The next morning, Diana goes for a run.  On her way back in her building, the doorman stops her and says that she had a visitor the previous night, but he couldn’t let her in because of the campus policy.  It was an Australian woman.  Diana shrugs it off and goes up to her apartment…

Diana decides that Matthew is fishy and she’s going to research him on the internet.  No, really: On the Internet, below an unrelated link to a murder mystery and the unavoidable hits from social-networking sites, a string of biographical listings looked promising Not even Google or something, just ‘on the Internet.’  Did she just open…

At some point I’d kicked off my right slipper, leaving my foot trailing over the edge of the bed. Aren’t you just so glad you know that?  Wasn’t that just so vital to the story?  Doesn’t that tell you so much about Diana’s character? What’s that you say?  It’s completely pointless and pure fluff and…

POV switch to Matthew.  He’s sitting on the roof, spying on Diana, and thinking that she looks nervous, and her nerves make her look younger and ’accentuated her vulnerability.‘  Great, so we get a side helping of the fetishized damsel in distress on top of the rest of the failcake that is this book. Then…

It’s Mabon in the story’s timeline, and “witches” all over Oxford are celebrating.  And by “witches,” she means the Wiccans, specifically the group of Wiccans that the chick from last chapter invited her to.  Part of me wants to think “but she’s still using the term ‘witch’ and hasn’t brought up ‘Wicca’ in since the…