2.5 Stars 
 Although I did enjoy some parts of this book, there were to many thing that I just wasn't a fan of. 
 I enjoyed the first book and I was able to ignore or look past some of its faults in order to enjoy the story. But I wasn't able to do that with this book. 
 I found this book to be a bit slow and the characters were a bit more annoying than they were in the pervious book. Nadia was a ok character. She is noble and loyal. Even though her heart is in the right place and she tries to do the right thing, she always seems to screw things up. Badly. It was annoying that as the reader, I was aware of everything that was happening but I had to read page after page of the characters trying to understand what was going and failing to figure what Elizabeth was planning. It took Nadia a ridiculous amount to time to finally figure what her big plan was! She kept thinking she knew what the plan was, then immediately casts a spell, which backfire because she guessed Elizabeth's motives wrong. (view spoiler)[Most of the time her spells backfire because she somehow seemed to forget or ignore the fact that she was untrained and that Elizabeth has four hundred years of experience. (hide spoiler)] Nadia made way too many dumb mistakes throughout this book. (view spoiler)[ Her dumbest mistake was at the end when she swore her soul to The One Beneath because she was trying to save everyone! She just turned herself into a Sorceress without even knowing if there was a away out of it or a way to resist the darkness. (hide spoiler)] 
 The one character that I did enjoy reading about was Verlaine. So much has happened to her but she is still holding on and moving forward. She never loses sight of who she is. I related to her more than any of the other characters in this book. You just cant help liking her and feeling for her when discovers the magic that has been placed on her. 
 This book did end with a cliff-hanger but I don't think I am going to be picking up the third book anytime soon.