I must say, this book did not awaken the usual madness to finish a series. Books hardly do that to me anymore. Yet this book had me completely hooked, and made me forget the environment around me and yet it did not make my heart race once. 
 Kristin Cashore has quite another way altogether of captivating an audience. This book did not make my pulse race but in a way, quite made me forget I was actually reading a book and not actually there. It had me hooked, in a rare way of books of this genre have. I really liked this book and I must say it was very good. 
 If I be honest, I have not read the first book at all and honestly? I didn't even realize I had been reading the second book of a series until I came back here to write a preview and mark it as read. My reaction was like, I have been reading a second book? Oh.