4.5 Stars

You know, I've got quite a bit of shifter books under my belt and they all have some degree of claiming, marking, mating - but I'd have to say that this takes the cake, because the way Calmes describes and lays it all out how Logan and Jin are just made for each other, really impressed me.

"Every part of me: human, beast, heart, mind, and dear God, body, recognized him as belonging to me...There was no part of me that could have denied his claim as the animal I was recognized its mate, without question, and yearned to lie down and submit. I wanted him all over me, holding me down, moving inside me..."

So yes, this still had massive info dump. There's still the insane werepanther laws to shake your head at and a cast of characters too large to remember. But the bond between these two?? Possession. Obsession. Unf.

"You ask too much if you expect me to live and not have your sweet eyes on me at every moment. You must be the first I see when I wake and the last before I sleep. It can be no other way...my heart can't take any less."

Now I haven't read all of Calmes's works but I think I can say that she really out did herself with this. Granted, there will always be convenient loopholes and over the top shenaningans, but I swooned the hardest in this last installment. Please consider reading this series in one go, lest important brain cells be lost in trying to remember the intricacies of this complex but impressive world.

A truly satisfying end wrapping up fate and destiny, and giving Jin and Logan the best possible happy ending. Everything surely happens for a reason and what will be was always meant to be - it's simply maat.

A shout out to Meags for all the fun and torture we had with these two crazy cats! ( )

This book takes place about 5 years after the happenings in Crucible of Fate (at least I think it does since I remember Jin and Logan's son Ilia being born during that book, and in this one he is five years old.)
I'm not satisfied with the book, but I'm glad I've read it.

I liked revisiting Jin and Logan and I liked that they got a happy ending. I liked seeing Domin and Yuri again too! I would love to have seen more of Ilia's growing up, to have gotten the chance to know him better though.

I didn't like the whole tribe turning on Logan, including his father and both of his brothers. Russ's comeback and Peter's behavior were a wtf? moment for me, though I kinda waited for Koren to screw up. But the rest of the pack? After 20 years of having as awesome a semel as Logan, for them as a whole to turn their back on him, especially after Andrian was killed the way he was and that whole scene when they tried to kill Logan, Jin and their child while they were asleep? Maybe if we were given a scene (or six) of the way Logan was in those five years to warrant such betrayal by his whole pack, and of how the people around him went from love to hate (especially his father and brothers) I would have been able to believe the whole scenario more.

Other than that, everything has been tied in a neat little bow, every major character has been given an ending, which gives me the impression we won't be seeing any more of them again. ( )

Maaaaaaaa che sarà? L'ultimo? Non è possibile... Vero?
Ne voglio ancora =_= ( )