I'm not too sure how I feel about the second installment of the Never Never trilogy... 
 After the cliffhanger ending the first installment, I was so excited to begin this one. The word 'frenzied' comes to mind. Honestly, book one left me A MESS: it was edge-of-your-seat reading at it's finest. And maybe it was this feverish excitement that led to the first portion of this book feeling a little flat for me. I delved straight into it with no break in between and there was none of the fast-paced plot and suspense-filled moments I had come to expect. The book just felt muted, somehow. It was all filler and no killer and it just felt like the whole thing could have really benefited from being 50 pages shorter (and it was only just over one hundred pages to begin with). Perhaps those who had not read the first book would have felt this a satisfactory 'filling-in' segment, but, as I had, it felt like unjustified waffle. 
 The second portion of the book completely redeemed itself, however and I was, once more, gripped with the extraordinary and electrifying plot. The same zealous consternation propelled me through the novel in the hopes of answering my myriad of questions. Alas, I was unsuccessful there (Hoover and Fisher really know how to make their readers suffer)! 
 Despite my complete unsatisfaction with the first portion of the book, I am in this for the long haul now and it is on to book three!