I totally agree with your comments on the first book there. I wanted more character development, and that first scene in which Senna has sex with Aenor really pinged me badly (from both directions; I would have found it a lot more realistic if Aenor was a little less eager to be fucked in that kind of situation, and actually, it would have been interesting to see Senna balked, and how he would react then).

I did think that the plan put them both - not at risk, so much, as that it was clearly going to end in both their deaths, and I wanted to see a little more of that grim emotion in Senna's thoughts.

But yeah, it needed to be longer, with more plot and less rape. Um.