The second installment of the Into the Shadows series is lukewarm at best. The story of Persephone and her father has such an amazing potential but as her day progresses (because everything takes place in a day) I immediately got a sense of the dad's fate before they even boarded the helicopter.

Maybe it needed more by way of the crushing suffocation of having no body and hence no closure for the lost husband/father. Maybe a page with an interaction with the mother - a little more than the text message she received.

The final act is predictable in its attempt to NOT be a hero academy and in its attempt to be different visually to Xaviers School for the Gifted, Umbrella Academy and all the other YA/NA school for heroes/magic tropes.

It was ....nice