This book was ... hmm .. a little? more enjoyable than the first of the series, which I had to force myself to finish. It was still relatively slow and dragged quite a bit, but the set up towards the end was much more enticing and set up some interesting conflict for the remainder of the series. But the writing is so dreadful that I'm not sure I can push past that for a semi-interesting story. I would have loved deeper characterization - it felt like every male character was a slightly shifted version of the same thing. I’ll probably continue this series .. UPDATE: I don't think I can make it through book #3, sorry guys.