Only three stars? Yeah.
I do love these characters and the world is getting even more interesting, but not much happened.
What we got in Chainbreaker was mostly backstories, explanations of how this world works, and setting up what should be a great third and final book.

Hear me out: I'm the kind of reader who can enjoy a story even if the action isn't great, or if the plots don't interest me that much, so long as I love the characters.
For that reason, I'm really into this story.
The story of Danny and Colton (and Daphne) and clock towers and clock spirits and the magical elements brought to this world. They are so interesting and fit perfectly into the kind of story aspects I love without me knowing that I loved them.

HOWEVER... I really did not find the development of this book in itself as good as I wanted it to be. (I will point out that I wasn't in the best mental headspace at the time I was reading so it may have playd a part in the underwhelming)
* Danny and Colton aren't in the same place for 90% of the book... and are left doing dumb things.
* I loved Daphne in book one and I was very pleased to see she got a bigger role in book two... even if I wasn't as impressed by her as I was expecting to be.
* The new characters are somewhat interesting... just not enough for me to care for them as much as the characters we already know. Small exception for those guys in the air that I feel are going to become some of my favourite characters...
* Discovering more about India and how they look after towers was a strong point of this book!

I just didn't feel like anything met the expectations I had - but the story still has the potential to meet them. Things were a little looked over, or just said or done without much detail.
Onto book number three now to get more out of this world, out of these characters, AND GET MY BABIES BACK TO SAFETY BECAUSE THAT ENDING AS NOT AND ENDING.

(Honestly, someone ripped the last pages out, right...?)