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The thing about this book is, several of the characters are (more or less) characters that existed in the Jewels books, but brought into a new story. It's like...if I were a fanfic writer, and really loved the characters in the Jewels books, but wanted to see them in a different setting, this is what I'd write.

Well, I love the characters in the Jewels stories, so spending time with them again is a lot of fun.

Did you like Daemon? Well, you'll love Sebastian!

Felt like Jaenelle was a little too everything - simultaneously innocent and wise, young but old beyond her years, powerful yet naive? Well, that's been resolved, because she's more-or-less been split into two characters here. There's the character with the romantic storyline and the character with the big ol' superpowers.

And Teaser has more than a hint of Lucivar in his character.

All that having been said, I enjoyed the heck out of this. There's a lot of bits that are OTT and sentimental, and I am continually frustrated by the "all of this group of people are BAD!" thing that happens in her books (can't we have more than ONE person in an organization that's doing bad things that has decent reasons for doing what they do? Can't we have an evil nemesis who is three-dimensional, who is doing the wrong things for the right reasons instead of just being a dumbass or hateful?), but it made me smile AND it made me cry. Hence, four stars.