My second Hollows book and, sadly, probably my last. The premise of the books have so much promise, but in the end they are only Janet Evanovich books in a fantasy world. And I stopped reading those when Stephanie Plum kept making the same dumb mistakes. And Rachel Mariana Morgan has hit that point two books in. To top it all off, the character development is terrible. For example, Rachel is completely nasty to Character X and clearly dislikes him. But then they end up at a baseball game together. And these mixed messages are present in every relationship in the book. We're told Rachel likes a person, but her actions say otherwise (poor Nick). We're told Rachel dislikes a person but it is completely baffling as to why. The books thus end up being disjointed and frustrating reads and so I am done.