I'm sticking with this series because I've set myself the challenge of reading through the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominees/winners, but two books in and it's just not doing anything for me. I feel I should like it, as it's got that mythological backdrop that so often appeals to me, and I've a mate who's very fond of the series and their taste is often a match for mine, but the most I can rise to is a very mild interest. This volume in particular has amazingly little plot, because most of the page space is given to endless character angst of some of the most irritating, unbelievable teens I've read in ages. As in The Raven Boys, Adam is the only one I can barely tolerate - Ronan and Gansey continue to feel as if they're plastic pieces of absolute ridiculousness, and Blue's hardly in this at all, and when she is it's more whining about her boring kissy destiny. I can't help but feel that I'd like this more if it were just Adam and Chainsaw the bird, who is one of the few things here I wholeheartedly enjoy.