This is a really short review but oh my god this series is just terrible! Unfortunately, It's as awful as it is interesting and that's why I even bothered continuing with this series. I know I rated 4 stars for the first book but my actual rating was 3.5 stars. This series is filled with insta loves that are terribly written. It feels as if the writer doesn't even want to bother with romance building and just jumps to the big "I love you" which obviously must not be that big of a deal to the author if she thinks it's unnecessary to build up so many relationships. I was seriously in complete awe at how far she jumps ahead! (view spoiler)[ and oh my god the amount of guys who are enamored with Cleo? Ridiculous. The author could have at least tried to make the romance in this book believable (hide spoiler)] 
 Also there's never been one moment in this book that I was not so annoyed and bothered by a character and that really affected my judgement on this book. Be it Magnus(he was more bearable than the first book but I still don't enjoy his presence) or Lysandra( I loved her in the beginning but she got too strong headed at one point but towards the end I liked her again) or Lucia or anyone else they all pissed me off. There were a lot of new characters in this book and I would be lying if I said that I did not enjoy that. They added more substance to the book and allowed for more plot twists and betrayals which I thought was fun. 
 What was not so fun however was seeing so many deaths. To be frank, it does not even cause me grief anymore. We saw in the last book that Morgan Rhodes isn't shy when it comes to death and while I thought it was great in the first book, I was not as affected as I was in the last book. 
 Overall, this book was definitely not as fun as I'd hoped and I will not be continuing with the series no matter how much it interested me.