V. E. Schwab is a monster. She has ripped my heart out.
But I'm actually, sadly, going to write this: I was disappointed. All along I was longing for more.

At the end of the day, the idea behind this is great, I love monstruous humans and humane monsters. The charactersare just as great as in the first one, and my emotions are f*d up.

Here are the things that bugged me:
- The first half I didn't particularly like: 4 chapters per POV before switching (that did get sorted in the 2d Verse), not much of relevance to our story, just get back to what we want.
- Characters introduced we never saw again.
- Didn't like those poem things.
- Although I understand why we got Sloan's POV and it was at times interesting, we didn't need it THAT much.

Also:
I used to follow Schwab on Twitter whenshe was writing it and I could feel the pain she went through trying to write it. She was late and could'nt get things right. She tweeted about it so much I unfollowed her because it pained me to see that one of my most anticipated releases was so painful to write. And that pain, I think, is felt when reading the book.
Schwab's books are normally great in the way things are revealed as we go along. Here, we just got paragraphs of explanations, of new terms which were being used particularly, instead of letting us find out about them as we read.
Following that idea of simpleness, one major element that comes up near the end

Spoiler

Kate understanding what was happening thanks to a vision

I found pretty cheap to be honest.

I just remembered how fed up the writer was with writing it and I could feel it in the way it felt like it was quickly done and dusted.