Where book one was a mixing bowl of madness, crazy writing with randomness thrown in for good measure, book two is a journey into mind fucking. Whilst I am spare with profanity in my reviews and in life generally, I find when I do need decide to use them, it tends to give credence to the impact statement I am trying to make. 
 This was a big bold move on Lawrence's part. This type of writing reminds me a little of The First Law series where the first of the trilogy is really just a character build book and the following two give you the story and you love it, because you know the characters so well. In this book, Lawerence really starts to get deep and he takes you into the head of Jorge and as the story develops the dreams and visions really begin to become apparent how big the mind games are in this story. 
 I am listening to this on audio and the narration is first rate, wonderful emotion and the narrator has Jorge's young arrogance and cockiness down perfect. But the story does hop back and forth between now and four years earlier, so you have to concentrate more on what is going on than in the first book, but there is much to like in this. The character development is very good adn I was really happy with the way they are being scripted. The beginning is a bit slow and it needs a little coaxing along a bit, I was concerned at the character change happening quickly and inexplicably, but then we pop back four years and get a bit of info of an event and you begin to say "ahhhh, I see, but why?" 
 Lawrence still writes like he is making it up a bit as he goes along. There are moments of almost Duex Ex Machina that he gives you a page of warning, which he could have foreshadowed chapters or even in last book, but whilst it still feels like its being added whilst it's being written, it does feel like a 'live' story. It is hard for me to explain that, you feel like you are reading and something can come at you from no where and you are left shaking your head wondering how many left fields does Lawrence have. 
 All in all, I really enjoyed the story and couldn't wait to get back into it. Even if it meant flattening my battery on phone so that I could listen on my last flight. 
 Going to go straight into book three and looking forward to hearing what happens next.