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Okay, I'll admit it. Going into this book I felt pretty sure I knew how it was going to play out -- this doesn't mean I was any less excited to see it play out, just that I felt like I knew one of the major plot points. Turns out, I didn't. Claire Legrand completely threw out the window a major plot point that I very incorrectly assumed would be apart of this book and threw me headfirst into something else entirely. This book starts out with one of the main characters', Rielle's, point of view. It starts two years from where her point of view actually begins following this weird sort of flashfoward, but I guess it's actually a flashback type of prologue. I still haven't figured out how to describe it since Rielle's point of view comes about a thousand years after Eliana's point of view. Okay now to what I assumed was going to be a major plot point -- who is the blood queen and who is the sun queen? I thought this was going to be a story where the reader is struggling along with the main characters to figure out who is who, but it's actually more of a mystery now that I think about it. You know from Eliana's point of view and the prologue WHAT has happened to Rielle -- you know the end point, but what the book is slowly unraveling is the HOW, the WHY behind the end point. Which in a way has captivated me more than the original plot point I assumed would be in this book. I can sometimes struggle with multiple point of views in a book -- I usually end up liking others way more than others, and struggle through some of the characters that I don't like as much. A problem that I didn't really have to deal with in this book. Rielle and Eliana are two completely different characters, with different problems and separate, distinctly different personalities. At times, so clearly different that I wondered how they would react if their situations were reversed. The pov switches left ample opportunities for slight cliffhangers at the end of one character's point of view -- which had me clamoring to keep reading. Overall, I feel like this book deftly switches between two very different girls in very different situations with flawless ease. After that ending, I am dying to see where these two strong females will end up next.