The Curse Breakers picks up about a week after the events in The Curse Keepers. Ellie is torn over the loss of her father and still reeling from Collin's betrayal. On top of all of that she's been having terrible nightmares every night. She knows she can't count of Collin to help since he's aligned himself with Okeus, so she's determined to figure out a way to send the evil spirits back to popogusso on her own. The threats from the spirits are getting worse as they get stronger. The mark Collin placed on Ellie's back is almost gone. She's running out of time and protection. 
 I really like the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke and how Denise Grover Swank tied that legend into the Curse Breakers. I like the new revelations that Ellie makes about her family. I'm very interested to see how everything ties together. 
 What I didn't really care for was Ellie. I understand that everything was just thrown at her a few weeks ago, but it really shows. She's running around like crazy. Instead of this endearing Ellie to me, I feel like it makes her look more inept. She's got so many problems chasing after her that she doesn't know where to turn so she ends up making unsmart decisions and not fully thinking things through. She tells so many lies and half-truths that she doesn't remember what she says and will always let something else slip out. For someone who was just betrayed by a person she cared about, Ellie's pretty quick to forget. She meets David a professor that Ellie feels can help her with the Native American gods and almost immediately has feelings for him and ive versa. I would have enjoyed the book a lot more if maybe this one time not every guy Ellie runs into is attracted to her in some way and she them. 
 I was also tired of all the evasion. Collins hides information from Ellie to "protect her" because "the less she knows the better she will be". Reality Check: she's already in the thick of things. Not having all the information will only make things worse not better. Because of Collin's evasiveness, Ellie will then keep information from him as a kind of payback. Whether they like it or not they will be involved with each other at the very least until all the spirits are taken care of. They need to work together. 
 While the characters annoyed me pretty much throughout the entire book, the story as a whole is interesting and the only thing that will keep me coming back.