I thought this was a really good book and advanced the story well. My only criticism is I am not a huge fan of novels being told between multiple perspectives. In this particular instance, it is really three stories being told in parallel. Celeana's plot line and Chaol/Damian, at least make sense. Those characters have been together the whole time and are now separated in different countries; however, there is a third plot line dealing with the witches. I actually enjoyed this part, but at this point it isn't really converging with the rest of the novel. I almost felt like this should have been a companion novella to tell the witches story. Other than that, I thought it was a nice sequel.