I was surprised at how long it took me to finish this. Normally I can devour these books within a matter of days, but I had trouble getting into this one. I blame that on that fact that I was reading four other books at the same time and was having trouble balancing my time.

Other than that, this was a very exciting and emotional read. The Herons had a close scrape this time, too close, in fact. I don't want to wreck the ending for you, but it was on point and left readers with anticipation for the next installment.