Ugh. 
 I'm actually surprised my eyes didn't roll out of my head while reading this. Which is really disappointing since I liked book 1 well enough that I thought the series had potential. But this book landed me so firmly in the land of "oh my god just stop I DO NOT CARE" that I think I'm probably just going to read spoilers for Horde and call it a day. 
 Listen. I get what you're trying to do here. But I am so sodding tired of the whole 'the world ended and we've reverted back to a simpler way of life included antiquated gender roles' dystopian schtick. Like. I get it. It's not a huge stretch. It's actually fairly reasonable to be honest. Because people are terrible. But I can suspend my disbelief long enough to accept your version of how the world ended, but you can't expect me suspend them past shoving people back into neat little gendered boxes? 
 The worst part of all of it is the whole "but I'm not like other girls" bull that inevitably surfaces as a result. And this is no exception. Deuce is certainly not like the women in Salvation and with good reason. But the strife and conflict that springs up as a result is so tiresome. Oh of course she's not going to be accepted and driven out eventually. And of course we have to vilify other women in order to do so. 
 It just continues to perpetuate all this nonsense. The whole "strong female character" trope. There are other ways for women to be strong and women who prefer a more traditional role don't need to be vilified because of it either. The book tries a bit to show this with Teagan sometimes, but it is far too little too late. 
 And this doesn't even touch on my problems with the STILL REALLY UNNECESSARY STUPID LOVE TRIANGLE. And how annoyed I was with Deuce for all her back and forth with herself about trying to reconcile being a "girl" and a "huntress". Which, otherwise might've been compelling but it was mostly just tiresome again. And then all the trauma or whatever with Fade. I just. Give up. 
 The book still suffers from pacing issues--it glosses over what should be given more time and stretches out the unnecessary bits. As interested as I might be to see what actually is going on with the Freaks and how it might all be resolved, I'm not reading an even longer book 3 to do it.