I absolutely adore this series and this book was undeniably better than the Bone Witch. So why, you might ask, am I rating it lower? Because it took me over a month to get through it and for some reason it just didn’t hook me in the same way.

However. The story has matured past the relatively basic magic school plot of the first book and I’m always here for a good enemies to lovers romance which finally came to fruition in this one. The future portions of the chapters contained more plot, whereas those parts of the first book contained far less of interest.

On the other hand, and maybe I noticed this more because it took me so much longer to read it, but the writing itself kind of bothered me this time around? There were numerous times where it just felt awkward, something I never noticed in The Bone Witch, but ah well. It happens, I guess. It just kind of felt like this book was less thoroughly edited.