Bookfanatic reviewed on 1/5/2011

If you like Cat and Bones, you'll either really like this book or you won't. I loved it. A lot happens in this book. It's going to definitely tug at your heartstrings. It's a very emotional ride. When you get to the fourth book of a series, the series starts to become predictable. That doesn't happen with the fourth Night Huntress story.

An older Master vampire claims Cat is his wife. He claims to have married her when she was sixteen. Cat's memory of that event is hazy so it's not clear whether she's truly the wife of Bones or this new vampire, Gregor. A lot of distrust and distance develops betweens Bones and Cat. What happened in this story needed to happen. Cat and Bones aren't together because it's destiny or mating hormones or the gods at work. They're together because they love each other, and like any other genuine relationship, there are times when people drift apart for various reasons. Despite how close they had gotten in the past three books, they still had big issues to resolve. Those issues come to a head in this book in a very big way. He needed to say what he finally said, and she needed to open herself up more to him too. The piano scene was such a ringer. I didn't cry when I thought he died in the previous book, but the piano scene almost did me in. It is a hard scene to read because he reveals how much he cared for her, and just how much he put up with. You realize the depth of his pain and anguish. Yet at the same time you realize she doesn't realize how impulsive and stubborn she is, and how destructive she is to herself and him because of those qualities.

I liked this book because in the previous books it's Bones who seems to get all the attention from the women, but here he had to deal with jealousy and fear of losing Cat to another vampire. It's something she's had to wrestle with from the beginning since he's been with so many vampire females. Cat's line to the French woman at the opera house is too funny. I won't reveal it here, but there are some funny quips though this book doesn't have nearly the same level of witty repartee as the first two books. The secondary characters like Vlad will really grow on you. Who would have thought a vampire like Vlad would turn out to be so likable?

I was satisfied with this book. You really see an evolution in their characters, their bond together, their love for each other. If there is one fictional character that I could have, it would be Bones.

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