A good sequel, but for some reason not as engrossing as the first? I admit that could entirely be a Me thing. But I found that the descriptions of dinosaur-rider combat were new and exciting in the first book, and tedious repetition in this one. I found Melodia to not be treated seriously enough, for the whole book to be more vulgar than the first... Nitpicky things. And I found the central conflict to be too derivative of Game of Thrones. Can we say "White Walkers"?