I had four 'issues' and/or problems while reading the book.

(1) The easiest to mention is just the simple fact that's been a while since I read anything in this series so it took me a while to remember everything. Yeah, this one's on me. I could have, at the very least, glanced at the prior works before I started. I mean, something as simple as looking at the descriptions. This is the easiest to mention, though, because it also went away quickly. Once I remembered just what series I was reading, and stuff.

(2) Book is called 'Wynter's War', and while there is a specific thingie directly connected to Wynter that appears throughout the book - - (a) Wynter isn't in most of the book and (b) I wouldn't exactly call what was in the book to be a war.

(3) The book kept on the edge, almost verging over, but just barely keeping on the right side of pissing me off - on the issue of the 'women are fragile and must be protect' mindset that was almost allowed to fully blossom. I mean, more than once Adam told Nikki to stay behind him, or the like, and she was - at that moment, a hell of a lot more powerful and able to protect herself than Adam was. That bloody mind-set that women are fragile things that are basically are worthless as anything but objects that needed to be protected . . . almost was there. As I said, it was a thin edge. Strained over a few times, kept from falling over because there were strong women in the series.

(4) I never really connected with the tension. I mean, everything seemed way too easy. Many people injured, one or more on the edge of death or greater than being on the edge of death and . . . I still say that everything was too bloody easy. War is hell. Where was the hell?

A fifth would be how lovey-dovey Adam and Nikki were, but I already knew what type of book it would be going in so . . . I can't really call it an issue/problem. Just . . . it was bloody off-putting, it was. ( )