I haven't read the fourth book yet. Will eventually, when I feel like it. But even before you said, I'd guessed we were getting no real resolution.

I was saying to someone above that I have a feminist reader's interest in the cross-genre work she's talking about. I've been saying for a while that romance as women's literature gets denegrated a lot, including by me, which only means we need smart women to be writing it. And yet . . . underwhelmed.