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COMPLETELY agree with Kitty Kat. Even without the bizarre cheating/David is bisexual/undying love for someone not his soulmate plotline, I would not have cared for the book, but the cheating pushed me over the edge to completely hating it. The main points that pissed me off: 1. The cheating, of course. Honestly, David/Deven cheating debacle was so unbelievable and forced (not to mention unnecessary) that I can only assume that the author was trying to work through some similar relationship issues of her own while writing this and we readers were just dragged along for the ride. After the first book, I would have believed that given how Miranda and David's "soulmate" relationship was "destined" and orchestrated by some magical necklaces, cheating would not even be an issue, but now in light of Deven and David's relationship, it kind of seems like the Signet "soulmate" selections are less about love and more about politics, what is up with that? 2. Perhaps more important than the far-fetched and galling nature of the cheating itself though is the question: what the hell was the point of it anyways? David betraying Miranda had absolutely no effect whatsoever on the rest of the storyline except maybe to introduce a little more tension in the relationship between Miranda and Deven which would have been sufficiently tense given his and David's past. 3. The abrupt introduction of David's weaknesses. In the first book David was smart, charming and tough, in this one all of the sudden he's this unlikeable, self-pitying, self-loathing philanderer with no self-control - after cheating on his soulmate wife and nearly losing her first emotionally and then physically, he still can't help but profess his undying love for Deven and kiss him goodbye at the end of the book, wtf. I felt similarly about Miranda's abrupt transformation from broken victim to avenging vampire queen, but to a lesser degree at least. 4. And then to top it all off, the writing was just subpar overall. Mainly regarding the dialogue, I felt like I was being forcefully pushed towards the writer's own beliefs via the characters' interactions. Johnathan is a really good example of that - throughout the entire book he was all but preaching about his alternative views on relationships. He didn't even seem like a real character but rather a mouthpiece for open relationships and it chafed me. Even had I agreed with that particular idea, I would still have found the conveyance of that message patronizing. To conclude (sorry this went on for a while), this book has convinced me not to continue following the series and probably not to read any of Diane Sylvan's other books either and I definitely would not recommend it.