Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am at a loss, stunned actually, at the total absence of a conclusion for Shepard and Claire! I have staunchly defended this series from the start, book after book, championing it's plot against the naysayers who rage over its brutality and violent sexual content.  But after all of the heartpounding twists and turns of "Born to be Bound", "Born to be Broken", and "Reborn". After all of the thrilling, soul twisting, air gasping trials Shepard and Claire have endured. And after the gigantic cliffhanger "Reborn" ended with, WHY would you end their glorious story with six measly chapters messily crammed inbetween a new story!?! This, this I cannot accept. This rush into a new phase without a more defined transfer. Especially when the context the story is transferring to is exponentially more sadistic, more sexually violent, more emotionally brutal than anything seen in all the previous three books before it.  This book put a fiery rage in my belly that I cannot quench! And perhaps this burning feeling in my gut is Addison Cain's goal, something I'd typically be ok with. However, this book honestly made me feel stupid for buying it. It made me feel as if I bought into a neverending serial story app where every chapter is a question and you have to buy story points to uncover the real truth.  In fact, "Stolen" is aptly named because I most definitely feel like my faith was stolen, my trust in the path this author was taking misplaced. Especially where Jules is concerned. As what is done to him in the end, after all his loyalty to Shepard and Claire, made me ill. And the implications of this final event toward Shepard, the danger it potentially brings back to Claire. Had me wondering aloud, how much is enough? Yet we will never really know because Cain is shifting to Brenya And Jacques... And as a result, for the first time ever with a book series I am saying, I think I've had enough. I love dark stories, they literally fuel my very soul, but even I have limits.  Perhaps it is as the others and not all is as it appears. But I cannot bring myself to look at another page after the sadistic upheaval that was this installment. Perhaps when "Corrupted" comes out I will revisit my emotional fatigue, but for now my soul cannot take another maddening word.