First the good:  The story is quite interesting and pulled me in right away.  It was in first person so if you don't like that style, you may not like this book.  I like how the first person went back and forth between Viola and Duke.  The story was internally-consistent and had a few surprises for me (which I won't spoil for you).  I had a hard time putting the book down when it was 1 am and I was about 3/4 through the book. That is always the sign of an engrossing story for me. Also, I LIKED the characters which is always important to me and I liked how they were fleshed out. For some strange reason, it reminded me a big of the "Fever" series by Karen Marie Moning. I'm not quite sure why as the story is very different but somehow it had the same flavor as that series. The end of the book indicates that the sequel, The Chaos Child, is coming out in Winter of 2010.  As long as it is a reasonable price, I will likely buy the sequel to Daugher of Deception as I can't wait to see what happens next.