An excellent sequel indeed! Makes me want to go out and get me some red gloves to parade around in!

Cassel is definitely one of my favorite male characters ever! He makes wrong choices, a lot, but he's so dang likable—I want to squeeze his cheeks! Of course, Lila got worked in the previous book, so Cassel doesn't know if he can trust himself around her because her feelings for him he doesn't believe them to be real. It's a mess of feelings, and an addicting one!

Also his brother, Phillip, is dead, so it's quite the mystery to figure out how he ended up that way. And the freaking ending! Another cliffhanger to where I have to read the next book! Loved it! And the magic system is just so cool!