Better than the first book, but somehow dragged more. Maybe it was just because of the fact that novels told in third-person don't hold my attention as easily, but this thing took me a while to read. Over a week. Since my average is around two and a half days, that doesn't happen often. 
 Anyway. 
 Things are getting more tangled up, though I really didn't like what the author did to Mary Ann. Can we not have one normal human character? And the last few pages, I don't know what to do with those. I don't like where that's going. But I'll give the next one a shot once it comes out. Maybe the story will right itself.