I received this book for free. I am voluntarily posting this review and all opinions expressed herein are my own.
I enjoy books in this genre and thought I would really enjoy an urban fantasy story with a strong heroine at the helm. Well, that’s not quite what this is. I grew tired and even irritated at the amount of times I had to listen to her inner monologue discussing her relationship with Xai. It was constant – she loved him; she hated him; he walked all over her; she deserved his poor treatment; okay, let’s have sex; can I trust you? and repeat. At times their relationship seemed to be on the verge of being abusive, yet she still came back – every time. This indecisive behavior for a strong heroine and her inability to set some boundaries quickly grew very tiresome [or at the very least stand up for herself or demand some answers from him]. And part of the problem for me was that I really didn’t like Xai either.
The narrator, Sarah Puckett, carried most of the water for this narration and she did a great job. She did various voices for the characters and narrated at a good pace. I have to confess that after listening to Sarah’s narration for an hour or two to suddenly hear a male narrator [Tristan Hunt] was a bit jolting. I cannot disparage his narration – as he did a good job – but nonetheless, both times I heard him start narrating, it put me off the story a bit as I had gotten used to listening to a female voice [Sarah Puckett].