It took a lot for me to love this book but I've read it several times and have found the beauty in it. Here we find Rachaela again, bearing a child to the Scarabae, another strange child that is spirited away by an even more ancient part of the Scarabae family.

What I liked most about this book was the peeks into the family's past, ocean voyages and other tales are revealed. We see the truth in their sadness. I wish the final book could be given to the world as so many questions are left unanswered. Only a short story from an anthology "Outsiders: 22 Stories from the Edge", edited by Nancy Holder, gives us a hint at what was to be (the story is "Scarabesque or the Girl who broke Dracula". It's important to add this when you are done with Darkness, I. ( )