The Christian nonsense that was in the background of the previous books comes to the forefront in order to ruin the third book. Selene, Damien and the other lords continue to try to unify in the face of the invading Empire. Meanwhile, the "Light" is unnecessarily male while the evil Dark Lady is, obviously, female. Good, Christian misogyny. Worse, Selene's religious conversion and fanaticism takes over the story that otherwise would have been a well paced sword and sorcery fantasy.