I liked this book and the third book better than the first, but I have a really hard time rating them all as the series as a whole is so good! I loved this book for the dynamic between Jude and Cardan but also, SO MANY PLOT TWISTS. It got to a point where I couldn't put the book down and I finished it in one sitting. If you read the first book and did not like it much, I thoroughly recommend finishing the series because it gets better.