I'd do nothing but reading if I could (ok, maybe eat some great food, buy some fancy shoes between two books...oh, and spend some quality time with the gorgeous guy I married while I am on reading-break anyway...)
It does resemble some very successful UF series - especially with the "mysterious ancestry, expert swordwoman who dates the Mega-Alpha-Cat-Shifter" - ring some bells?
The whole traumatic back-ground story was a bit much - overblown.
But it was a good read.