The next day, in the library, Peter sits in the same room as Diana and that freaks her out.  So she goes to make sure that Miriam is still watching over her, because I guess now she trusts Miriam for some reason.  Not at all sure when that happened or why, since the vampires haven’t…

Diana calls home to talk to her aunt Sarah.  Oh, no, that’s not right.  First we get her entire morning routine, then Diana calls home to talk to Sarah.  Because when have we ever bothered to skip even a moment of the fascinating life of Diana Bishop? Sarah and Em grill her about her activities…

We’re in Matthew’s POV again, and he’s driving out to Scotland to visit a daemon friend named Hamish Osborne. Like most creatures, they’d been taught to fear each other and were uncertain how to behave. Oddly enough, though we have oddles of backstory for every random shop clerk that passes through the novel, we don’t…

That evening Matthew picks her up for yoga.  “Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn’t want him to have. “Don’t tempt me,” he murmured, shutting me inside. The hair on my neck rose slightly as the implication of his words sank in.…

The next night, Diana wakes up from a nightmare.  …and then goes back to sleep.  What was the point of the nightmare, you ask?  Well, who knows.  It could be that this author is being paid by the word.  It could be that someone mistakenly told her that doorstoppers are hallmark of ‘high literature.’  Maybe…