I was lucky enough to get an ARC of this book through my job.

OMG I can't wait for this book to come out so I can discuss it with people. Essentially, if you loved the first one then I think you're going to love the sequel. The tone and pace felt the same to me but with more focus on the plot rather than the Gilmore Girls style banter (which I loved but wasn't quite as frequent). I kept getting frustrated because of conflicts in the book but the ending gave me relief. It's a solid ending to this duology.

My only complaint was the lack of screen time Ridel got. It seemed like Tricia Levenseller almost wanted to make this a trilogy and kind of set it up to do that in some spots but then had to quickly wrap it up. I would read a whole book of just Alosa & Riden or Alosa & her crew or...just Alosa being Alosa lol