A few notes - I'll rewrite later. 
 YA fantasy. 
 There is a bit more action this time around, as well as a bit of romance, but it is the slow-developing kind. 
 Lots of politics. Digger/Celyn is a thief, but it's not as much a heist book as a ferret out info and hide book. I still really got into it and it kept my attention. 
 In another series, you would see the battles, the continuation of the fight started in book 1, but not here. Here we have a character who chose not to take to the battlefield. THen gets involved in her own way, but still, DIgger isn't a character who likes to stick her neck out too far for other folks. 
 It is a different, slower pace than most of the YA fantasy I read. 
 Cwalo is probably my favorite character. 
 The ending was def unexpected. Now I need book 3.