A review by msulli22
Spy Glass by Maria V. Snyder

1.0

Well... that was creepy, and not at all in a good way. Any entertainment the plot offered was mostly undone by the romantic plot line with Devlen. I consider myself pretty open-minded, but romanticizing a woman falling in love with a man whose LEAST abusive crime against her was rape... I mean, in previous books, he helped the guy who murdered her sister! He kidnapped her! TORTURED her... Like actual military-grade torture. And great, he got off the magic voodoo drugs that "made" him do those things and got reformed. Her forgiveness of him is admirable, if far-fetched, to be honest (did I mention the murder of her sister and weeks of horrific torture?). But romantic and sexual love? Seriously? If I thought the author was really going to go there, I would have stopped reading, but I didn't think she would really go through with that plot point. I figured it was some clumsy attempt at an exploration of forgiveness and the relationship between abusers and victims. I really didn't think she'd actually go there. Ugh, I feel disgusted.