I'm afraid this book suffered from second book syndrome. It was just okay. Which it hurts to say since I loved Red Queen so much and desperately wanted to give its sequel a five star, but it just fell flat. 
 Starting with its faults: The plot seemed repetitive. All that was happening over and over again was saving/recruiting these newbloods. It started to get boring when I felt like I was reading the same thing numerous times. Second thing, there were too many new characters showing up. It was hard for me to care about any of the new characters since there was so many. And we hardly got to know any of them. 
 I felt like the book redeemed itself in the end because of all the action/suspense that took place. The epilogue in particular really got me hooked on what is going to happen in the third book. I will still continue on with this series and hope the next books will be better than the sequel.