Kitty is recruited by her former lover, Lex, and her current boss, Mac, to pursue the position of Titania (ambassador between Earth magicals and Faerie) after the previous Titania dies of "natural causes" (massive blood loss). As she holds Lex responsible for being an outcast from witch society and believes herself too young to hold that much responsibility, she is understandably reluctant. However, after her frost faerie cousin, Portia, insists, Kitty throws her hat in the ring -- and learns who her competition will be.[return][return]Through the competition for the title of Titania, I thought this book was interesting and fun and tragic in turns. Unfortunately, after the competition was resolved, it really started to fall apart for me. Kitty is loyal, powerful, and has impulse control issues. Maybe I've read too many characters with that description lately, maybe the author relies too much on Kitty's poor judgment to move the plot along, maybe I was just never able to relate very well to Kitty, but by the end of the book I had Kitty planted firmly in the "too stupid to live" category of heroines.[return][return]At the end, I'm not sure how to rate this. Has a lot of promise and potential at the beginning, interesting secondary characters that will probably get more fleshed out over time, but at the end it's mostly about Kitty, and I didn't really like Kitty. If Cassie Palmer bugs you, I think you'll have the same reaction to Kitty (and the other parts of Kitty's triangle aren't as interesting as Pritkin or Mircea). However, if you really like the Cassie Palmer or Dresden series, it might be worth your time to at least check out an excerpt.