A lot of interesting things happened in this second book in the trilogy and in some aspects, it was just as good as the first one; but I'm a bit sad that some of the things I mentioned in my previous review don't apply to this book anymore. For one, I love romance as much as the next girl, but the way Gideon managed to play Gwyneth in this book - and the way she responded to it - felt a little disappointing. Love does strange things to a person, I get that, but I'd expected her to be stronger than this. Then there's the fact that she's keeping all these secrets from everyone all of a sudden when I was just so happy that she was finally a YA heroine who didn't unnecessarily keep secrets... It was a wonderful read, don't get me wrong, and I enjoyed it very much, but mainly these things disappointed me a little and make me feel like I can only give 4* now instead of 5*. I hope Emerald Green will manage to up my rating again, because there is so much potential here and this trilogy really does have a lot of strong points.