This book was free so I gave it a whirl. It’s good and has KA rock chick vibes that I liked. But it also had two of my most hated things. A love triangle and cliffhanger. I kinda hated the ending too. There are nine books in this series. The rest are not on KU and I’d have to buy the series to find out how she eventually winds up with who she does about four books in. Not sure I want to invest in that. I’ll see. It could be an in between books, series for me.

In the end, I managed to finish reading the story. While the premise was fantastic, I did not care for the execution. I had a long diatribe that I wrote in my head but I'll boil it down to: women are smarter than this. The main character, Nadia Wolf, allows all the men in her life to manipulate and/or exploit her. We've come so far; let's not return to the worst time in our history.

I should have enjoyed this book. Nadia was a wonderful character, and the plot was interesting, but too many of the characters I think we were meant to like (especially the men) were horrible people, and Nadia (who seems mostly like a smart woman) constantly bends her will to accommodate men who don’t deserve her.

Even worse, this book ends with a significant cliffhanger. In my opinion, a book should be a complete story. A final-chapter cliffhanger shows a lack of respect for your readers and for the money they (hopefully) spent to buy your book.