I couldn't stop, since I had the next book in Karma's series - had to see what happened next. Which is utterly awful and rotten. Jake screws up even worse than he did in the first book - and Karma breaks. All done. She leaves him...and then worse happens. She manages to get a bit of her own back (not on Jake, on the villains of the first book - and the ramifications of said villains are frightening). The book then somewhat devolves into Karma runs, Fenerec catch her, Karma runs, Fenerec catch her... But Jake finally catches a clue, decides where his loyalties lie...and he's going to have to spend some more time convincing Karma. Her trust in him is pretty well gone. In bed, sure, yeah (though Blain never gets detailed, thank you), but trust him to put her first, or even on his priority list? Not so much. There's a lot of work to be done there. By the end of the book they've gotten to a place where that work can be begun. Also there are sources where it might be possible to find out more about Karma's past, and whether there are any more like her. This was supposed to be a duology, but the story refused to fit into those parameters; the third book is being written, and when it reaches full size Blain says she'll evaluate whether the story will fit into that or it will need a fourth book. No objection either way from me. My only complaint about Blain's books is that I keep (stupidly) starting them in the evening, and then I don't get enough sleep that night. ( )