Honestly, I enjoyed the book. I enjoyed getting to know the backstory of Leck who is a character from the first book.

My biggest issue comes from the fact that there are a lot of relationships of men with teenage girls. I understand that this was some thing that happened in the past, but this is not something we need to re-create in our fantasy novels. Especially fantasy novels that are marketed as YA. It sends this message that if an older man is interested in a 14 or 15 or 16-year-old girl that it makes them special. This is not a message I’m OK with endorsing.

Other than that, I enjoy the plot and getting to see how this geographic location is different from the one in the first book. There were times where the characters almost felt, copied and pasted from the first book but overall it wasn’t a bad read.