It had been a hot minute since I'd read the Red Queen, so it took me a while to get into this. I think that this second book is like most second installments in trilogies. It's setting up for a big finale in book 3. I liked it, but there were a few parts that I had a hard time getting through. I definitely predicted some of the things that were going to happen, but some things totally caught me off guard. Some of the actions during the last few chapters definitely made me emotional. The ending of the epilogue was SUCH a cliffhanger. I definitely need to read book 3 now.