(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

owan Summerwaite is no ordinary woman. Raised at the knee of The First and honed into a weapon by the Hunter Corporation, she wields ancient knowledge from the Goddess Brigid…and is newly married to a powerful Vampire scion.
Though she'd hoped the deadly events in Venice would end the threat to The Treaty she is sworn to protect, Rowan found evidence of a grander conspiracy to destroy the fragile peace that holds humans, Vampires and those with magic back from war. A war that would only hurt the weakest and destabilize the world as we know it.
It's not so much that someone ordered her assassination that makes her angry—people try to kill her all the time—as it is the risks those she cares for, especially her new husband, now face. Clive Stewart has never tried to pen Rowan in or control her choices. He has his own fires to put out now that he's married to the most powerful non-Vampire in their world, and Rowan knows it's a challenge to support her the way she needs while not being too much or not enough.
The organization that gave her a purpose, a home, roots and a path when she'd run from The Keep at seventeen has betrayed her. Now, instead of on a much-anticipated honeymoon, Rowan is in London gathering her allies and the evidence necessary to drive out the rot within Hunter Corp. and expose whoever is at the top.
Rowan is a predator and this threat is prey. She'll burn it down and salt the earth afterward. On her terms.

This is the fourth book in the Goddess With a Blade series. It is the first one I have read. Took a chance with it as a quick look on Goodreads seemed to give it quite a good rating and I wanted to read something different for a change...

I was torn between rating this as 2 stars or 3 - I finally settled on two stars, mostly for the fact that it wasn't quite at the 3-star level...

I am probably going to be called all sorts of fun names with this review but, hell, here it goes anyway...

There is just too much sex in this book for my liking. There is, in fact, a very good plot underneath that but, for some reason, it felt like every few pages there was sex happening between random characters. Not that sex is a bad thing...but repetitive, boring sex is another thing entirely.

Not a lot of action occurs in this book - whether that is because it is setting up for a finale in the next book...and we know there must be at least one more book to come cos this one was left on a cliffhanger. And I really do hate that. Tell me the story, build it up and then finish it. Give me a satisfying conclusion. This doesn't. Seems like some people don't have an issue with that. Good for them.

Would I go back and read the others in this series? Possibly - I have read reviews of the early stories and it seems that they are more plot-based and have sex as a side-story. That I can live with.


Paul
ARH

Oh, I LOVE what Dane has done with this series. More, please.