I may have said this a bit below, but I feel like Ronan is more a means to an end, really, than the actual character he is in book 8. I mean, even when Nita kisses him, half of her attention is on realizing that he's got the Defender inside (like Intel, but better). And then at the end he's rather infuriatingly--I don't want to say passive, maybe apathetic?--until almost too late, and then the book ends.

I understood this time, on reading, that what happens at the end is the answer to the Sidhe-queen's question, but that definitely went over my head in my first reading years ago, which has probably colored my impressions of the book, too.