I hate leaving reviews for things I didn't finish, but I do owe Amazon a review for this book. Readers beware: I gave up about halfway through this book, but not because it was awful. 
 What do I mean by that? By "not awful" I mean that this book has a lot of things in it that many readers will love. It has many of the same things that I liked from the first book, such as vampires, weird plagues, and exploration of cities long abandoned and ransacked by the plague. There's a lot of action-filled scenes, so it's not really like there were many lulls in the read. My only big complaint was that I couldn't quite feel the chemistry between Allison and Zeke in TEC like I could in the previous entry. Another reviewer referred to him as a "wet rag" and at times I kind of agreed with her. Don't get me wrong, Zeke has reasons to be how he is. I just didn't really get into him in this book. 
 I just can't figure out why I didn't like this. I got about halfway through the book before I finally just gave up and decided that this will just be a series that I'll never finish. It might be because I'm starting to get a little tired of dystopian YA books, so I'll hold out for the hope that I'll eventually want to read this in the future. I just felt like a huge outsider reading this, as I kept wondering what it was that everyone else was seeing in this. 
 If you were half-hearted on the first book, I'd recommend getting this from the library. If you loved the first one then you'll probably be one of the many who liked this and this will be a "must buy". However if you think for even a second there's a chance you might end up being "meh" over it, I recommend getting it from the library as well. 
 I'm giving this three stars because while I didn't like it, I can see where it was well crafted and would give a lot of joy to other readers. However, I can't quite muster up the enthusiasm to give it much more than that. 
 (Reader copy provided by Amazon Vine)