Dark Triumph His Fair Assassin Trilogy

After reading the first book in the trilogy, and enjoying it immensely, I had planned to skip the second because I found the character of Sybella so singularly unlikeable. But the library had Dark Triumph available as an ebook download and my curiosity won out. Thankfully.

Learning Sybella's backstory made her into a fleshed-out character and her interactions with the Beast of Waroch made her almost endearing. The story's political intrigues were insufficiently recapped from the first volume but pacing and action, not to mention romantic subplot, left little to be desired.