Kristen Ashley is the queen of alpha's so when she started the whole mystery thing, I wasn't sure how it was going to go. Luckily for all ka fans it went with a bang and was freaking awesome. And this one was actually better than the last.

I had this on preorder and before I could start, I had to find an audio book for a two hour drive and all I could focus on was my desire to read this so I ended up buying it twice. And the narration was great. I actually was bummed to arrive at my destination and have to put the story aside for a few hours.

Rus and Cin felt like they were made for each other. And I was so in love with Rus by the time he met Cin that no one less than her would have been enough. But damn do I wish I was her when I grew up. Throw in her beautiful daughter Madden and they were the perfect package for Rus.

The story had me absolutely captivated and I don't know if I was just oblivious or if I was just so engrossed in the story, but I literally didn't see that character as being the killer. I honestly, gasped his name out when it was revealed and then wondered if I had missed something when that character was mentioned earlier. But in the end, I decided I don't care if I missed something that whole thing was awesome.

I really really hope that Kristen Ashley continues with this series. Because as much as I love her writing and have several of her books on my all-time favourites list I have been struggling with some of her other works. But this was gold, and I loved every word. And I'm praying that Sabrina and Jace are coming to our kindles soon.

The girl in the mist has been one I've wanted to read since it was first announced but I just never got there. I love Kristen Ashley and her writing but I'm at this weird point where I don't want to read new ones, but I also don't want to reread the older ones. I just want to read the old ones for the first time again. And I was hoping that this might be like that. However, it didn't work out that way for me.

I am not even sure why. Partially I think I was expecting something different, but Delphine's "voice" sounded very much like most of KA's heroines. And Cade was almost cookie cutter KA hero. And although I have absolutely no problem with BDSM it's not really my kink, but it does seem to be KA's.

I read a heap of reviews before I read this, and a lot raved about it and a few complained and I just feel like I've come down in the middle. I liked the mystery; I don't feel like we quite got enough of the actual mystery for this to be anything but a romance with a little suspense. And I was expecting the romance to be secondary. But since romance is my preferred genre, I didn't mind.

In typical KA style there were a lot of secondary characters, most of whom were irrelevant and just confused me as to who the main players were. But that's probably my goldfish memory and inability to remember names. There was an overabundance of design details about furniture and accessories.

I didn't hate it, I just didn't love it. And I wanted to get that book hangover and feel the inability to adult like the first time I read Kristen Ashley. Oh well maybe I just need to reread them and see.