Ok, so I managed to break through and re-read all of this series this month, and I've invested a lot of time into my other reviews and I've kind of lost steam with this one. What I'll say is that I liked this book the most. It feels like Pierce is just starting to get her groove with this one. It didn't have the same pacing issues as the last three (it could still go into way more detail, but whatever). There was still a lot of unbelievable stuff, Alanna always comes up aces and all that, but I felt like this book tried the most out of the quartet to show tension and conflict.