„ i am surprised to find you doing something as unproductive as reading.“
„reading is not unproductive.“

i really enjoy this series and how different all the characters are, how some are completely ruthless on their believes and how some always try to be their best what ever that might mean.

the writing is so easy but not simple or dumbed down at all but the two books so far are easy one sitting readings since it’s such an addicting writing and plotting that i just keep turning page after page.


that all being said i was a bit disappointed in this book especially compared to the first book.

i enjoyed getting greys point of view and i liked the new characters well enough... but overall this book felt very much like the typical second book in a trilogy where everything is a clearly a build up for something that is coming but it’s not happening in this book. we just get the clear path that all characters are on and are left hanging with how it all will end for them.


i wish we could have also gotten harpers point of view because that would certainly added a nice view into a different side of what’s going on. as is i said i enjoyed getting greys point of view since he is a very interesting character.
but getting the view points of characters that are at the same place for 60% of the book instead of at least adding a few points into the book where we get another view and what’s going on with the other characters from book one would have just added something to this that i felt was missing.


also i was highly disappointed that harper choose to stay with an abuser instead of helping someone that clearly needs her help more and i don’t really it fits with her character from book one at all!

and not because she didn’t loyal or sees someone that needs help and turks- her back but because she is strongly against treating people wrongly and would fight against that as she did in book one.
sie seeing her in this book more or less standing by didn’t work for me.
sure you can love a person and want them to be better and hope to help understand they are wrong in what they are doing so that they can do better going forward.
but at the same time, there is a line, a point where a person should make a clear statement of “do that and i am gone because you went too far!”
and that is what i was missing from harper in this book.
but again that could have easily been added by giving a view into harpers moments and explain why she chose to stay and what she was doing with that choice.


also i did NOT like the epilogue/last chapter! at all!
i always HATE it when this happens in books or movies because to me it’s such an over used and too simple and just overall an easy way out of it.

why reuse a villain? this book didn’t need lillian to come back at all! it didn’t make sense to me at all, especially with rhey having such a fear for magic and then we get that scene where he basically agrees to work with the person responsible for his fear?
how does that make sense?
especially since the other magic user is the person he trusted the most before harper came along?
there are just soooooo much about the epilogue that made no sense at all to me!

why not use someone else?
why always the same characters?
why not just let someone be done in one book and move on?
especially since in this book there is enough going on to be interesting without that specific trope.

i would have loved to see more of the struggle between the brothers! and they entire plot point would have been more then enough to carry another book in my option!

„choices are never easy. there are good and bad options, but t most dangerous is to not make any choice at all.“

all in all this was good but not as great as the first book and i really hope that book three will go back to being as book one was for me, but i have some doubts since the ending of this book leaves me very skeptical.