I still really enjoyed this book, but it did fall into some of the YA tropes I was so excited to see absent in the first one. (view spoiler)[Like even though she figured out he was trying to use her at the end, I was still rolling my eyes at the way Flora was fawning all over Axacaya the entire time. And then there was ...whatever is going on with her and Udo. I'm hoping there isn't going to be a real romantic plot there because she didn't seem very receptive of him asking her out. But still I'm just like can we not ever have a boy and a girl in a YA novel who are just friends and neither one of them is secretly in love with the other. Then there was the entire 'oh you're secretly also a Hydraadaa and are now the chosen one' thing. Which wasn't really handled badly but I was just sitting there like lmao of course she is. (hide spoiler)] It was still overall a very good book and I especially like how Flora isn't just magically good at everything and actually fails at things sometimes and gets help from other people. Also I'm very excited for the last book, the plot - again - seems like it will be kind of a cliche but it's so epic I don't think I'm going to mind