I may have liked this better than the first one, though it didn't take the angle I was hoping for. I was hoping this would be moving in a much more dire direction; it moved in an adventurous direction instead. Either way, Lila really came into her own in this book, much more than in book 1. In book 1, she came across as a superficial accessory to the story and here she had much more depth. I enjoyed it anyway.