Vadik is probably the stupidest character I've read about in a long time (why, if you want Zoey so bad, did you GIVE HER TO RAPAVA YOU FUCKING DIPSHIT). Rapava is in full on mad-scientist mode, which, if the science weren't so completely fucked up and fabricated and completely arbitrary and ungrounded in reality, might have been interesting. But the 'threat' he claims is his motivation...doesn't exist. We're 3 books in and have still seen ZERO actual fae being terrible to humans. The electrical storm has never been explained. There's always this threat of "war" coming, but we see no actual plans of it from any actual potential enemies... Vadik, who MIGHT have been a big bad and could have potentially been cool is turned literally into another Marcell, wanting Zoey to fight for him to make money.
Guys. I'm so sorry. But what the fuck? We have better stuff out there than this. I swear we do.
The magic still makes no sense. The fae characters act exactly like the humans. Even using guns, when we were told in Book 2 that the fae fight with swords. They might as well have been another human mafia-like gang for all the magical crap going on.
The reveals were lackluster.
The writing is STILL juvenile as fuck and this book wasn't edited. I don't care what the front credits say. Hollie, from www.hollietheeditor.com needs to find a new profession.
Reader's Notes:
Chapter 1: If Zoey's completely healed from the defect in her DNA, why does she still get nosebleeds? She had them all the way through the last book. It's never explained. She's just magically okay now. Yay?
This makes no sense. Why would Vadik give Zoey back to Rapava so he can learn from her how to create an army of humans strong enough to do battle with the fae? Is Vadik not fae? Why would he help the enemy?
Chapter 2: Um. Sperm don't actually stay in a woman's body for MONTHS after she has sex with a guy. And it had been a LONG time between her and Ryker hooking up and the end of book 2. Amara says MONTHS have passed on multiple ocassions. So THAT'S impossible. And gross.
The medical, science part of this is so hoaky. You can't just make shit up when you start talking science stuff. You have to do your research and make it believable. SMB clearly has never heard of Google.
So are these dreams like a mind-link? If not I don't care.
Chapter 3: This shit has bothered me for 3 books now. Nobody. Talks. Like. This. It's. As. Stupid. As. The. Overdramatic. Noooooooos.
This book could benefit from a dual POV. All this time spent with Zoey and we have NO idea what's going on with Ryker.
Chapter 4: This fae energy burst STILL isn't explained. Did Vadik do it? Was it a yet unknown bigger enemy? WHY was it done? Was Seattle the only place hit? I would have expected more info about it at this point, but SMB doesn't seem capable of managing terrible plot AND world-building.
Chapter 5: Sera--you mean the mean girl from Book 1? Tell me why Zoey (or I) should give a shit if she dies?
Chapter 8: The shifting of Croygen's obligation from Ryker to Zoey is weird. Is it tied to the fae powers and not the fae itself? I'd understand if it was severed--only no I wouldn't because powers or not, Ryker is still a fae. Again, the magic in this world is totally and completely arbitrary.
<b>"Where you go...I go."</b>
Okay, but then why wasn't he following Ryker around like this all of book 1 and most of book 2??????
<b>"You have an oath to keep me alive and Ryker has an oath to end it."</b>
Ignoring the grammar for the moment, THIS plotline would be so good for a book! An enemy character bound to protect an FMC and keep her alive against his will and her lover doomed to end her life even though it'd kill him to do so.
I'd read the SHIT out of that! Provided it was written by literally anybody else.
Chapter 10: Sprig has lost his charm for me. All he does now is talk about food. It's silly, adds nothing to the plot or the conversation (often derailing an otherwise important conversation between two other characters), is repetitive and boring as hell.
Can't Croygen sense if Zoey is in danger? So why did he freak out and come see her to make sure she was okay?
How are they just walking around without tripping alarms or being seen on cameras? You mean to tell me they're somehow avoiding all the high-tech security that must exist in this place for Rapava to be doing all the crazy fucked up experiments he's doing? You mean that the card she got from Kate won't be read and recorded by the doors she opens--thus leading back to Kate and making her look even more suspicious? No thought. Absolutely none was put into this.
Chapter 12: <b>"I was never able to learn anything except [the stone's] hidden somewhere between China and Magnolia." </b>
PLEASE tell me SMB meant MONGOLIA. Hollie, you fucking failure of an editor!
Chapter 13: Ugh. So you mean to tell me this 12 year old girl wheeled herself across town to the super secret laboratory and demanded to be helped and Rapava was just like, sure kid, no sweat. C'mon in. ???? This is stupid, and it serves zero purpose except to be dramatic and make the FMC question her mission to overthrow the DMG. It comes out of nowhere, has no good basis or background for existing and isn't well-thought-out or rendered. I hate it.
<b>"As you see, Lexie has been given legs. The transplants are not adapting liked I hoped..."</b>
A couple things:
1. Leg transplants aren't a thing. If they were, they surely would be being done in regular hospitals. This lack of medical explanations is killing me.
2. LIKED I HOPED?! Hollie, goddamnit!
Chapter 16: Oh. Good. We DO get Ryker's POV. This is actually impressive.
Okay. I've been spoiled for this, but I know that Vadik is Ryker's father. The way he's talking now, it seems like he knows it too. <b>"You were conceived to fight, to survive, to escape. Possibly even death."</b>
Keep this in mind, because in a couple pages, he's gonna claim that Ryker's not as big a prize as Zoey, PURELY because Zoey can fight. I'm already angry, and I haven't even gotten to that part of my notes yet.
Once again, if Vadik knew Zoey had Ryker's powers, WHY DID HE GIVE HER BACK TO RAPAVA???
LOL so Regnus is dead. Has been for a log time. So that plotline was all bullshit.
<b>"She is actually the better choice. She can bring in money as my thief and my fighter."</b>
What did I tell you. Vadik's an imbecile. Not him trying to use Zoey the exact same way a human gang leader did! Also, how is Ryker not a thief and fighter????? Vadik LITERALLY JUST SAID RYKER WAS CONCEIVED TO BE A FIGHTER. This whole conversation had me laughing it was so fucking dumb.
Okay, so Zoey and Ryker DO share some kind of mind-link. Cause SMB's seriously making me reread this same dream sequence from Ryker's perspective. And there's nothing new added except page length.
Chapter 18: Once again, if you wanted Zoey so fucking bad, WHY did you give her up? I hate Vadik. I also hate that we've had the exact same conversation for like 4 chapters now.
Not 1 but 2 repeated dream sequences. Joy. We totally have time for this in a 241 page long story.
Chapter 19: So Ryker isn't full blooded fae? And demons aren't fae? I'm so fucking confused right now.
Ingrid and Margo--totally ancient names. And neither of these women talk like they're from anther time hundreds of years ago.
Chapter 21: How does Zoey have the stone? It was in Ryker's boot, no? How does Amara know about the boot in the first place? She was all "we have to go to Mongolia to dig it up" last book, now she's magically aware of where it was all along? This whole conversation makes zero sense.
This is the second or third time "fae" has been pluralized as "faes". I've never seen that shit in my life and I hate it.
Chapter 24: Oh. So somehow Ryker knew he was gonna get captured so he put the stone in Zoey's boot. Huh? What made him think that was a good idea? And when the hell did he have the time or privacy to make that happen? And of course, Zoey just automatically knows where the stone is. Knows it's been there the whole time. And CAN HEAR IT. Okay... well folks, we're 80% of the way through this book and she hasn't mentioned that shit one time.
It's like this author needed something to happen so she just makes shit up on the fly without any consideration for the chapters and books that came before, leading her characters up to this moment.
Why did Ryker put the stone in Zoey's boot?
When?
How did Zoey not notice one boot was heavier than the other when she noticed the weight difference IMMEDIATELY when she pulled Ryker's boots off in book 2?
She says she's sensed the stone's presence all along, but up until this very moment, hasn't even thought about it.
Why, if Ryker put the stone in Zoey's boot did he still feel the need to throw HIS boots through some random gate?
If nobody knew he had it in his boot to begin with, what was the point? If anything, his boot shenanigans only drew attention to it more.
There's zero logic or foreshadowing or legitimate buildup to this revelation whatsoever. This book/series is so disjointed and the plot is so poorly contrived because there was zero forethought put into how these different events were going to link together and build upon each other.
Chapter 25: Having Zoey torture Ryker is an interesting plot development, but I have zero faith that SMB will be able to bring us back from it and save their relationship in a meaningful and convincing way.
Ryker's too consumed with his need to kill Zoey, that he doesn't even bother to be upset at the fact that she's carving him up like a Thanksgiving turkey. And you watch, this will be the cop-out as to why he's gonna forgive her. Because it's made clear that he doesn't have any fucking clue that she's pretending. There's no sense of "I know you're playing a game, do what you gotta do". It's just bloodlust.
Chapter 26: Now all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Zoey's hearing the stone call her name--what was it doing for the first three quarters of this book? Was it asleep? No. It wasn't in her fucking boot at all. Not until the author put it there like 2 chapters ago. Schrodinger's plot device.
Chapter 27: Okay, so Zoey admits she didn't know she had the stone until just a couple days before...so she couldn't hear it talking to her before? But can now?
And that still doesn't explain how she didn't notice one of her boots was heavier than the other--the exact same way she did with Ryker's.
Why bring in 3 more objects of power into this shitshow? 1 stone is enough and it's hardly been explained or used. Now there's supposedly 4 different objects of immense power? Guys, we're 3 books into a 4 book series. These books aren't even 300 pages long. This story is too short for this shit.
Welp. We've got cheating on both sides now. Zoey 'proving' to Croyden that he can't seduce her by making out with him is the dumbest. And right after she's finished torturing the man she supposedly loves, no less? And she's all into it because "she's not dead" and hasn't been touched by a man in months? We didn't need this scene AT ALL. All it does is make me hate Zoey.
Chapter 30: Again, they're wandering around this facility like cameras don't exist.
Chapter 31: "Vocals" -- you mean vocal chords?
If the promise affects Ryker this strongly then why didn't Croygen feel compelled to save Ryker/Zoey from Garrett or Vadik's men at the end of Book 2? It's the same sort of connection, is it not? He's bound to Zoey (for some fucking reason) the same way Ryker is.
And if Ryker's still bound by his promise to Zoey, it still means he can still have those sorts of "fae" connections--so why did Croygen's obligation shift from Ryker to Zoey at all? Once again, the magic in this world MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE.
I will say this one had a little bit more plot progression than the prevous two. If only becuase Ryker and Zoey are separated for half the book and we DO eventually get both perspectives.
But I'm using the term "plot progression" very loosely. This is still the dumbest of the dumb things.
Nothing makes sense. Zoey is "playing the game" to get in Rapava's good graces again, which could have been cool, but wasn't. Croygen is there, but serves no purpose other than to have painfully cheesy banter.
Sprig stopped being cute in book 2. All this monkey does is interrupt "important" conversations to whine about food. I'm so fucking over it.
People die without sharing the information they need to share. People who we thought were dead...fucking aren't for no goddamned reason other than because it's dramatic.
The motivations for both villains make no sense. Vadik is probably the stupidest character I've read about in a long time (why, if you want Zoey so bad, did you GIVE HER TO RAPAVA YOU FUCKING DIPSHIT). Rapava is in full on mad-scientist mode, which, if the science weren't so completely fucked up and fabricated and completely arbitrary and ungrounded in reality, might have been interesting. But the 'threat' he claims is his motivation...doesn't exist. We're 3 books in and have still seen ZERO actual fae being terrible to humans. The electrical storm has never been explained. There's always this threat of "war" coming, but we see no actual plans of it from any actual potential enemies... Vadik, who MIGHT have been a big bad and could have potentially been cool is turned literally into another Marcell, wanting Zoey to fight for him to make money.
Guys. I'm so sorry. But what the fuck? We have better stuff out there than this. I swear we do.
The magic still makes no sense. The fae characters act exactly like the humans. Even using guns, when we were told in Book 2 that the fae fight with swords. They might as well have been another human mafia-like gang for all the magical crap going on.
The reveals were lackluster.
The writing is STILL juvenile as fuck and this book wasn't edited. I don't care what the front credits say. Hollie, from www.hollietheeditor.com needs to find a new profession.
Reader's Notes:
This makes no sense. Why would Vadik give Zoey back to Rapava so he can learn from her how to create an army of humans strong enough to do battle with the fae? Is Vadik not fae? Why would he help the enemy?
Chapter 2: Um. Sperm don't actually stay in a woman's body for MONTHS after she has sex with a guy. And it had been a LONG time between her and Ryker hooking up and the end of book 2. Amara says MONTHS have passed on multiple ocassions. So THAT'S impossible. And gross.
The medical, science part of this is so hoaky. You can't just make shit up when you start talking science stuff. You have to do your research and make it believable. SMB clearly has never heard of Google.
So are these dreams like a mind-link? If not I don't care.
Chapter 3: This shit has bothered me for 3 books now. Nobody. Talks. Like. This. It's. As. Stupid. As. The. Overdramatic. Noooooooos.
This book could benefit from a dual POV. All this time spent with Zoey and we have NO idea what's going on with Ryker.
Chapter 4: This fae energy burst STILL isn't explained. Did Vadik do it? Was it a yet unknown bigger enemy? WHY was it done? Was Seattle the only place hit? I would have expected more info about it at this point, but SMB doesn't seem capable of managing terrible plot AND world-building.
Chapter 5: Sera--you mean the mean girl from Book 1? Tell me why Zoey (or I) should give a shit if she dies?
Chapter 8: The shifting of Croygen's obligation from Ryker to Zoey is weird. Is it tied to the fae powers and not the fae itself? I'd understand if it was severed--only no I wouldn't because powers or not, Ryker is still a fae. Again, the magic in this world is totally and completely arbitrary.
<b>"Where you go...I go."</b>
Okay, but then why wasn't he following Ryker around like this all of book 1 and most of book 2??????
<b>"You have an oath to keep me alive and Ryker has an oath to end it."</b>
Ignoring the grammar for the moment, THIS plotline would be so good for a book! An enemy character bound to protect an FMC and keep her alive against his will and her lover doomed to end her life even though it'd kill him to do so.
I'd read the SHIT out of that! Provided it was written by literally anybody else.
Chapter 10: Sprig has lost his charm for me. All he does now is talk about food. It's silly, adds nothing to the plot or the conversation (often derailing an otherwise important conversation between two other characters), is repetitive and boring as hell.
Can't Croygen sense if Zoey is in danger? So why did he freak out and come see her to make sure she was okay?
How are they just walking around without tripping alarms or being seen on cameras? You mean to tell me they're somehow avoiding all the high-tech security that must exist in this place for Rapava to be doing all the crazy fucked up experiments he's doing? You mean that the card she got from Kate won't be read and recorded by the doors she opens--thus leading back to Kate and making her look even more suspicious? No thought. Absolutely none was put into this.
Chapter 12: <b>"I was never able to learn anything except [the stone's] hidden somewhere between China and Magnolia." </b>
PLEASE tell me SMB meant MONGOLIA. Hollie, you fucking failure of an editor!
Chapter 13: Ugh. So you mean to tell me this 12 year old girl wheeled herself across town to the super secret laboratory and demanded to be helped and Rapava was just like, sure kid, no sweat. C'mon in. ???? This is stupid, and it serves zero purpose except to be dramatic and make the FMC question her mission to overthrow the DMG. It comes out of nowhere, has no good basis or background for existing and isn't well-thought-out or rendered. I hate it.
<b>"As you see, Lexie has been given legs. The transplants are not adapting liked I hoped..."</b>
A couple things:
1. Leg transplants aren't a thing. If they were, they surely would be being done in regular hospitals. This lack of medical explanations is killing me.
2. LIKED I HOPED?! Hollie, goddamnit!
Chapter 16: Oh. Good. We DO get Ryker's POV. This is actually impressive.
Okay. I've been spoiled for this, but I know that Vadik is Ryker's father. The way he's talking now, it seems like he knows it too. <b>"You were conceived to fight, to survive, to escape. Possibly even death."</b>
Keep this in mind, because in a couple pages, he's gonna claim that Ryker's not as big a prize as Zoey, PURELY because Zoey can fight. I'm already angry, and I haven't even gotten to that part of my notes yet.
Once again, if Vadik knew Zoey had Ryker's powers, WHY DID HE GIVE HER BACK TO RAPAVA???
LOL so Regnus is dead. Has been for a log time. So that plotline was all bullshit.
<b>"She is actually the better choice. She can bring in money as my thief and my fighter."</b>
What did I tell you. Vadik's an imbecile. Not him trying to use Zoey the exact same way a human gang leader did! Also, how is Ryker not a thief and fighter????? Vadik LITERALLY JUST SAID RYKER WAS CONCEIVED TO BE A FIGHTER. This whole conversation had me laughing it was so fucking dumb.
Okay, so Zoey and Ryker DO share some kind of mind-link. Cause SMB's seriously making me reread this same dream sequence from Ryker's perspective. And there's nothing new added except page length.
Chapter 18: Once again, if you wanted Zoey so fucking bad, WHY did you give her up? I hate Vadik. I also hate that we've had the exact same conversation for like 4 chapters now.
Not 1 but 2 repeated dream sequences. Joy. We totally have time for this in a 241 page long story.
Chapter 19: So Ryker isn't full blooded fae? And demons aren't fae? I'm so fucking confused right now.
Ingrid and Margo--totally ancient names. And neither of these women talk like they're from anther time hundreds of years ago.
Chapter 21: How does Zoey have the stone? It was in Ryker's boot, no? How does Amara know about the boot in the first place? She was all "we have to go to Mongolia to dig it up" last book, now she's magically aware of where it was all along? This whole conversation makes zero sense.
This is the second or third time "fae" has been pluralized as "faes". I've never seen that shit in my life and I hate it.
Chapter 24: Oh. So somehow Ryker knew he was gonna get captured so he put the stone in Zoey's boot. Huh? What made him think that was a good idea? And when the hell did he have the time or privacy to make that happen? And of course, Zoey just automatically knows where the stone is. Knows it's been there the whole time. And CAN HEAR IT. Okay... well folks, we're 80% of the way through this book and she hasn't mentioned that shit one time.
It's like this author needed something to happen so she just makes shit up on the fly without any consideration for the chapters and books that came before, leading her characters up to this moment.
Why did Ryker put the stone in Zoey's boot?
When?
How did Zoey not notice one boot was heavier than the other when she noticed the weight difference IMMEDIATELY when she pulled Ryker's boots off in book 2?
She says she's sensed the stone's presence all along, but up until this very moment, hasn't even thought about it.
Why, if Ryker put the stone in Zoey's boot did he still feel the need to throw HIS boots through some random gate?
If nobody knew he had it in his boot to begin with, what was the point? If anything, his boot shenanigans only drew attention to it more.
There's zero logic or foreshadowing or legitimate buildup to this revelation whatsoever. This book/series is so disjointed and the plot is so poorly contrived because there was zero forethought put into how these different events were going to link together and build upon each other.
Chapter 25: Having Zoey torture Ryker is an interesting plot development, but I have zero faith that SMB will be able to bring us back from it and save their relationship in a meaningful and convincing way.
Ryker's too consumed with his need to kill Zoey, that he doesn't even bother to be upset at the fact that she's carving him up like a Thanksgiving turkey. And you watch, this will be the cop-out as to why he's gonna forgive her. Because it's made clear that he doesn't have any fucking clue that she's pretending. There's no sense of "I know you're playing a game, do what you gotta do". It's just bloodlust.
Chapter 26: Now all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Zoey's hearing the stone call her name--what was it doing for the first three quarters of this book? Was it asleep? No. It wasn't in her fucking boot at all. Not until the author put it there like 2 chapters ago. Schrodinger's plot device.
Chapter 27: Okay, so Zoey admits she didn't know she had the stone until just a couple days before...so she couldn't hear it talking to her before? But can now?
And that still doesn't explain how she didn't notice one of her boots was heavier than the other--the exact same way she did with Ryker's.
Why bring in 3 more objects of power into this shitshow? 1 stone is enough and it's hardly been explained or used. Now there's supposedly 4 different objects of immense power? Guys, we're 3 books into a 4 book series. These books aren't even 300 pages long. This story is too short for this shit.
Welp. We've got cheating on both sides now. Zoey 'proving' to Croyden that he can't seduce her by making out with him is the dumbest. And right after she's finished torturing the man she supposedly loves, no less? And she's all into it because "she's not dead" and hasn't been touched by a man in months? We didn't need this scene AT ALL. All it does is make me hate Zoey.
Chapter 30: Again, they're wandering around this facility like cameras don't exist.
Chapter 31: "Vocals" -- you mean vocal chords?
If the promise affects Ryker this strongly then why didn't Croygen feel compelled to save Ryker/Zoey from Garrett or Vadik's men at the end of Book 2? It's the same sort of connection, is it not? He's bound to Zoey (for some fucking reason) the same way Ryker is.
And if Ryker's still bound by his promise to Zoey, it still means he can still have those sorts of "fae" connections--so why did Croygen's obligation shift from Ryker to Zoey at all? Once again, the magic in this world MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE.
gypsydawn's review against another edition
4.0
Awesome
That ending! Ugh! It’s past midnight and now I have to stay up to start the next one because I NEED to know!
That ending! Ugh! It’s past midnight and now I have to stay up to start the next one because I NEED to know!