I was so ready for this after the ending of book 1, Spark. Now obviously I can’t tell you too much, because I don’t want to give any spoilers. But let me say how good this author is at leaving a trail of bread crumbs through her story to keep you going. There’s just enough that your curiosity is fed, but there’s always that little bit more you need to know, you have to know what happens next and how everyone is connected, and what in the characters’ pasts led them to where they are now and the decisions they’ve made up to this point. If I’d had a whole day to just sit and read, well, I’d have been done with this in less than a day, because I couldn’t put it down! Every bit I was like, okay, just to the end of this chapter, then we’d get there, and there was another one of those tidbits of info that I needed to know more and so I’d tell myself just one more chapter, and so on and so on. As I got closer to the end, I thought I could see what twist the story was taking and where we were going to be left to fight in the third and final book, Ashes, which doesn’t come out till April. But then, even with another little knowledge bomb dropped that I’d had a suspicion about, the twist the story took was not at all what I’d seen coming. And once again, I’m left hanging, and waiting, mostly patiently, for the next book and the conclusion to this dark, edge of your seat trilogy.

Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.