I ADORE THIS BOOK. I had so many hopes and expectations for this book, and it exceeded every one of them. No one can deliver a finale like CD Reiss. Have no doubt. Her series go out with an emotional roar - not a whimper. So many surprises. Not all of them good. But they were all right and fitting. I had to jump start my heart more than once, and there were tears. LOTS OF TEARS. It's a story that rips out your heart and gives you back something better. It really affected me intensely - at least as much as Coda if not more. It's a three box of tissue book.I half kiddingly explain this book as a totally sexed up version of The Missing Piece meets the Big O with gunplay. It's as simple and complex as that. Finding yourself and finding someone to share the journey.I hesitate to say that these characters are well crafted. It goes far beyond that. Antonio and Theresa are organic, complex and genuine. There is no sense of an author constructing a character - fulfilling a plot driven checklist or filling a hole in a cast. Theresa and Antonio feel like real people who feel intensely, love unabashedly (and sometimes stupidly) and drag you through the emotional wringer right along with them. And the dialogue. It, in turn, crackles, whispers and croons in your ear, and slices through your heart. And there is so much to the rest of Spin and Theresa's journey. They each learn to accept their true self, and in doing that, they complete each other - it's a beautiful, bold, and inventive take on soul mates finding their way to one another. Don't let the explosions and mob wars fool you. There's a reverence to their feral, crazed, incendiary sex life that is, in turn exhilarating and heartbreaking. And amidst all the Catholic imagery, most of it coupled with their intense love and desire for one another, there is this whisper of the pagan queen of heaven and her consort. They are, in so many ways, the power couple of ancient myth. The undercurrents swirling through the sacrifice and fatalism driving their relationship are brilliant, haunting and affecting. It adds a weight to their relationship you rarely see in this genre. At their core, Spin and Theresa harken back to the classic, tragic couples that haunt history and literature but they're fresh and modern and SEXY. REALLLY SEXY. Rule has guaranteed that The Corruption Series will be one you'll read over and over. In my heart, Rule gets a shower of stars but here I'm limited to the five brightest in the sky.