Not perfect, but far better than The Death King in my humble opinion. I’m still not really sold on Talon; but spending such a significant portion of this novel fleshing out his past helped humanize him a bit.

He’s still not a ideal person, but I appreciated that he seemed at least somewhat more concerned with Calista’s well being throughout the majority of this novel.

The modern language still pulled me out of the story, and I’d love to see Calista developed a little more intentionally outside of simply kind of just being there to be a victim.

I did enjoy the narrators work!