This book was just as good as the first one (Becoming Calder) - not better, nor worse. The book started of strong, and you saw Eden "discovering herself" sans Calder, and the moment, she discovers there was an "artist" that painted desert springs, my heart was thumping with her, knowing it was Calder back from the "dead"...(he was never dead - the audience knew that already.) 
 Their reunion picked up basically where the first book left off. 
 Calder has a girlfriend, but he literally dumped her ass overnight, and became attached to the hip with Eden. Which disappointed me a little bit. I didn't want them to slip into right where they left off. I wanted some angst. Some slow rediscovery. 
 However, the angst came in other ways, like Calder and Eden discovering how Hector became so wretched and started a cult. It was so messed up. It was fascinating to read to the latter stages, just to find out Hector's tale alone. He was literally raising the son, of the man who murdered his family. No wonder, he wanted Calder dead. Back then, I thought he was very unreasonable, but to find out a deeper motive was...interesting. 
 I still had a little detachment to the romance, like I had in the first book, but I did like a few moments, that genuinely touched me. However I did not cry or laugh once. No emotion from me :) 
 But still a good two-part series, for the writing alone.