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** spoiler alert ** Nowhere as good as The Black Jewels Trilogy. I count the last book in that statement.

Bishop recycled a lot of themes from the Black Jewels trilogy: innocent girl misunderstood and abused by family, sexually experienced man falls for innocence. There are more, but I can't think of them right now.

I disliked it in part because its moral stance allowed for no grey areas. The protagonists were all very firmly on the side of Good, and anybody who was remotely mean to them had to be Evil. Case in point: the antagonist was only ever called 'It'; Lynnea's adoptive family didn't understand her, so they were all abusive, etc.

What irritated me most was that there were so many throwaway POVs, brought in just to show how stupid the other side was.

Also, the fact that Sebastian spends most of the book referring to his love interest as a 'rabbit' leads you to some wince-worthy conclusions about what his love life must have been like outside of all the incubus activities. (Not to mention it led to some peculiar mixed metaphors about rabbits becoming tigresses.)

On the other hand, overlooking the faults in the plot and the characterizations, it's readable.