Thanks to Berkley for letting me read this book early. All thoughts are my own! 

I thought that I could read this book without reading the others, but I could not. I was thrown into this world with little explanation of anything regarding the world. Which, I guess, is fine considering it is book nine in a series. So, I’ll take the blame for not knowing what was going on. 

Outside of that, I do think this was kinda not good. Stacy is so frustrating to follow as a character. She is grieving, and I get it. However, she doesn’t ever really try to understand Pashov’s side. He lost his memory, and is struggling to adapt to this new life he has. Everyone in this book was telling him he wasn’t doing enough or was doing everything wrong, but he’s literally still recovering from an injury. 

I think because it’s a shorter book, coming in well under 300 pages, there wasn’t a lot of time to develop their relationship again. They struggled to communicate through it, and I get that it was partly due to circumstance. I just wish we spent more time building back up their relationship instead of pushing conflict. 

I’m unsure if I’ll ever read the rest of the books, but I’d probably skip this one.