I have to run out so I don't have much time to respond but... I completely agree that the supernatural, which is the core of this series, was just jammed in the second half and it just seemed disconnected from the rest of the plot. It's so frustrating because a lot of her plots have potential to explore, in detail, the interesting world she has created with broad strokes, i.e. the political and social situation of a vastly changed world when monsters were given political rights (kind of like the after the civil war (U.S.) when African Americans suddenly had rights in the South, but without the actions of the North during the 10-year Reconstruction), and the conflict of Jason controlling his wolf while confronting his father who is probably the root of many of his buttons, etc. These ideas, at least some of them, raised at some point during the series are not developed to a real plot or character evolvement except on a most basic level and even then, are not followed through.