“Out of all Hollow's books, this one affected me the most. Keeping the humor going, I found this book a faster read than the last one. Rachel loses her driving privelages and is forced to take driver's ed. Were's are ending up dead, including Brett...the militant were from Mackinaw that had been shadowing Rachel and David to join their pack. The IS arrests David as the suspect. In the meantime, Al finds a way to use his human familiar to walk by way of possession while the sun is up. Al poses as Lee, Trent's friend, to stand up with Trent at his wedding. Rachel is asked to be a bridesmaid much to Ellisabeth's dismay (but only to work the wedding) and the police release Piscary to get a handle on the sudden riots in Cincinnati. Piscary is shown vanquishing Al, and therefore released from prison. He then proceeds to evict Rachel from the church after already kidnapping Ivy to return to be his scion.
Kisten is removed from his protection after he refuses a direct order to kill Rachel and in a frantic rush, she drives Kist to Nick's old apartment and tries to figure out how she can use the focus to buy protection from Piscary for both her and Kist. The conflict is never-ending and boils down to Rachel arresting Trent at his own wedding and then calling a meeting to arrange her safety at the station. There is a huge fight that breaks out, Ivy is there but catatonic with Skinner and she bargains for the church, her freedom and Kist's...but Piscary finds a way to undo everything Rachel bargains for. In the confusion, Skinner kills Piscary for trying to kill Ivy and on top of all of it, Piscary informs Rachel that Kist has been murdered...Twice...
Jenks and Ivy both try to help Rachel and Piscary winds up dead, but not before he tries to kill Ivy and Jenks is blown across the room. Believing that everything she loves is dead, Rachel spins a demon curse and takes the focus into herself...becomming the focus. All she loves and cares about is gone so why should she go on? She wakes up 2 days later, Ceri having helped remove the focus from Rachel and giving it to David (Rachel's alpha) and Minias removing his debt by helping to get the curse out of Rachel. Jenks turns out to be alive as is Ivy leaving only the question of Kisten. Rachel and Ivy go to Kist's boat to look for him and discover him dead...twice...
Here is where I actually have a hard time turning to the next pages...because I cannot believe that Kist is really dead. I kept thinking, it's a trick, it's fake....Rachel, Ivy (and me) all love Kist. He can't be dead. He was killed once. Not bled out, but actually murdered on his own boat. Rachel is working with a psychic to try to find Kist and recalls being there as she recognizes her own magic on his boat...but she can't remember what happened.
Ivy and Jenks put Kistens pool table in the church as a gift to Rachel which is bittersweet...seeing as how Kist is gone forever. Lost to Rachel who loved him and tried to see a future with him and to Ivy...her one-time lover and only person to know all the horrible things Ivy has endured. The loss is great.
I am reading on, but I'm having a hard time forgiving Kim Harrison for killing off Kist. I thought he was really good for Rachel and Ivy.”
